Senior Manager: Solutions Enterprise Architecture at MTN

Job description

Mission

To drive and evolve IT technology architecture (applications and roadmap) which will support the achievement of company strategic goals, priorities, objectives and targets.

KPA's

• Strategic Input
• Develop goals, strategies, and plans needed to achieve the portfolio’s vision and build the capabilities to enable optimal delivery with input from relevant stakeholders
• Align planning against the strategic intent of the company with agreed business outcomes within the portfolio, relevant IT Architecture Enterprise principles, key approved decisions and enterprise wide programs.
• Recommend strategic business opportunities to deliver medium to long-term benefit and growth to the organisation and its customers.
• Influence the technology roadmap defined by Group Technology
• Design and implement frameworks to support acquisition and dissemination of data from/to external sources based on the needs of the organisation
• Investigate strategic IT trends (including initiating and executing relevant proof of concepts) and provides feedback regarding the impact and alignment required.
• Conduct strategic analysis of MTN system strategies to ensure that the strategic technological direction aligns and supports MTN Group objectives.
• Translate the strategic vision into operational requirements and drive the fulfilment of these technical requirements.
• Business Architecture
• Oversees the definition of the As-Is and Target IT Architectures across portfolios and coordinates the work to achieve and maintain these architectures by well documented and communicated roadmaps.
• Provide guidance to programs or large/complex projects via consulting with domain architects and peers involved in implementation projects. Provide guidance to small and medium projects or sub projects within larger projects of moderate complexity.
• Integrate enterprise, business, technology and solution architectures to deliver towards the agreed strategic outcomes.
• Drive development of a systems architecture that describes the complete set of components and interfaces that make up IS application solutions to specified business requirements in a large, complex organisation.
• Analyze technology industry and market trends and determine potential impact upon the business services and processes
• Implementation of an Enterprise Solution Architecture based on business requirements and information technology strategies and trends
• Improve and refine Enterprise Architectures with regards to additional frameworks and strategies required to improve the IT landscape
• Understand the capabilities of all of our licensed software
• Work with group on confirming software assets utilization and future purchases
• Solution Delivery
• Work with Business analysis team to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for the improved uses of information technology and related solutions and applications.
• Lead projects from a technical perspective and take lead accountability for design and delivery of design for cross functional projects
• Consult with infrastructure development projects to fit infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate infrastructure needs
• Evaluate new technologies and products to determine feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities into the Company’s IS systems
• Provide consultancy to process and business analysts at a project level on application, data, security, infrastructure, testing and operational designs through interactions with other MTN architects, applications and operations subject matter experts.
• Develop and maintain project based solution architectures that meet business and IT requirements. These include functionality, processes, data, major products to be used, application interfaces internally and external to MTN.
• Partner with business leaders, IS senior management, and peer-level managers to assess the technological cost and impact of recommended changes, help clarify priorities, and coordinate cross-organizational consortia where common needs have been identified.
• Financial Management
• Compile and manage Capex and Opex budgets relating to architectural activities
• Support CAPEX submissions to ensure that funds are secured
• Assist in the forecasting, planning and development of the architectural budget and
• business plans for IS
• Support the creation of business cases for initiatives and projects in functional areas
• Ensure that all Senior team members are engaging in Vendor Relations and identify opportunities to manage costs and that vendors provide Quarterly reporting
• Ensure that all Senior team members are involved in Contract ownership and that they update a central location with information on what the vendor supplies and requirements on amendments needed (or on new contract) and help drive this with the IS Commercial team
• Governance
• Create and continuously review governing principles to guide information, technology, and solution decision making for the enterprise
• Support Implementation of corporate governance and ensure adherence to it
• Ensure that changes to the current environment are properly documented and tested before promoting into production. Post production changes should be documented and managed.
• Support the prioritisation process to drive prioritisation of requirements and initiatives in functional areas to ensure timeous delivery of requirements
• Support Revenue Assurance functions to understand issues and resolve any revenue issues or leakage
• Project Delivery
• Develop and drive the execution of agreed projects
• Drive the implementation, tracking, monitoring and compliance of Projects
• Contract management in line with Procurement Policie
• Co-ordinate project reporting
• Ensure effective implementation of the integrated project management model
• Risk management
• Business Analysis
• Perform Business Analysis MTN SA Business Analysis in line with the methodology and guidelines
• Identify ways to fine tune policies, processes and systems in line with changing work practices
• Determine, document, and review requirements for projects within the scope of the value stream or impacting processes and systems
• Construct business cases for initiations proposed by the business. Research and consider best practice, local conditions, trends, as well as competitor activity
• Identify and implement innovative ways to use minimum resources to achieve maximum output
• Provide business analysis input and / or solutions to business areas where services span BU’s

Authorities:

• Budget
• Managerial authority
• Recommendations on systems strategies, technologies, frameworks and policies
• Implementation of strategic vision and mission of information technology artefacts

Minimum Requirements

Education:

• Minimum of 4 years tertiary qualification /Masters advantageous
• Business analysis/architecture qualifications
• Managerial courses will be an advantage
• Architectural qualifications (ITIL, TOGAF, TMF, Zachman)
• Fluent in English and language of country preferable

Experience:

• Manager track record of 5 years or more in technical experiences with at least 3 years in technical environment.
• Worked across diverse cultures and geographies advantageous

Training:

• Data warehousing systems
• Business Intelligence systems ,
• People management Skills
• Data visualisation
• Industry related seminars / conferences
• Systems training
• Telco-related training
• Project and programme management
• Product and services
• Presentation skills
• Communication (written and verbal)

Negotiation

IT Specific – Architecture, Networks & Storage infrastructure systems