Principal Data Architect

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa NTT Ltd. Full time

NTT is a leading global IT solutions and services organisation that brings together people, data and things to create a better and more sustainable future.

In today’s ‘iNTTerconnected’ world, connections matter more now than ever. By bringing together talented people, world-class technology partners and emerging innovators, we help our clients solve some of the world’s most significant technological, business and societal challenges.

With people at the heart of our success, NTT is committed to attracting and growing the best talent and providing an environment where everyone feels they can belong and their contribution matters.

**Want to be a part of our team?**

**Working at NTT**

**Key Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Serve as an advisor to senior business management on business and information integration strategies
- Evaluate internal functions, business development strategies and IT processes and suggest improvements
- Create business architecture models to reflect the organization's strategies and goals and create and implement business visions and goals
- Responsible for cataloguing, developing, coordinating, communicating, maintaining, and enforcing overall enterprise architecture models, representations, initiatives, capabilities, and components to adequately perform the organization's business and technology activities
- Suggest ideas to reduce costs in IT and business leadership
- Provide business architecture and systems processing guidance
- Ensure the efficiency, security, and support of the organization's goals
- Creating methods for compliance architecture, such as data storage, metadata management, and change control
- Provide consultancy in business process analysis and design, and service delivery, particularly with respect to the use of information, trends, and directions
- Provide architectural leadership in the resolutions of cross-programme, and cross-project architecture issues
- Update and maintain key enterprise architecture deliverables
- Conduct ongoing research and assessment of new analysis approach for potential use within the organisation

**Knowledge, Skills and Attributes**:

- Ability to integrate big data analytics into the existing IT landscape
- Knowledge of architectural methodologies and frameworks to be able to implement strategies effectively
- Be the expert in IT and computer networking to ensure the organization’s architecture
- Ability to stay on top of the latest trends and technologies that may improve any business
- Excellent communication skills to work with various leaders throughout the organization to support the goals and objectives of the organization
- Excellent technical, analytical and project management skills
- Display the ability to develop and publish white papers
- Possess the ability to engage with internal and external audiences in a clear, effective, and appropriate manner.
- Display the ability to collaborate and facilitate an understanding of technical issues
- Display knowledge of business strategic processes and information technology delivery
- Possess knowledge of information technology governance
- Display effective interviewing, data collection and synthesis skills
- Possess proficient IT governance and operations, technology components and modelling for IT investment knowledge
- Display good project and program management planning and organizational skills
- Demonstrate problem analysis and solution formulation skills
- Demonstrate systems thinking skills

**Academic Qualifications and Certifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Technology or Computer Science or related
- Required certification(s) such as TOGAF / ITIL/ COBIT

**Required Experience**:

- Proven experience as an Principal Data Architect gained within a similar matrixed information technology environment
- Proven experience in system architecture
- Experience in data strategy
- Strong experience of Azure data lake

**What will make you a good fit for the role?**

Focus on this role will be on our Services Data and Data Management strategies. Knowledge of data products and implementation on Azure will be essential, along with a robust knowledge of data structuring, processing and analytics.

**Equal Opportunity Employer**

NTT is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, veteran status, or other protected category

**A career at NTT means**:

- Being part of a **global pioneer -** where you gain exposure to our Fortune 500 clients and world-leading global technology partners and work with a network of over 40,000 smart and diverse colleagues across 57 countries, delivering services in over 200 countries.
- Being at the forefront of **cutt

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