IT Architect

**Job Advert Summary**:
(Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.

**Key Performance Areas**:

- **Application & Technology Architecture Strategy**:

- **Application & Technology Architecture Blueprint and Roadmap**:

- Work with stakeholders to design the architecture blueprint and roadmap.
- Develop architecture descriptions, perform gap analysis, and align architecture with strategic objectives.
- **Application & Technology Governance**:

- Collaborate with IT divisions to ensure goals are met, and adopt best practices for business architecture.
- **Cyber Security Strategy**:

- Develop and monitor the cybersecurity strategy.
- Align security architecture with organizational goals and adopt best practices for security frameworks.
- **Security Architecture Blueprint and Roadmap**:

- Develop the enterprise security model, create security architecture patterns, and perform gap analysis.
- Implement security controls and roadmap for systems protection.
- **Security Solutions and Migration Plans**:

- Identify security opportunities and constraints.
- Develop migration plans and ensure readiness for security transformation.
- **Stakeholder Engagement**:

- Create and execute engagement strategies with stakeholders.
- Map and manage stakeholder relationships, addressing risks, maximizing opportunities, and facilitating decision-making

**Preferred Minimum Education and Experience**:
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in in Information Systems/ Information Technology / Computer Science or related field
TOGAF 9/10 Certification and Enterprise Architecture

Minimum Experience:
8 - 10 years Enterprise Architecture Leadership
8 - 10 years Doman Architect for Data and Business

**Critical Competencies**:
Knowledge of Land Bank Act
Protection of Personal Information Act.
Knowledge of PFMA

**Additional Requirements**:
Enterprise Architecture Leadership
Solution Architecture
IT Portolio Managemet & optimisation
Technology Modernisation
Doman Architect for Data, Application, Technology and Security