Job Purpose
Develop and regularly maintain a future-state Domain and /or ICT vision in line with the organization's Business and IT Strategies - as well as the roadmap for transforming between current and future Domain vision and or ICT vision
Qualification Required
- Matric
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
- ITIL
- Relevant technical qualification/ certification or equivalent experience
Experience Required
- Min 15 years experience in an IT environment across infrastructures of which at least 5 years as Technology Domain Specialist II at clients' sites.
- Information Technology concepts
- IT Solutions Architecture
- IT Infrastructure Architecture
- Knowledge of multiple technologies
- IT Risk and security principles
- Multiple operating systems
- Systems Analysis and design
- GT-specific operational knowledge
- Govern the development and ongoing review and update of the organization's Domain Principles
- Govern the Architecture Review Board and the regular meeting of this board to ensure Solution Architecture alignment with ICT Principles, ICT Standards, and Future State Vision
- Participate in the Architecture Review Board to ensure Solution Architecture alignment with Domain Principles, Standards, and Future State Vision
- Governance of Innovation Ideation and the promotion of innovative ideas to Proof of Concept and Pilot Projects
- Work with operational teams to determine opportunities for improvement and define business requirements.
- Ensure continuous alignment between architectural delivery and the operational implementation and integrity of IT systems.
- Provide leadership and vision for the optimization and rationalization of ICT infrastructure - aimed at increasing capability and/or IT cost savings and/or IT Service Levels.
- Provide an Enterprise Architecture Centre of Excellence capability to the organization
- Provide mentorship and coaching to all Architecture teams within the organization
- Develop and regularly review and where necessary recommend updates to the organization's Domain standards the organization's IT Strategy and the ongoing maintenance thereof w.r.t. emerging technology utilization
- Facilitate the organization's knowledge and understanding of current and emerging technology - and how it can be leveraged for maximum business benefit
- Calculate the organization's Domain Technical Debt and ensure this is regularly communicated to the Head of Architecture
- Pro-actively recommend changes to Domain implementations to introduce new
- Calculate Business Cases and Impact Assessments for emerging technology deployments to meet business needs as directed by Business demand,
- Facilitate regular Innovation Days and Innovation Workshops for a detailed understanding of emerging technology capability
- Assist in the development of Cloud Solution Architectures requiring Domain technologies and ensure alignment across Architectural disciplines and Solution domains
- Identifies the risk of proposed change impact and develops mitigating actions to enable Enterprise-wide solutions
- Monitor emerging cloud trends and evaluate their potential impact on the broader organization
- Ensure alignment across Architectural disciplines and Solution domains
- Conduct Issue/Dispute resolution across Architectural disciplines
- Lead the achievement of Cloud Architecture Solutions across multiple disciplines and domains
- Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives, and values
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems through agile thinking.
- Decision Making
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills Influencing
- Building Partnerships
- Adaptability
- Emotional Intelligence Essentials
- Building Trusting Relationship
- Systems Analysis
- Complex Problem Solving
- Programming
- C#
- Java
- SQL
- HTML
