Enterprise Payments Domain Architect

Is the owner of the MultiChoice payments domain architecture capability. The payments architect is responsible for the design, development, delivery and ongoing maintenance of an enterprise payments architecture and related execution roadmap, assuring its continued alignment to the overarching objectives of the MultiChoice business, IT and enterprise architecture requirements.

**Strategy Execution & Capability Ownership**
- Owner, custodian and champion of the client's payments capability, ensuring cross-group alignment with other functional areas and business functions, as well as to enterprise architecture
- Expert in the payment’s domain (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Servicing, Retention)
- Develops a baseline of the existing payments system portfolio, with responsibility to manage the system lifecycle thereof in accordance with the payments roadmap
- Define, develop and align the mmedium-to-long-term strategy and target architecture (Blueprint) for the enterprise payments capability, with all relevant business and IT stakeholders
- Definition of the client payments architecture frameworks, reference models, standards, policies and practices
- Provides ongoing review of payments environment, recommending improvements based on latest trends, technologies, and business operating environment
- Investigates payments systems that might benefit MultiChoice, providing payments insights into the development of business cases, whilst playing a lead role in the system evaluation and selection process for approved investments
- Drives the payments system evaluation, selection and procurement process
- Consistently aligns enterprise stakeholders regarding cross-department and group-related payments projects, dependencies, overlaps and opportunities
- Provides enterprise-wide assurance over the integrity and appropriateness of payments solution designs, using MultiChoice payments standards
- Definition and review of CRM-specific value realisation goals for the CRM environment
- Represents the payments capability in architecture and design forum(s) as a key decision-making stakeholder

**Delivery Planning, Design & Implementation**
- Align payments activities and roadmaps across the different client Group stakeholders
- Work with the Project Managers and Business Analysts to develop a high-level project schedule, business requirements and set of architecture work packages
- Advise all programme stakeholders of dependencies and impacts related to payments initiatives, ensuring mínimal duplication of systems and functionality, limiting deviation from business & IT strategies
- Lead in design of Programme Conceptual, Logical Architecture(s) and roadmap(s), serving as an input into programme and project solution designs.

**Governance & Risk Management**
- Ensures Risk Management processes are in place to protect information and IT assets through appropriate standards and security policies (e.g., Legal, regulatory and Tax considerations)
- Provides input in the development of policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation and use of Information Technology as related to payments

**Architecture Management**
- Leads a team of allocated specialist designers and solution architects, assuming responsibility for payments solution design
- Manages communication of payments change through the appropriate committees and architecture boards
- Responsible for the achievement of established payments architecture KPI’s related to the programme or enterprise architecture authority
- Manages the Client payments architecture working group
- Manages the payments knowledge & architecture repository for all payments architecture artefacts

**Research & Analysis**
- Active in market trend research and benchmarking of competitive Media institutions, their payments approaches and technologies
- Active in the positioning of feasible payments business and technology concepts to Client Group, contributing to business case development and architecture positioning proposals
- Research new payments technologies and suites to evolve the existing Client technology stack, providing recommendations to the enterprise and payments target architectures as appropriate

**Qualifications**
- BSc Computer Science or BComm Information Systems / Informatics or a similarly relevant Information Technology degree from a recognized university
- Relevant payments software and platform certifications
- Architecture practice and modelling-related certifications e.g., TOGAF, Bredemeyer, Zachmann, UML, eTOM, SOA.
- Architecture tooling certifications & experience e.g., Sparx, Casewise, ARIS, iServer
- Supporting technology or business domain certifications
- 8+ years’ experience as an architecture practitioner
- 5+ years’ experience in payments-specific architecture and solution design
- 5+ years’ experience in leading/managing architecture and/or payments implementation teams
- 3+ years’ experience in implementing larg