Sales & Marketing Domain Architect at Astron Energy (Pty) Ltd.

The Sales & Marketing Domain Architect is responsible for providing domain knowledge and working alongside the Enterprise Architect in creating the architecture that describes how Sales & Marketing IT components are combined to meet retail front office and back office requirements and capabilities. It is a multi-disciplinary role guiding business, retailers and IT teams to meet project objectives; executing on the IT and Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy taking a long term view that incorporates IT innovation and digital in the design approach. The main deliverable of the domain architect is to support the EA and BRM to ensure selection and deployment of IT solutions that are fit for purpose; support business needs; future proofed; cost efficient; flexible and sustainable.

• Support the Sales & Marketing BRM and the Enterprise Architect by enforcing adherence to IT standards, policies and governance frameworks and execute the long term IT and EA roadmap and strategy
• Work alongside other architects to make long-term, strategic decisions to support the Astron Energy vision and mission
• Support sales and marketing business partners and project management teams; to deliver projects on time; on budget and to specification (solution)
• Provide consultancy services to assist business and IT teams during RFI; RFP; project scoping; project budgeting and high level conceptual design specifically Contract & Project Management
• Ensure compliance to Astron Energy Group IT standards; architecture principles and standards
• Conduct feasibility assessments where requested for proposed application implementations or changes
• Advise, manage and plan for all key technology decisions and changes required
• Support development of solution delivery time, resource and cost estimates
• Design solutions / provide impact assessments to meet project objectives, business requirements, business capabilities that adhere to best IT practices (fit for purpose, adaptable, future proof, cost efficient, secure, maintainable and supportable)
• Participate in governance forums to assess that in house and 3rd party solutions meet IT standards, policies and frameworks that are aligned to the IT and EA roadmap and strategy
• Review solutions after the development and testing phases to ensure that “As Designed” and “As Built” solutions are aligned; rectify design documentation if required
• Identify out of compliance solutions and propose rectification actions
• Scan marketplace for innovative and over-the-horizon energy, retail and digital trends and technologies; convert these into business proposals
• Participate in IT response teams during major IT incidents (system outage / cyber security)
• Facilitate good corporate governance with specific focus on IT governance

Professional Qualification and Certifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field, or equivalent work experience.
• TOGAF or similar architecture certification desirable

 Work Experience

• 10 or more years IT experience in a retail or petro chemical environment including forecourt and pump technologies, ATG’s, POS, Card transaction switching, VAS, Loyalty, Flexilane, TRACs Experience

Knowledge and skills

• Strong strategic planning capabilities – to effectively partner with the sales and marketing support leadership team, the sales and marketing BRM and EA 
• Deep understanding of the retail technology stacks to include OS, DB, middleware, application layer, OT, IoT, virtualisation, and cloud technologies
• Ability to work under pressure, in stressful situations to tight timelines on multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Strategic insight and detailed orientated
• Strong negotiation; interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Background in architecture; application development and operations, business processes and technology 
• Strong vendor and contract management skills
• Thought-leader and change agent
• A ‘can-do’ attitude

Closing Date: 21st, July 2022