Senior Manager: Enterprise Architect

Duties & Responsibilities:
**Enterprise Architecture**
- Develops the overall architecture vision and roadmap
- Develops Enterprise Architecture framework including the identification of technology trends, innovation, governance, strategy, complexities and required competencies to implement the framework
- Incorporates new models and approaches to support organizations' digital business efforts.
- Formulates the Enterprise Architecture Blueprint to aid key strategic business initiatives
- Standardize Enterprise Data Model and Master Data, and Data Quality
- Develops SOA/ Integration Architecture
- Providing technology guidance through technology architecture helping resolve issues such as reducing complexity, simplifying the underlying technologies and guiding development decisions.
- Develops and drives an enterprise architecture governance framework bringing to drive business outcomes by involving stakeholders from across the organization
- Establish and manage architecture governance through Architecture Review Boards, Design authorities and associated architecture governance processes for to achieve strategy
- Translate and develop business and functional requirements into a multi-tier based tailored solution that includes the user interface, business logic, system-to-system interfaces
- Identifies synergies throughout to ensure that there is no duplication
- Designs and develops the IT framework for the digital transformation aligning it to the Business and Customer requirements in conjunction with the relevant Domain Architects
- Defining and managing the capability for digital transformation
- Ensure solutions that support Mobility & Innovation
- Defines cloud/ on premise strategy.
- Define a discipline and approach for information assets.
- Ensure the effective translation of the security architecture is implemented into the solutions.
- Ensure Compliance to approved policies, processes, procedures and Standards
- Reduce IT environment complexity and cost through consolidation and rationalization
- Mitigate Risk by leveraging global Legacy transformation
- Consider re-using of existing asset and cost saving in all roadmaps and designs (Driving cost down) to support the IT Departmental objectives

**Stakeholder Management**
- Manage external vendor relations for initial contract
- Perform functional bridge amongst external vendors as well as internal stakeholders.
- Perform due diligence on potential suppliers and ensure for purpose vendor landscape
- Prepare processes for as well as manage analysis, selection and transition
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the architecture is aligned with the business requirements
- Develop relationship with lines of Business units to derive business benefits
- Ensures the communication and understanding of the framework by the relevant stakeholders and users

**Managing people**
- Evaluation of staff, identify strengths and deficiencies and arrange for necessary action
- Meet and motivate the team, agree on goals and objectives, identify key performance areas and action plan

Formal Education:

- IT related degree/diploma
- Microsoft certification
- The Open Group TOGAF 9 Certification
- The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA)
- Cloud architect training and certification
- Systems Security Architecture training

**Experience**:

- 7 years’ experience in IT Development
- 8 years’ experience in IT systems architect
- 3 years’ experience in Enterprise architecture
- 5 years’ experience in project management
- 5 years’ experience in long term insurance industry