• To facilitate the development of future-state architecture and ensure its effective adoption.  

• Provide and identify operational opportunities, overall direction, guidance and definition of the enterprise architecture that effectively support business strategies.

• Advocating and supporting the enterprise's IT strategy, identifying and analysing enterprise business drivers, analysing the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, recommending solutions for improvement and developing strategies for aligning IT to the business.

• Act as a trusted technology advisor to business in realising the business strategy for the relevant discipline. Responsible for the end-to-end view across both Capabilities and/or Solution Architecture disciplines, ensuring alignment across relevant domains.

• Works as an advocate and liaises with Information Services and Technology operational teams and the Enterprise Architects researching technology trends.

Qualifications:

Essential (required minimum):

• Bachelor Degree in either Information Systems or Computer Science

• Honours or Masters Degree (or higher) in either Information Systems or Computer Science

• TOGAF Foundation Training

• TOGAF Certification

• Information Technology Architect Certification (ITAC) (Open Group)

Preferred Qualification:

• Cloud-related certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Certified Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect.

Experience & Skills:

• 5+ Years experience in developing strategic IT plans/roadmaps

• 10+ Years experience in systems design and development

• 10+ Years experience in Architecture

• Advantageous Experience (not a Disqualifier)

  • Understanding waterfall and agile methodologies

  • Skills (Technologies, systems or software knowledge etc.)

  • Assertiveness and ability to influence and reason with key stakeholders

  • Able to work in a team environment

  • Excellent interpersonal skills

  • Analytical, Logical, Lateral and Creative Thinking

  • Able to integrate disparate concepts into a cohesive whole

  • Able to reason at various levels of abstraction

  • Excellent modelling skills across all ICT models

  • Good understanding of all levels of ICT infrastructure

  • Systems thinking

  • Design thinking and facilitation

  • Customer Centricity

• 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