Enterprise Architect - Johannesburg, South Africa - Edge Executive Search

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Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

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Enterprise Architect

Permanent

JHB00319

Banking
Gauteng, JHB
Central
R R Annually Cost To Company
The Enterprise Architect is responsible for the management and control of all enterprisewide IT methodology, principles, standards and processes that govern the IT architecture.

The responsibility extends to creating high level technical end to end architecture that describes how IT components are combined to meet a particular set of business requirements and capabilities.

It is a multi-disciplinary role guiding business and IT teams to meet project objectives, executing on the IT strategy and Enterprise Architecture roadmap taking a long term view that incorporates IT innovation in the design approach.

Moreover, the Enterprise Architect shall oversee the roles of the Security, Infrastructure and Integration Architect and ensure seamless integration and communication to the projects led by the Value Stream Architects
Support the Business Engagement and Enterprise Architecture Director by enforcing adherence to IT standards, policies and governance frameworks, execute the long term IT strategy and Enterprise Architecture roadmap
Support Portfolio Management, Project Delivery, Service Delivery and Security Risk Governance teams to deliver projects on time, on budget and to specification (solution)

Provide consultancy services to assist business and IT teams during RFI, RFP, project scoping, project budgeting and high level conceptual design
Provide Group IT strategies, architecture principles and standards

Support development of solution delivery time, resource and cost estimates and advise and enforce key technology decisions
Design (high-level technical) solutions to meet project objectives, business requirements, business capabilities that adhere to best IT practises (fit for purpose, adaptable, future proof, cost efficient, secure, maintainable and supportable)

Identify out of compliance solutions and technical debt (consult with OEM vendors to incorporate their roadmaps into the IT strategy) and propose rectification actions
Create business proposal by scanning the marketplace for innovative and over-the-horizon FMCG / CPG and IT trends and technologies, identify opportunities and define roadmap to implement the digital vision
Participate in IT response teams during major IT incidents (system outage / cyber security)
Facilitate good corporate governance with specific focus on IT and Data & Information governance

Ensure digital technologies are leveraged to transform the organisation into digital business by working with Digital CoE and Business partners to select the right digital opportunities, make the right investments, scope requirements and deliver results based on proof
Create and maintain IT strategy and roadmaps (Application, Cloud, Security, Infrastructure and Information and Data (conceptual, logical and physical data models, metadata models, data lifecycle views, data quality, data profiling and master data architectures)

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