Operational Technology Architect - Johannesburg, South Africa - Boardroom Appointments

Boardroom Appointments

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

CONTRACT ROLE

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

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.
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 organization; 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

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

Have a broad level of knowledge across Enterprise Architecture, Managed Services, Service Management consulting, and multiple solutions areas (Business Units), and across domains, delivery units, and geographies
Understand, influence, and design organisation structures, capabilities, processes, and operating models
Understand how technology solutions are influenced and affected by various business scenarios
Ability to take the service schedules and SLA developed through the value proposition development phase, develop them to contract quality, and deliver them for inclusion in the schedules of the master services agreement.
Ability to develop a service transformation architecture to deliver the transformation business, investments, activities, deliverables, schedules, and risks across all service delivery.
Define organizational service and product catalogs or acts as a formal interface to the product organization, producing formalized inputs for product evolution

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in IT / OT related fields
8+ years in a corporate IT / OT environment, in senior leadership roles
8+ years' experience in IT /OT technology architecture

Define architecture implementation:

Validate and prioritize 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 prioritize the domain architecture implementation and migration plan.
Confirm transition domain architecture increments and phases

Skills Summary
Business Processes, Business Solutions, Customer Engagement, Information Technology (IT) Services, Information Technology (IT) Systems, Managed Service Providers, Process Management, Service Consulting, Services Management, Service Solutions