Head: Strategy and Enterprise Architecture Services

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**_ Operating Division : Transnet Freight Rail_**

**_ Position Title : Head: Strategy and Enterprise Architecture Services (Chief Architect)_**

**_ Employee Group : Permanent_**

**_ Department : ICT_**

**_ Location : Parktown_**

**_ Reporting To : Chief Information Officer & Techn Mngmnt_**

**_ Grade Level : C_**

**_ Reference Number : 50018128_**

**_ Position Purpose:_**
- To translate business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change by creating, communicating, and improving the

key principles and models that describe the enterprise’s future state and enable its evolution.
- The focus is on enabling business and ICT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritise current

operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization.
**_ Position outputs:_**

Strategy Planning
- Design, develops, implement and continually evolve the TFR Digital Transformation Strategy, Programme and Framework

to ensure that TFR stays ahead of competition and can deliver on evolving digitization needs.
- Alignment to the TFR growing and changing business and operational requirements.
- Assist the Chief Information and Technology Officer (CITO) in directing, leading and socializing the Digital Transformation

Strategy in order to ensure understanding, buy-in, participation and ownership by TFR Executive Team.
- Designs processes of tracking, monitoring and evaluation of the execution of Digital Transformation Strategy against set

objectives.
- Ensures alignment of the Strategy Function to Best Practice Frameworks such as KING IV, COBIT, ISO, TOGAF.
- Promote and lead technology-architectural strategic analysis efforts to identify business-technology opportunities that would

significantly improve business agility and profitability.
- Demonstrate the business value of architecture as an enabler of strategy formulation, and as support for technology

innovation, which drives the organization's top and bottom lines.
- Enterprise Architecture
- Provides overall direction, guidance and definition of IT Ecosystem architecture to effectively support the TFR business

strategy.
- Design, Develops and Implement TFR Enterprise Architecture Blueprint designed to drive the implementation of the TFR

and ICT Digital Transformation Strategy and Roadmap.
- Manage/coordinates architecture work across various architecture domains (Business Process Architecture, Application

Architecture, Data and Information Architecture, Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture, Integration Architecture as well as
- Information and Cyber Security Architecture) to ensure architecture coherence, integrity and fitness-for-purpose.
- Translates the ICT Roadmap into ICT Portfolio Management whilst ensuring alignment to the EA Blueprint and Execution

Plan.
- Sets the standards for Integration Services, Solutions Integration, Solutions Design, API Gateway and Management

Service.
- Interfaces across functional areas, acting as visionary to proactively assist in defining the direction for future projects.
- Leads the design of EA Conceptual and Details designs in support of Agile-DevOps and Scrum Methodology thus ensuring

efficiency in the delivery of Minimum Viable Production, Packages, Modules and Solutions.
- Recommends allocation of investment to meet TFR short and long term business requirements
- Designs, develops and implements EA Principles, Standards, Architecture and Procedures in support of ICT Policies to

ensure efficient, effective and optimum execution of EA discipline.
- Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as support of all

architectural disciplines under their direction.
- Drives simplification, standardization, TOC, ROI and Resilience to reduce costs and provides new business capabilities to

increase revenue.
- Recommends and participates in the analysis, evaluation and development of enterprise long term strategic and operating

plans to ensure that the EA objectives are consistent with the enterprise’s long-term business objectives.
- Advises and recommends enterprise architecture strategies, processes and methodologies.
- Keeps abreast with trends that are changing and challenging the ICT and digital landscape; shares best practices, lessons

learnt and constantly updates the technic