SUMMARY:
Head of Enterprise Architecture - JHB
POSITION INFO:
Head of Enterprise Architecture
Responsible for the entire Organisation’s Enterprise strategy framework implementation, analysis, design, and integration of an organizations complete information resources, including infrastructure, applications, and data. An enterprise architecture (EA) is a conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of organizations.
JOB PURPOSE
Responsible for the entire Organisation’s Enterprise strategy framework implementation, analysis, design, and integration of an organization''s complete information resources, including infrastructure, applications, and data. An enterprise architecture (EA) is a conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of organizations. The intent of enterprise architecture is to determine how an organization can effectively achieve its current and future objectives.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Team Management
Provide visionary leadership across the group, fostering a collaborative and innovative culture
Engage with various leaders such as Executives across business to find solutions and create better enterprise frameworks
Mentor and coach, the solution architects, promoting professional growth and skill enhancement
Efficiently allocate team resources to optimize workflow and meet project deadlines
Conduct regular performance assessments, offering constructive feedback and implementing improvement plans as needed
Collaborate with HR to identify and attract top talent for the Solution architecture team
Lead the entire Enterprise architecture models within the business, ensuring a seamless integration of processes within organization
Proactively address conflicts within the team, promoting a positive and collaborative work environment
Implement effective conflict resolution strategies to maintain a cohesive and motivated team
Facilitate regular knowledge-sharing sessions to ensure best practices are disseminated and adopted
Encourage a culture of continuous learning and improvement
Strategy Formation and Implementation
Collaborate with key stakeholders to Develop, define, and refine the Enterprise and solution architect strategy aligned with overall business objectives
Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to inform the evolution of Enterprise architecture
Develop detailed implementation plans for Enterprise Architecture initiatives, considering timelines, resource requirements, and potential challenges
Ensure alignment of solution architecture initiatives with the organization''s strategic goals
Establish metrics and KPIs and department objectives to measure the effectiveness of solution architecture processes
Continuously assess and refine strategies based on performance data and industry developments
Enterprise Application Portfolio
Create a strategy model that works for the group’s entire Enterprise architect through designing better infrastructure frameworks that enables business to compete with industry related markets
The EA ensures that the application portfolio evolves at an appropriate rate and does not become unviable as the other related architectures change
The EA also provides the reusable standards, guidelines, patterns, and frameworks to application development projects, including those related to application architecture
Make sure that all aspects of the application solution architecture are optimized (as much as possible given other constraints of time and budget) by working with subject matter experts (SMEs) in the areas of technology, information and application architectures and disciplines
The application architect is the SME focused on designing application interfaces and software services to maximize reuse based on the business processes and governance rules for sharing
Enterprise Architect Support
Limit choices available during development by choosing a standard way of pursuing application development creating, defining, or choosing an application framework for the application
Recognize potential reuse in the organization or in the application by observing and understanding the broader system environment creating the component design having knowledge of other applications in the organization
Subdivide a complex application, during the design phase, into smaller, more manageable pieces
Grasp the functions of each component within the application
Understand the interactions and dependencies among components
Communicate these concepts to developers
Review, develop and maintain the organization’s IT architecture
Review and evaluate the current state of the organization’s architecture (‘as-is) in order to identify duplications, what is working, what is not working and measure the health of key business processes that are supported by the current architecture
Build the transition architecture to connect the current to the future state by creating an iterative roadmap to get to the desired state
Recommend and provide changes to the business in easily digestible iterative changes
Work in liaison with business stakeholders to develop Business Architecture Roadmaps containing tactical and strategic initiatives to reach target business capabilities. Identify and resolve dependencies and impacts across the architecture landscape
Design solutions based on business requirements that align with Reference Architecture policies and standards
Provide expertise in designing solutions for custom requirements
Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders and conduct stakeholder reviews of architecture roadmaps and designs
Determine Enterprise Architecture policy and standards definition and evolution and works with PMO to coordinate project pipeline management
Engage relevant peers from other disciplines or domains during implementation of Solution Architecture/Design
Accountable to build a defined life cycle around reviewing the future state enterprise architecture
Customer Centricity
Coordinates contact with Business Partners as needed to assist with support activities
Establish and maintain a positive professional relationship with Business Partners and customers
Maintain regular and timely communications with Business Partners and customers
Maintain strong working relationship with customers and Business Partners
Work with customers and Business Partners to execute consistent service processes throughout the organization
Establish a single point of contact for issue resolution and change management
Drive customer centricity in levels of the organization
Work Collaboratively
Build a culture of integrity, respect and understanding across the organisation
Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication, and collaboration across the organisation
Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders (Retailers and POS Companies) to develop joint solutions
Demonstrate ability to work and engage with various teams
Demonstrate ability to communicate at all levels
Budgeting, Policies and Procedures Development
Collaborate with finance executives, and relevant stakeholders to develop and manage the DevOps budget
Ensure efficient use of resources and adherence to financial guidelines
Develop and enforce DevOps policies and procedures to ensure consistency and compliance within the business
Regularly review and update policies to align with industry best practices and organizational needs
Job Requirements
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
Tech Savvy
Attention to detail
Customer focused
Evaluating problems
Processing details and information
Building relationships & Trust
Communicating information
Providing leadership
Showing resilience
Learning ability
Stress tolerance
Conflict Management
Time Management
Assertive
Analytical
Tenacity
Achieves Results
Entrepreneurial Orientation
EDUCATION
Matric
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems
Equivalent experience required TOGAF certification
EXPERIENCE
8+ years’ experience in an Enterprise Architect
10+ years’ experience Solution Architect role
Knowledge of the relevant Information Technology governance and legislative framework (such as COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF, SDLC, ASAP, SOA)
Strong Microsoft Office productivity tools knowledge (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Atlassian and Jira knowledge (advantageous)
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