Enterprise Architect II

Job Description

To facilitate the development of future-state architecture and ensure its effective adoption, provide operational opportunities, direction, and guidance for enterprise architecture, advocate and support IT strategy, and align IT to business strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in either Information Systems or Computer Science
• Honours or Masters Degree in Information Systems or Computer Science
• TOGAF Foundation Training
• TOGAF Certification
• Information Technology Architect Certification (ITAC) (Open Group)
• Cloud-related certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Certified Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect preferred
• 5+ years experience in developing strategic IT plans/roadmaps
• 10+ years experience in systems design and development
• 10+ years experience in Architecture
• Understanding of waterfall and agile methodologies
• Assertiveness and ability to influence and reason with key stakeholders
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Analytical, logical, lateral, and creative thinking
• Ability to integrate disparate concepts into a cohesive whole
• Ability to reason at various levels of abstraction
• Excellent modeling skills across all ICT models
• Good understanding of all levels of ICT infrastructure
• Systems thinking
• Design thinking and facilitation
• Customer centricity
• Mature collaborator with high levels of EQ
• Ability to negotiate strong opinions and viewpoints
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Research methodology
• Decision-making process
• Business writing skills
• Cluster-specific operational knowledge
• System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Unified Modelling Language (UML)
• Rational design toolset application
• IT Architecture

Responsibilities

• Facilitate priority setting, project selection, and integration in the organization by providing guiding principles and architecture
• Ensure alignment with emerging technologies and recommend new technologies
• Deliver business tasks according to the level of expertise to meet financial objectives
• Address client needs through leading phases of projects or consulting to projects and business leaders across a variety of architecture disciplines
• Build professional relationships, lead, and influence in all disciplines of architecture
• Build and maintain relationships within the enterprise and within the larger field of specialty
• Lead the achievement of architecture solutions where an understanding of all disciplines is required
• Monitor and evaluate competitive offerings that could change the domain landscape, affect multiple domains, or the broader organization
• Identify the business impact of change and risks associated
• Integrate the change impact into business recommendations and strategic planning
• Adjust recommendations by considering the impact of new initiatives on market perception
• Enable enterprise-wide solutions to integrate well with existing practices by developing mitigating actions and change strategies
• Consider not only the optimization of the system but also the long-term viability of the system
• Build models around future scenario planning
• Optimize the architectural strategy across various families or portfolios of applications or products in the enterprise by taking an enterprise viewpoint
• Effect multiple domains or create new domains, or change the landscape through developing position papers
• Integrate key principles and issues to build enterprise-wide solutions
• Apply disciplines in a variety of projects in relevant solution domains and across multiple business areas
• Combine multiple perspectives from experience in various roles on multiple developments and architecting projects
• Consider enterprise-wide relevant best practices within the larger financial industry and global economy
• Ensure alignment to newest trends by monitoring emerging trends and evaluating their potential impact on the broader organization
• Deliver on work tasks for which the impact can only be determined 3-5 years later
• Move the system towards the desired future state through consideration of future scenarios, the macro environment, and present operational requirements
• Identify underlying patterns in vague, ambiguous information
• Make judgments based on hypotheses, future scenarios, or educated guesses
• Provide advice to the business across all disciplines
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives, and values
• Stay abreast of developments in the field of expertise
• Contribute to Nedbank Culture building initiatives
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems through agile thinking