(580) - Lead Enterprise Architect - BSTD at South African Reserve Bank

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Provide technology guidance, road maps, principles, standards and best practice that support the strategic goals of the SARB, ensure business and IT alignment, and guide Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects and Domain Architects.
• Manage senior client relationships with business customers and committees in respect of architecture and optimisation.
• Analyse how the strategy of a department impacts on the business from the top to the bottom and the implications thereof.
• Define what is required to optimise the strategy across the different domains (data, applications, technology, business, solution) and the resultant solution.
• Plan and monitor the development of solutions for the client department, and advise/give inputs to teams from different disciplines in the execution of their work.
• Provide guidance as an expert in the relevant architecture domain with sound knowledge of other domains.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior management in a department, giving input to strategic planning, and identify solutions to business problems and opportunities for optimisation.
• Monitor and manage associated risks – not just for the department, but also for external stakeholders.
• Lead the established and maintenance reference models and frameworks for the relevant architecture domain.
• Develop business-oriented implementation road maps for the achievement of business strategy, and govern the implementation of those road maps.
• Provide the architecture scope, input and advice to other architecture domain teams.
• Quality-assure and integrate the analysis provided by other business analysts and teams from other domains.
• Perform project-based performance appraisals for team members and provide input in the overall performance evaluations. 
• Perform performance appraisals for the enterprise architecture team based on the organisational scorecard.
• Ensure that the methodologies and analytical tools comply with international guidelines and practices.
• Lead the internal evaluations of methodologies and tools in order to improve and refine their application.
• Use methodologies, tools and practices to optimise the achievement of business strategy and its underlying processes and architecture.
• Negotiate and resolve conflicts, issues and change requirements as they relate to the business architecture and its integration with other domains.
• Lead team engagements within the relevant architecture domain and with other domains to integrate data, analyses, findings and recommendations, and identify cross-cutting risks and requirements.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of: 

• a Master’s degree or an NQF 9-equivalent qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Management, Technology or a related discipline;
• 10–12 years’ experience in at least three architecture domains such as business architecture, data architecture and application architecture;
• IT and business/industry work experience, including architecture design and deployment as well as systems life cycle management;
• leadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders;
• exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments;
• knowledge of all the components of holistic enterprise architecture as well as business re-engineering principles and processes; and 
• basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting.

Additional requirements include:

• experience in developing and leading an adaptive technology strategy for the SARB to optimise technology investment through rationalisation opportunities, managing technical debt and technology life cycle choices;
• understanding large, complex business line and cross-organisational architectures; 
• understanding business strategy enablement through architecture;
• selling architecture to business leaders; and 
• understanding industry emerging technologies and developing road maps that will enable strategy execution.