Cloud Solution Architect - Johannesburg, South Africa - Oneway Connect

Oneway Connect

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

beBee Recruiter

Description

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Develop and regularly maintain a futurestate Domain and /or ICT vision in line with the organisation's Business and IT Strategies as well as the roadmap for transforming between current and future Domain vision and or ICT vision
Govern the development and ongoing review and update of the organisation's Domain Principles
Govern the Architecture Review Board and the regular meeting of this board to ensure Solution Architecture alignment with ICT Principles, ICT Standards and Future State Vision
Participate in the Architecture Review Board to ensure Solution Architecture alignment with Domain Principles, Standards and Future State Vision
Governance of Innovation Ideation and the promotion of innovation ideas to Proof of Concept and Pilot Projects
Work with operational teams to determine opportunities for improvement and define business requirements.
Ensure continuous alignment between architectural delivery and the operational implementation and integrity of IT systems.
Provide leadership and vision for the optimisation and rationalisation of ICT infrastructure aimed at increasing capability and/or IT cost savings and/or IT Service Levels.
Provide an Enterprise Architecture Centre of Excellence capability to the organisation
Provide mentorship and coaching to all Architecture teams within the organisation
Develop and regularly review and where necessary recommend updates to the organisation's Domain standards the organisation's IT Strategy and the ongoing maintenance thereof w.r.t. emerging technology utilisation
Facilitate the organisation's knowledge and understanding of current and emerging technology and how it can be leveraged for maximum business benefit
Calculate the organisation's Domain Technical Debt and ensure this is regularly communicated to the Head of Architecture
Proactively recommend changes to Domain implementations to introduce new functionality, reduce IT Cost or improve levels of Service
Calculate Business Cases and Impact Assessments for emerging technology deployments to meet business need as directed by Business demand,
Facilitate regular Innovation Days and Innovation Workshops for detailed understanding of emerging technology capability
Assist in the development of Cloud Solution Architectures requiring Domain technologies and ensure alignment across Architectural disciplines and Solution domains
Identifies the risk of proposed change impact and develops mitigating actions to enable Enterprise wide solutions
Monitor emerging cloud trends and evaluates their potential impact on the broader organisation
Ensure alignment across Architectural disciplines and Solution domains
Conduct Issue/Dispute resolution across Architectural disciplines
Lead the achievement of Cloud Architecture Solution across multiple disciplines and domains
Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

Solid knowledge of multivendor service integrations and crossfunctional software, OSs and infrastructure designs
Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
Ability to develop and leverage their knowledge of reference architectures
Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

Qualification in Information Technology or Information Systems
Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.)
SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous
AWS, Azure

Salary:
R600,00 - R700,00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week