Enterprise Architect: Solutions Deliver

**Lead the Enterprise Architecture Practice**
- Create an Enterprise Architecture vision and Operating Plan
- Continuously improve and evolve the Enterprise Architecture practice based on organizational needs
- Lead and Manage the Enterprise Architecture team

**Provide input to the IT Enterprise Architecture road-map based on business strategy and retail industry trends**
- Establish and maintain leading practice Enterprise Architecture frameworks and methodologies
- Proactively identify business opportunities and benefits based on the IT Enterprise Architecture road-map to influence the EA strategy and road-map planning

**Mentor enterprise solution architects, project solution architects**
- Help identify knowledge gaps and provide advisory to improve maturity of architecture practices and deliverables
- Recommend methods, techniques and tools that architecture practitioners can easily adopt to improve their understanding and consistency of the deliverables they are responsible for

**Promote a working group culture within the IT Enterprise Architecture function**
- Contribute to leading the Enterprise Architecture function, inclusive of Architecture Governance, IT Portfolio Planning, Business Ennoblement and Functional Management

**Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across IT**
- Collaborate with IT Leadership on strategy formation and road-map planning to achieve targeted business benefits
- Collaborate with the IT Portfolio function in integrating the IT Enterprise Architecture function with the project lifecycle to deliver IT programmers, projects and operating plan initiatives
- Provide guidance and direction to IT Management in strategically aligning demand and supply sides of IT through influencing without authority and promoting a collaborative mindset, leaning on corporate values

**Ensure the end to end quality of all solutions architecture deliverables**
- Proactively identify business opportunities and benefits based on the Enterprise Architecture road-map
- Proactively identify technology ennoblement-related business risks and mitigation based on the Enterprise Architecture road-map
- Work with solution architects to connect with implementation teams in the planning, building and running of complex services/solutions

**Minimum requirements**
- Relevant 3 year tertiary or NQF aligned qualification
- Relevant architecture certification
- Up to 12 years’ experience in an IT architecture capacity, of which at least 1-2 years’ in a digital architecture capacity
- At least 5 years’ experience team leadership experience
- Strong leadership ability of direct and virtual teams
- Relevant IT experience
- Deep understanding of IT and Digital capabilities
- Retail knowledge advantageous
- Create structure from complexity
- Project management capability/experience and methodology understanding
- Business acumen
- Commercial acumen
- Strong facilitation and communication skills at all organisational levels (written, verbal, presentation)
- Systemic Thinking
- Strong collaboration with internal and external stakeholders and partners
- Practical knowledge of Business Architecture
- Understands what is commercially achievable and makes sound business decisions.
- Maintains advanced knowledge of business operations and organisational metrics and trends.
- Factors in retail models and levers in building an effective IT landscape.
- Maintains advanced knowledge of key industry metrics and trends.
- Makes sound technical decisions based on understanding of what is commercially achievable within technological constraints.
- Leverages research on technology-related concepts, trends and best practices to provide guidance on IT road-map.
- Set technical policies and procedures to support IT stability and success aligned to evolving technologies and methodologies.
- Finds ways to condense large amounts of information into a useful form
- Asks perceptive, probing questions to get to the heart of the matter
- Maintains a keen awareness of the interrelationships among various components of large-scale activities/projects
- Defines roles and responsibilities and sets measurable and achievable performance expectations for the team
- Demonstrates effective people leadership skills when working across teams
- Shares information with colleagues and partners about industry trends and business opportunities.
- Coaches others on how to develop proposals and work plans for effective partnership arrangements.
- Actively listens, interprets and presents messages in different ways to enhance understanding.
- Confidently addresses groups of people, adapting style as appropriate for different audiences.
- Anticipates change by keeping up to date on current research and trends affecting one’s own field
- Reviews, evaluates and disseminates information regarding key methodologies, best practices and tools to support a future landscape