Enterprise Cloud Architect

1 month ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Santam Full time
Job Title: Enterprise Cloud Architect

A great career opportunity exists in Santam's Business Information Technology Services team (BITS) in the Western Cape or Gauteng for an Enterprise Cloud Architect.

The purpose of an enterprise architect is to align Santam's business strategy and objectives with its information technology infrastructure.

Being involved in the complete Santam landscape, the enterprise architect ensures that Santam's systems, processes, and resources are effectively designed, implemented, and managed to support the overall business goals.

In effect, the enterprise architect bridges the gap between business and technology allowing Santam to achieve its long-term goals by leveraging appropriate cloud solutions.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Analyse Santam business strategy and translate it into an IT strategy that supports the business vision.
  • Design and develop enterprise-wide technology architectures that encompass various aspects, including business processes, applications, infrastructure, and security, but with a focus on cloud solutions.
  • Establish and enforce architecture and design governance processes, principles and standards to ensure consistency, interoperability, and compliance across IT projects and systems.
  • Oversee the alignment of IT initiatives with the enterprise architecture and facilitate decision-making regarding technology investments.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, including business leaders, project managers, developers, and other architects, to understand their requirements and constraints.
  • Evaluate cloud solutions, emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices to inform decision-making regarding technology adoption, modernization, and retirement.
  • Assess the impact of new cloud business solutions on the information technology landscape.
  • Work as a team member with Development Managers and other technical staff, to ensure the application is implemented according to requirements.
  • Identification of potential risks / issues and give input into risk plan.
  • Active engagement with technology partners to deliver an integrated solution across platforms and across cloud solution partners.
Requirements:
  • BSc / BCom / BTech / BEng/ Honours with Information Systems or Business as a major.
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred) or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
  • Minimum 12 years of experience in technology roles.
  • 5 years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, systems design, operating at enterprise level.
  • 5 years of experience in the application of IT architecture governance principles.
  • 3 years of experience in cloud architecture, cloud designs, and cloud implementation on AWS (preferred), Azure, or both.
  • Experience in cloud security concepts such as virtual private cloud, subnets, routing, firewalls, VPN connections, identity and access management.
  • Experience in cloud concepts such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and continuous deployment, containers, and serverless computing.
  • Experiences with and having worked in a hybrid- and multi-cloud environment.
  • Experience in providing cost estimates for cloud solutions, and in calculating and designing alternative solutions in the event of cloud cost increases.
  • Understanding of Santam systems and specifically software development experience a benefit.
Competencies:
  • Client Focus
  • Collaboration
  • Flexible and adaptable
  • Cultivates Innovation
  • Building and maintaining relationships
  • Strategic alignment
  • Cloud Architecture Development
  • Systems Architecture Development
  • Data Security
  • IT Policies, standards, industry regulations and best practices
  • Technologies
  • Reporting and Administration
  • Business Requirements Definition

Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.

Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We're about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.

At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.

Qualified applicants are invited to submit their cover letter, CV, and salary requirements in MS Word format online at /careers. Should you be aware of a qualified individual, please pass this vacancy on to them.


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