Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Consultant
132733 - Keabetswe Modise
Job Family: Information Technology
Career Stream: IT Architecture
Leadership Pipeline: Manage: Others
Job Purpose: To facilitate the development of future-state architecture and ensure its effective adoption. Provide and identify operational opportunities, overall direction, guidance, and definition of the enterprise architecture that effectively supports business strategies. Advocate and support the enterprise's IT strategy, identifying and analyzing enterprise business drivers, analyzing the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, recommending solutions for improvement, and developing strategies for aligning IT to the business. Act as a trusted technology advisor to the business in realizing the business strategy for the relevant discipline. Responsible for the end-to-end view across both Capabilities and/or Solution Architecture disciplines, ensuring alignment across relevant domains. Works as an advocate and liaises with Information Services and Technology operational teams and the Enterprise Architects researching technology trends.
Job Responsibilities
Facilitate priority setting, project selection, and integration in the organization by providing guiding principles and architecture.
Ensure alignment with emerging Technologies and possible recommendation of new technologies.
Deliver business tasks according to the level of expertise to meet financial objectives.
Address client needs through leading phases of projects or consult to projects and business leaders across a variety of Architecture disciplines.
Build professional relationships, lead and influence in all disciplines of architecture.
Build and maintain relationships within the enterprise and within the larger field of specialty.
Lead the achievement of architecture solutions where an understanding of all disciplines is required.
Monitor and evaluate competitive offerings that could change the domain landscape, affect multiple domains (portfolio of solutions domains), or the broader organization.
Identify the business impact of change and risks associated.
Integrate the change impact into business recommendations and strategic planning.
Adjust recommendations by considering the impact of new initiatives on market perception.
Enable enterprise-wide solutions to integrate well with existing practices by developing mitigating actions and change strategies.
Consider not only the optimizing of the system but also the long-term viability of the system.
Build models around future scenario planning.
Optimize the architectural strategy across various families or portfolios of application or products in the enterprise by taking an enterprise viewpoint.
Effect multiple domains or create new domains, or change the landscape through developing position papers.
Integrate the key principles and issues to build enterprise-wide solutions.
Apply disciplines in a variety of projects in relevant solution domains and across multiple business areas.
Combine multiple perspectives from experience in various roles on multiple developments and architecting projects.
Consider enterprise-wide relevant best practice within the larger financial industry and global economy.
Ensure alignment to the newest trends by monitoring emerging trends and evaluating their potential impact on the broader organization.
Deliver on work tasks for which the impact of the work can only be determined 3-5 years later.
Move the system towards the desired future state through consideration of future scenarios, the macro environment, and an understanding of present operational requirements.
Identify underlying patterns in vague, ambiguous information.
Make judgments based on hypotheses, future scenarios, or educated guesses.
Provide advice to the business across all disciplines.
Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives, and values.
Stay abreast of developments in the field of expertise.
Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities.
Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g., staff surveys, etc.).
Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy.
Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems through agile thinking.
Qualification/s (NQF level / Diploma / Degree)
Essential (required minimum):
Bachelor Degree in either Information Systems or Computer Science
Honours or Masters Degree (or higher) in either Information Systems or Computer Science
TOGAF Foundation Training
TOGAF Certification
Information Technology Architect Certification (ITAC) (Open Group)
Preferred Qualification
Cloud-related certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Certified Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect.
Minimum Experience Level
5+ Years experience in developing strategic IT plans/roadmaps
10+ Years experience in systems design and development
10+ Years experience in Architecture
Advantageous experience (not a disqualifier):
Understanding waterfall and agile methodologies
Skills (Technologies, systems or software knowledge etc.)
Assertiveness and ability to influence and reason with key stakeholders
Able to work in a team environment
Excellent interpersonal skills
Analytical, Logical, Lateral and Creative Thinking
Able to integrate disparate concepts into a cohesive whole
Able to reason at various levels of abstraction
Excellent modelling skills across all ICT models
Good understanding of all levels of ICT infrastructure
Systems thinking
Design thinking and facilitation
Customer Centricity
Team Diversity
Mature collaborator with high levels of EQ.
Must be able to negotiate strong opinions and viewpoints.
Technical / Professional Knowledge
Relevant regulatory knowledge
Relevant software and systems knowledge
Research methodology
Decision-making process
Business writing skills
Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
System Development Life cycle (SDLC)
Unified Modelling Language (UML)
Rational design toolset application
IT Architecture
Behavioural Competencies
Building Partnerships
Communication
Decision Making
Influencing
Innovation
Driving for Results
Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566
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