Operational Technology Architect - Rosebank, South Africa - Tych Business Solutions

Tych Business Solutions
Tych Business Solutions
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Rosebank, South Africa

2 weeks ago

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Job ID: 83459
Date Posted: Posted 53 mins ago
Location: Rosebank
Job Title: OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECT (6 MONTHS) FTC - ROSEBANK - GAUTENG


Role Accountabilities

Work Accountabilities:

  • Participate in the global process to manage new technology ideas and demands, providing research, analysis, design review and recommendations to leadership.
  • Provide design support to projects and business groups to ensure efficient and safe technology architectures are delivered.
  • Proactively managing global leader stakeholders in a matrixed organisation; developing a trusted advisor and teaming approach.
  • Collaborating with the team to identify, select and implement appropriate solutions.
  • Monitor and research emerging innovation with a view to determining functionality that may provide business value.

Define and Maintain Reference Architecture:

  • Define/Maintain the architecture repository.
  • Select reference viewpoints.
  • Select a modelling approach.
  • Approve baseline architectural domain descriptions.
  • Identify EA building blocks.
  • Approve baseline architectures.
  • Approve target architectures.
  • Define baseline domain architectures.
  • Define target domain architectures.

Select opportunities and solutions:

  • Confirm key enterprise change attributes.
  • Identify possible enterprise drivers.
  • Consider EA maturity.
  • Review and assess gap analysis.
  • Evaluate potential solutions.
  • Assess Enterprise dependencies.
  • Assess Request for EA Work.
  • Identify potential enterprise architecture solutions.
  • Identify potential domain architecture solutions.
  • Confirm enterprise architecture readiness.
  • Formulate highlevel implementation and migration strategy.
  • Identify EA programmes and projects.
  • Develop transition architecture.
  • Confirm domain architecture readiness.

Define architecture implementation:

  • Validate and prioritise the enterprise architecture implementation and migration plan.
  • Confirm transition enterprise architecture increments and phases.
  • Define enterprise architecture implementation governance.
  • Update architecture Repository.
  • Compile enterprise architecture implementation roadmap.
  • Obtain approval of architecture roadmap.
  • Define domain architecture implementation governance.
  • Compile domain architecture implementation roadmap.
  • Validate and prioritise the domain architecture implementation and migration plan.
  • Confirm transition domain architecture increments and phases

Stakeholder Accountabilities:
Internal

  • Business, DT
External

  • Service providers, Analyst Organisations, client Peers

Person Specification (list the minimum essential requirements for the role)

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in IT / OT related fields

Experience:


  • 8+ years in a corporate IT / OT environment, in senior leadership roles
  • 8+ years' experience in IT /OT technology architecture

Tools:

Certificates:
Certifications preferred but not required

  • TOGAF or equivalent Architecture qualification
  • MDP / MBA or equivalent management qualification
Competencies (list the knowledge, skills and required behaviours of the specific role):
Technical & Functional

  • Full technology solutions architecture lifecycle, including requirementsgathering, vendor selection, design, costing, and nonfunctional optionality
  • Formidable team working skills across matrixed client, supplier, and geographically dispersed virtual teams
  • Experience in delivery that includes the use of external supplier and offshore resources
  • Experience in the development of technology and system strategies and roadmaps to address business strategy.
  • Experience in the development of effective standards and policies governing IT / OT matters.
  • Experience in engaging with a wide range of stakeholders across a culturally and geographically diverse organization.
  • Proven business and financial acumen.
  • Experience in the mentoring and development of staff members
Behavioural & Leadership

  • Maintains a productive climate and confidently motivates, mobilizes, and coaches employees to meet high performance standards and goals
  • Formulates effective strategies consistent with the business and competitive strategies, examines policy issues and strategic planning with a longterm perspective, determines objectives, sets priorities, and anticipates potential threats or opportunities
  • Oversees, guides, and evaluates activities of full team
  • Effective communication and interpersonal skills (including difficult negotiation)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills must be able to communicate fluently in English both verbally and in writing
  • Demonstrating the level of maturity to manage and lead by example and communicate effectively with business executives (often VP and SVP)
  • Identifies what needs to be accomplished and takes action to achieve a standard of excellence beyond job expectations
  • Understands, embraces, and integrates corporate values into everyday duties and responsibilities
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