Area: Financial sector > JHB central
Rate: R 800000 – R 900000 annually
Global leading bank requires an IT solutions architect to create architectures. These include articulating the architectural vision, conceptualising architectures, defining architecture roadmaps, creating component and interface models, and validating the architecture against requirements and assumptions using flexible architectural approaches
Responsibilities:
- Interprets business and IT strategies into an integrated business process, information, application and infrastructure architectural framework and provides a high level roadmap for the implementation of the architecture (from an As Is to the To Be state)
- Includes the following artifacts that will be developed and / or assembled by the enterprise architects: Application, Information/Data and, to a lesser degree, Infrastructure architectures and models that represent logical and physical views as required and ascribe to agreed architectural Policies, Procedures, Standards, Principals and Objectives
- Lead major company assignments at Senior Management and/or board level
- Provide guidance to large/complex projects via consulting with domain architects and peers involved in implementation projects
- Represent the company as a functional, industry sector and/or consultancy expert
- Influence IT and business stakeholders towards alignment and adoption of the solutions architecture direction and solutions
- Direct the building and maintenance of a architecture transition roadmap.
- Influence the technical community towards adoption of, and alignment with, conceived architectures
- Review architectures (implemented, work in progress and new) for quality, suitability and strategic fit
- Facilitate inter-solutions, inter-project, inter-process and inter programme IT-Architecture integration across the IT systems landscape
- Facilitate the creation, maintenance of and adherence to architectural principles
- Facilitate external input and vendor influence on architecture evolution.
- Provide thought leadership by injecting experience and intellectual capital at appropriate forums
- Operate as IT Architecture design authority
- Facilitate an active communication programme for IT Architecture
- Engage with senior stakeholders and interpret company business and IT strategies and model their effects on related architectural areas (Business process, Information/Data, Application and Infrastructure)
- Assess company change in relation to the documented architectural roadmap and update roadmap as required
- Effect strategic changes to the architecture through appropriate influence at senior levels as well as through the socialisation of well-analysed options, that would include strategic designs and cost: benefit analyses
- Update and maintain IT Strategy in terms of key architectural views and related implications
- Chair required key Architectural forums as required
Contact: If you are interested in this job please send your CV to Bongi Ndlovu with the ref : JNB002491/BN. For more jobs visit the current jobs space on www.mindworx.co.za
