Key purpose

The Enterprise Architects are focused on enabling business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritise current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer- term strategic vision of the organisation.

Duties and responsibilities

Identifying and analysing of the organisations Business drivers and business development strategies
Analysing of the current IT ecosystem to detect critical deficiencies and Pain Points
Recommending solutions for overall Business and Technology innovation and optimisation/improvement that will increase sustainability and prepare for future expansion
Align with the organisations technology and governance strategies, policies, and standards or direct necessary changes to these
Delivering transition views (models) that are an interim view, in between the current state and a future state
Ensuring that the architecture of the enterprise is optimised, it is essential that all Architecture Domains (Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Application architecture, Technology Architecture) integrate (and inter-operate) in a cost-effective manner, with minimum effort and maximum benefit to the organisation
Guiding the technology, design patterns, design constructs and the (re-usable) solution building blocks that make up a Solution Architecture, defining a conceptual Solution Architecture
Keeping up to date with and having a clear understanding of the capabilities and benefits of new/emerging technologies in order to apply same in a business context
Provide assistance in business case development (i.e., research, data collection). Provide factual content to the feasibility studies that are needed for standard development projects and enhancements

Qualifications and experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related discipline with an Information Technology focus
8 years of experience in IT, with a minimum of two years in Business Process Design
Project Management Certification preferable
TOGAF Certification preferable
Experience with process redesign methods and tools
5 years of demonstrated management / supervisory experience in system management

Solution Architect

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