Retail Enterprise Architect

1 week ago

Cape Town, South Africa Capital Edge Recruitment Full time

As an experienced Retail Professional, the Enterprise Architect for Retail is responsible for shaping the architecture strategy for the Retail Domain in collaboration with Senior IT and Business Leadership in support of the company strategy while aligning to the architectural principles and standards.

**Job Objectives**
- Influencing and inspiring strategic stakeholders to champion technology investments in the Retail Domain
- Identifying strategic technology imperatives in support of responsible domains
- Formulating strategy, architectures, and implementation roadmaps
- Championing the Enterprise Architecture Retail Capability

**Qualifications**
- Computer Science/Logistics/Architecture/Software degree or equivalent science degree (essential)

**Experience**
- Architecture consulting with CxO level executives for large enterprise programs
- Shaping IT strategy and roadmaps and developing, managing, and implementing technology roadmaps and portfolios
- Architecting large complex systems within the Retail Domain
- Participating in RFx technology acquisition processes
- Contributing Architecture expertise to Retail Programmes, Projects and Products from business analysis, architectures, system analysis and design through development, testing, implementation, and production
- Successfully leading architects and technical teams to implement and integrate enterprise level solutions in a complex multi-cloud environment
- Collaborating with program managers, project managers, and business stakeholders to delivery technologies
- Retail industry experience with an understanding of Retail business processes. (desirable)
- IT industry

**Knowledge and Skills**
- Formulating technology strategy, architectures, and implementation roadmaps
- Creating Enterprise, Domain, and Solution level Architectures and Architecting and designing Technology Platforms, Storage Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, and Cloud Native Solutions
- Strategy frameworks and best practices such as TOGAF, ITIL, ISO 27001, CobiT, Balanced Scorecard, etc. (desirable)
- Cloud Certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Expert knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, PaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics (desirable)
- Demonstrated ability to influence and consult to Chief Operations Officer level while providing thought leadership to sponsors/stakeholders in solving problems
- Ability to influence and persuade others, as well as handle difficult negotiations requiring a well-developed sense of strategy
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) with strong presentation and facilitation skills
- Strong interpersonal skills, customer-centric attitude, ability to deal with cultural diversity
- Leadership capacity to provide advice and guidance in a timely fashion to operationalize strategic plans, manage complex bids, and coach staff simultaneously
- Leadership capabilities to facilitate teamwork to achieve business goals while promoting a culture of common purpose
- Ability to work as a self-starter, take initiative, and execute tasks with mínimal supervision

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