Operational Technology Architect

**Job ID**: 83459**Date Posted**: Posted 53 mins ago**Location**: Rosebank**Job Title**: OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 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 to ensure efficient and safe technology architectures are delivered.
- Proactively managing global leader stakeholders in a matrixed organisation; developing a trusted 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 the architecture repository.
- Select reference viewpoints.
- Select a 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 / OT related fields

**Experience**:

- 8+ years in a corporate IT / OT environment, in senior leadership roles
- 8+ years’ experience in IT /OT 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 / OT 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
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