Cloud Architect

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Santam Insurance Full time
Job title : Cloud ArchitectJob Location : Western Cape, BellvilleDeadline : December 11, 2024Quick Recommended Links
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JOB DESCRIPTION

  • The purpose of an enterprise architect is to align Santam’s business strategy and objectives with its information technology infrastructure. 
  • Being involved in the complete Santam landscape, the enterprise architect ensures that Santam’s systems, processes, and resources are effectively designed, implemented, and managed to support the overall business goals. 
  • In effect, the enterprise architect bridges the gap between business and technology allowing Santam to achieve its long-term goals by leveraging appropriate

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES INCLUDE:

Architecture functions

  • Analyse Santam business strategy and translate it into an IT strategy that supports the business vision.
  • Design and develop enterprise-wide technology architectures that encompass various aspects, including business processes, applications, infrastructure, and security, but with a focus on cloud solutions. These architectures provide a blueprint for Santam’s cloud strategy and IT systems, ensuring coherence, integration, and scalability.
  • Establish and enforce architecture and design governance processes, principles and standards to ensure consistency, interoperability, and compliance across IT projects and systems. 
  • Oversee the alignment of IT initiatives with the enterprise architecture and facilitate decision-making regarding technology investments.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, including business leaders, project managers, developers, and other architects, to understand their requirements and constraints. Enterprise architects communicate the architectural vision and plans effectively, ensuring buy-in and understanding from all involved parties.
  • Understands how the business requirements can be met using the available cloud solutions or defines what additional solutions is needed.
  • Evaluate cloud solutions, emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices to inform decision-making regarding technology adoption, modernization, and retirement.
  • Assessment of the impact of new cloud business solutions on the information technology landscape. Includes execution of technical due diligence across all dimensions of IT
  • Work as a team member with Development Managers and other technical staff, to ensure the application is implemented according to requirements.
  • Identification of potential risks / issues and give input into risk plan.
  • Active engagement with technology partners to deliver an integrated solution across platforms and across cloud solution partners.

Generic functions

  • Ensure that solution implementations are coherent and consistent with technology strategies, governance and architecture.
  • Provide advice and consultancy across the Santam Group on the enterprise architecture matters.
  • Participate in reviews and provide guidance to teams to ensure that the principles, architecture and strategies are followed.
  • Establish and participate in design reviews, regular architectural reviews and technical issue management meetings.
  • Ensure that design is optimised for use on the specific cloud infrastructure.
  • Provide support to other members of the development team and members of the business management team as required.
  • Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the workings of cloud architectures, solutions and packages 
  • Work effectively in a team with other Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Business Architects and Lead developers to consider design alternatives and agree on appropriate design decisions in support of business requirements.

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES INCLUDE:

Cloud functions

  • Establish and maintain Santam Group cloud architecture principles.
  • Develop and maintain specific cloud architectures for each of the major cloud providers – AWS, Azure and any other future providers.
  • Calculate total cost of ownership options and advise on best and most cost-effective implementations.
  • Accountable to establish and maintain Santam Group Logical cloud architecture.
  • Accountable to establish and maintain Santam Group Cloud Platform architecture.
  • Maintain and mature the architecture capability as per the Zachman framework

 Quality Assurance

  • Ensuring the alignment of initiatives to the target cloud architecture and standards with Santam and the Sanlam Group
  • Design and improve the Santam STS Enterprise Architecture Governance framework
  • Accountable to regulate and enforce adherence to the above framework, with a specific focus on cloud aspects, in the Santam Solution Design Forum, Sanlam Saser, and other forums.
  • Review agreed implementation, to ensure correct interpretation of the requirements and architecture and strategies
  • Facilitate and lead the quality assurance processes for design and development to ensure the ongoing integrity of the end-to-end systems landscape

QUALIFICATION

  • BSc / BCom / BTech / BEng/ Honours with Information Systems or Business as a major.
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred) or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

KNOWLEDGE and EXPERIENCE

  • Minimum 8 years of experience in technology roles
  • 3 years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, systems design, operating at enterprise level.
  • 3 years of experience in the application of IT architecture governance principles
  • 2 years of experience in cloud architecture, cloud designs, and cloud implementation on AWS (preferred), Azure, or both.
  • Experience in cloud security concepts such as virtual private cloud, subnets, routing, firewalls, VPN connections, identity and access management. 
  • Experience in cloud concepts such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and continuous deployment, containers, and serverless computing. 
  • Experiences with and having worked in a hybrid- and multi-cloud environment.
  • Experience in providing cost estimates for cloud solutions, and in calculating and designing alternative solutions in the event of cloud cost increases.
  • Understanding of Santam systems and specifically software development experience a benefit.

SKILLS

  • Strong leadership and influencing skills
  • Ability to negotiate and positively influence others
  • Ability to effectively deal with conflict situations and complexity 
  • High level of emotional intelligence
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent facilitations skills
  • Networking skills
  • Applying technologies
  • Conceptual thinker
  • Risk management
  • Change management
  • Develop and implement strategy
  • Interpersonal skills, ability to engage with senior business stakeholders
  • Ability to accept accountability for actions and decisions 
  • Analytical in nature
  • Problem resolution
  • Team player 
  • Pragmatism
  • Plans and aligns

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