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- Position type: Permanent
- Salary: R45,000.00 - R60,000.00 per month CTC
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
- The role of the enterprise solution architect (ESA) addresses the conceptual/planning level of the application architecture in collaboration focused on the needs of the technology, business and information architectures
- Be able to model business operations and the systems and databases that support them
- System Architect must be able to build architectures using various frameworks including TOGAF, DoDAF, MODAF and NAF
- Design a breakdown of the system components, how these components interact together, and generally what technologies they employ
- Review, develop and maintain the organisations IT architecture
- Review and evaluate the current state of the organisations architecture (as-is) in order to identify duplications , what is working, what is not working and measure the health of key business processes that are supported by the current architecture
- Build the transition architecture to connect the current to the future state by creating an iterative roadmap to get to the desired state
- Recommend and provide changes to the business in easily digestible iterative changes
- Interface with multiple stakeholders in a company in order to understand requirements, domain, viable technology, and development
- Determining multiple design alternatives, assessing such alternatives based on given or self-defined criteria, and selecting the most suited option to refine to a final design
- Work in liaison with business stakeholders to develop Business Architecture Roadmaps containing tactical and strategic initiatives to reach target business capabilities
- Identify and resolve dependencies and impacts across the architecture landscape
- Interfacing with the user(s) and sponsor(s) and all other stakeholders in order to determine their (evolving) needs
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THE POSITION:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems
- Equivalent experience required TOGAF certification
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED FOR THE POSITION:
- 10 years experience in a related field
- 5 years experience in an Enterprise/Solution Architect role
- Knowledge of the relevant Information Technology governance and legislative framework (such as COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF, SDLC, ASAP, SOA)
COMPETENCIES REQUIRED FOR THE POSITION:
- Analytical thinking
- Negotiation
- Organisational alertness
- Leadership
- Driven to make a difference
- Drives accountability and is a high performer
- Fosters teamwork and collaboration
- Business acumen
- Role models customer focus and customer service
- Innovative
- Quality focused
- Confident with hands-on, can-do approach
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- High attention to detail, self-motivated, creative and flexible
- A good problem solver
TO APPLY: send CV and skills matrix to michelle@compuways.com with the title of this post in the subject line.