Infrastructure Architect

**Job ID**: 83460**Date Posted**: Posted 50 mins ago**Location**: Rosebank**Job Title**: INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT (6 MONTHS) FTC - ROSEBANK - GAUTENG

**Role Accountabilities**
Work Accountabilities:

- Participate in the global process to manage new technology ideas and demands, providing research, analysis, design review and recommendations to leadership
- Provide design support to projects and business groups in order to ensure efficient and safe technology architectures are delivered
- Proactively managing global leader stakeholder in a matrixed organization; developing a trust advisor and teaming approach
- Collaborating with the team to identify, select and implement appropriate solutions
- Monitor and research emerging innovation with a view to determining functionality that may provide business value.

Define and Maintain Reference Architecture:

- Define/Maintain architecture repository
- Select reference viewpoints
- Select modelling approach
- Approve baseline architectural domain descriptions
- Identify EA building blocks
- Approve baseline architectures
- Approve target architectures
- Define baseline domain architectures
- Define target domain architectures

Select opportunities and solutions:

- Confirm key enterprise change attributes
- Identify possible enterprise drivers
- Consider EA maturity
- Review and assess gap analysis
- Evaluate potential solutions
- Assess Enterprise dependencies
- Assess Request for EA Work
- Identify potential enterprise architecture solutions
- Identify potential domain architecture solutions
- Confirm enterprise architecture readiness
- Formulate high-level implementation and migration strategy
- Identify EA programmes and projects
- Develop transition architecture
- Confirm domain architecture readiness

Define architecture implementation:

- Validate and prioritise the enterprise architecture implementation and migration plan
- Confirm transition enterprise architecture increments and phases
- Define enterprise architecture implementation governance
- Update architecture Repository
- Compile enterprise architecture implementation roadmap
- Obtain approval of architecture roadmap
- Define domain architecture implementation governance
- Compile domain architecture implementation roadmap
- Validate and prioritise the domain architecture implementation and migration plan
- Confirm transition domain architecture increments and phases

Stakeholder Accountabilities:
Internal
- Business, DT

External
- Service providers, Analyst Organisations, client Peers

**Person Specification (list the minimum essential requirements for the role)**

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree in IT related fields

**Experience**:

- 8+ years in a corporate IT environment, in senior leadership roles
- 8+ years’ experience in IT technology architecture

Tools:
Certificates:
Certifications preferred but not required
- TOGAF or equivalent Architecture qualification
- MDP / MBA or equivalent management qualification

Competencies (list the knowledge, skills and required behaviours of the specific role):
Technical & Functional
- Full technology solutions architecture lifecycle, including requirements-gathering, vendor selection, design, costing, and non-functional optionality
- Formidable team working skills across matrixed client, supplier, and geographically dispersed virtual teams
- Experience in delivery that includes the use of external supplier and offshore resources
- Experience in the development of technology and system strategies and roadmaps to address business strategy.
- Experience in the development of effective standards and policies governing IT matters.
- Experience in engaging with a wide range of stakeholders across a culturally and geographically diverse organization.
- Proven business and financial acumen.
- Experience in the mentoring and development of staff members

Behavioural & Leadership
- Maintains a productive climate and confidently motivates, mobilizes, and coaches employees to meet high performance standards and goals
- Formulates effective strategies consistent with the business and competitive strategies, examines policy issues and strategic planning with a long-term perspective, determines objectives, sets priorities, and anticipates potential threats or opportunities
- Oversees, guides, and evaluates activities of full team
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills (including difficult negotiation)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - must be able to communicate fluently in English both verbally and in writing
- Demonstrating the level of maturity to manage and lead by example and communicate effectively with business executives (often VP and SVP)
- Identifies what needs to be accomplished and takes action to achieve a standard of excellence beyond job expectations
- Understands, embraces, and integrates corporate values into everyday duties and responsibilities
- Identifies and responds to current and future needs by providin