To design and maintain the enterprise-wide application architecture as guided by the EA
standards, procedures and policies.
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
What do you have to be able to do to achieve the desired results of your job?
Include management and leadership responsibilities for work team leaders
Application Architecture domain establishment
- Interpret and apply approved enterprise architecture principles, policies, procedures in the
architecture work. - Provide guidance on matters related to the application architecture domain, provide domain
driven input in all enterprise architecture services as guided by EA standards, procedures,
and policies. - Establish and maintain the application architecture domain (as-is, to-be and transition
architecture) for the FIC. Perform impact assessment and options analysis as part of EA
facilitation. - Develop and maintain architecture roadmap and application portfolio as part of business
change. - Develop and maintain all application architecture templates, provide input for templates in
other domains for consistency. Present all domain related changes to the organisation’s
Governance structures as guided by policies. - Define domain related position papers to assist in the adoption of new technologies and
standard setting for the organisation.
EA tool administration - Develop, maintain, and or provide input in the establishment of the repository. Maintain the
modelling style guidelines and provide access management. - Publish and create awareness in the organisation on application architecture as part of the
enterprise-wide drive or initiative.
Solution Architecture - Define and design architecture solutions that encompass all architecture domains outlining
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solutions in line with business requirements, enterprise architecture principles, and ICT
standards to ensure standardisation and risk management. - Review and ensure solution architecture designs provide seamless integration, scalability, and security in accordance with the prescribed enterprise architecture. Update and maintain the architecture repository with all architecture artifacts as part of architecture implementation governance.
Project planning and implementation - Contribute to the development and/or evaluation of Terms of Reference documents to assist business and ICT teams during RFI and RFP process.
- Take accountability for the end-to-end delivery of solution/applications/systems and ensure alignment to the approved architecture.
- Develop or provide input to business cases as part of business change.
Stakeholder Management - Work with ICT, and business stakeholders to understand their strategic direction and ensure that the architecture is in alignment in the implementation of such.
- Provide support to the solution architects to ensure that solutions are created and in alignment with the architecture landscape.
- Communication and Collaboration – Have good communication and collaboration skills to effectively work with the various teams and stakeholders.
- Innovation: Keep up to date with the latest technology trends and bring innovative ideas on how the best solutions can be brought into the organisation.
- Business Alignment: Align designed solution with the overall business strategy and ensure it delivers business value.
Desired Skills:
- Same as above
Desired Work Experience:
- 5 to 10 years Technical / Business Architecture
Desired Qualification Level:
- Degree
About The Employer:
EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
– Degree in Computer Science
– TOGAF Certification is a requirement. Knowledge of other frameworks (e.g., Zachman) would be an advantage.
– Minimum three (3) years’ experience in Enterprise Architecture tools like Case wise, Visio,
Sparx Enterprise Architect to maintain an architecture repository.
– Certification in industry-standard platforms and technologies such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud would be an advantage.
– Minimum six (6) years’ experience in developing application architecture designs.
– Minimum six (6) years’ experience in in development of large-scale solutions involving multiple technologies, functions, and interfaces across in-house and vendor supplied application.
– Minimum six (6) years’ experience in designing hybrid (cloud/on-premises) application architecture and integration patterns.
– Solid experience in the development of business cases, performance of impact assessments and options analysis.
– Provide thought leadership, innovation and best practice.
– Experience in solution architecture for (more than one architecture domain in a single project) is an advantage.
– Ability to guide project teams and ensure solutions are developed and deployed in accordance with approved solution architecture is an advantage.
– Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work with cross-functional teams. BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
– Customer Service: Knows the customer’s business and/or seeks information about the real underlying needs of the customer, beyond those initially expressed.
– Flexibility: Decides how to do something based on the situation at hand.
– Impact and Influence: Adapts a presentation or discussion to appeal to the interest or level of others.
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– Organisational commitment: Acts to support the organisations mission and goals.
– Commitment to professional learning: Keeps up to date with international trends that will have an impact on the field of expertise.
– Teamwork: Publicly credits others who have performed well.
– Analytical thinking: Identifies multiple elements of a problem and breaks down each of those elements into detail, showing causal relationships between them.
– Achievement orientation: Sets and works to meet challenging goals.
– Initiative: Demonstrates the ability to anticipate and proactively manage all the variables involved, to ensure that critical opportunities for the FIC are not missed.
Tenacity: Anticipates and takes action to create an opportunity or avoid future crisis , looking ahead within a three month timeframe.