Midrand, South Africa | Posted on 18/12/2024
The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and maintaining the organization's enterprise architecture, ensuring alignment between business strategy and IT infrastructure.
This role focuses on business, information, application, technology, and security architecture, while establishing governance processes and maintaining consistency across all domains.
The successful candidate will ensure that all enterprise architecture initiatives align with recognized frameworks, such as TOGAF, to deliver operational efficiency, data integrity, and security.
Key Responsibilities: Business Architecture Define and structure the organization's business processes, functions, capabilities, and strategies.
Develop models and roadmaps to ensure alignment with the overall business objectives.
Collaborate with stakeholders to optimize business processes and capabilities.
Organize, manage, and ensure the accuracy, accessibility, and security of the organization's data assets.
Develop frameworks for data governance, classification, and lifecycle management.
Define policies to ensure effective data integration, management, and utilization.
Define the structure and interaction of software applications that support core business processes.
Ensure seamless integration and interoperability of applications across the enterprise.
Oversee the selection and design of application solutions that meet business requirements.
Technology Architecture Establish and design the technical infrastructure that supports applications and business processes.
Ensure that infrastructure solutions align with business needs and future scalability.
Recommend technology standards, platforms, and solutions to improve operational efficiency.
Security Architecture Develop and implement strategies to protect organizational assets, data, and infrastructure from security threats.
Define security controls and standards to mitigate risks and ensure compliance with regulations.
Collaborate with IT security teams to oversee the implementation of security policies.
Governance and Standards Define rules, processes, and standards that guide decision-making and ensure consistency across enterprise architecture domains.
Monitor and enforce compliance with enterprise architecture frameworks and best practices.
Establish governance processes to facilitate stakeholder alignment and architecture reviews.
Framework Alignment Ensure enterprise architecture initiatives align with recognized frameworks, such as TOGAF, to maintain consistency and quality.
Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts, including blueprints, roadmaps, and models.
Provide thought leadership in the adoption and implementation of architecture standards.
RequirementsSkills and Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
Relevant certifications in Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) are essential.
Proven experience in enterprise architecture, including business, information, application, technology, and security domains.
Strong understanding of data governance, IT infrastructure, and system integration principles.
Experience in developing architecture models, roadmaps, and strategies to align IT with business goals.
Proficiency in enterprise architecture tools and frameworks.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information to non-technical stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage multiple priorities.
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