Senior Domain Architect - Brackenfell, South Africa - Disruptive IT

Thabo Mthembu

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Purpose of the Job


As a recognized Integration authority the Integration Architect collaborates on Integration standards & controls and creates robust integration architectures in support thereof and leads the realization of the integration architecture into the target environments to deliver interfaces between systems.


Job Objectives
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Lead and promote integration architecture policy, strategy and governance._

  • Develop the integration architecture strategy for the organization.
  • Drive standardisation and rationalisation of integration technologies.
  • Identify, define and communicate principles, standards, guidelines, policies, best practices, and governance practices for integration architectures and designs.
  • Define and implement related API governance.
  • Be the authoritative point of contact for all integration architectures.
  • Articulate and promote the integration approach and vision to senior management and key stakeholders.
  • Manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
  • Stay abreast of best practices and / or new developments in Systems Integration and related disciplines and drive adoption as deemed appropriate.
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Define and continuously improve the integration architecture framework and modeling standards._

  • Define the integration architecture models and modeling standards for the enterprise architecture repository.
  • Define integration architecture quality compliance criteria and enforce them through performing quality assurance checks.
  • Review architecture deliverables throughout the system lifecycle for compliance to integration architecture principles and standards.
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Ensure integration architecture quality._

  • Define and maintain the Shoprite high Level Information Flow model.
  • Review architecture deliverables throughout the system lifecycle for compliance to integration architecture principles and standards.
  • Facilitate and oversee the review of all integration designs to ensure compliance to Shoprite standards related to integration technologies, integration best practices, security, licence compliance, scheduling and monitoring.
  • Ensure that third parties and external partners comply to the Shoprite integration principles and standards.
  • Take responsibility for the technical management and delivery of integration projects.
  • Coach and provide guidance to integration development teams to design highquality technical solutions that fit the integration architecture principles & standards.
  • Detect critical deficiencies in the current integration architecture and recommend solutions for improvement.

Qualifications
Essential

  • Degree in Information Systems / B Sc Computer Science (or similar)

Experience

  • Working experience within the IT industry 510 yrs
  • Excellent design and architecture skills and proven track record delivering well designed complex enterprise class systems 5+ years
  • Identification and formulation of integration architecture and integration solution alternatives and their assessment 5+ years
  • Experience integrating large scale complex systems and businesstobusiness systems integration. Must have been part of a project that implemented an enterprise level API system. 5+ years
  • Experience with current research and standards in API's and Middleware Architecture. 23 years
  • Experience with API Gateways and API Portals 23yrs
  • Experience with cloud integration technologies in AWS or Azure 23yrs
  • Experience with all aspects of IT projects from business analysis, architectures, system analysis and design through development, testing, implementation, and production (SDLC). 5+ years
  • Excellent technical development and design skills and be able to mentor others to improve their skills. 3+ years
  • Experience in high volume data and files processing, in a batch and real time, integration environment. 3+ years
  • Technology selection and design configuration (API, EAI, BPM, Messaging, B2B, B2C, etc years
  • Project management experience of midsized projects. 23 years
  • Retail industry experience with an understanding of retail business processes would be advantageous.

Knowledge and Skills

  • Strong analytical, problemsolving and logical skills with attention to detail Excellent teamworking, interpersonal skills
  • Delivery of compelling presentations to all levels of stakeholders and excellent communication and relationship building skills
  • Develop of proposals and marketing materials and excellent written communication & presentation skills
  • Excellent organisation and facilitation skills
  • Strong conflict management skills
  • System integration design methodologies and integration technologies
  • Integration design patterns and Reference Architectures
  • Various integration tools / suites
  • Practical experience with middleware technologies, EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and ESB (Enterprise Service Bus).
  • Message transport technologies (MQ, JMS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, and SSL)
  • Web Services

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