Senior IT Architect at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• Defines and maintains architectural standards for the domain-specific development, deployment and management of application, information, communication and technology infrastructure to ensure affordable, cost effective and high quality deployment and utilisation of same. The incumbent in this role is individually accountable for service delivery through own efforts for periods of up to 1 year.
• Governs and assists solution development to enable conformance to the Group (including OMSA) ICT architectural standards.
• (Governs and) assists solution Life Cycle Management to promote adherence to the OMSA ICT Principles (e.g. ¿one-of-anything¿), and synergy across OMSA.
• Proactively practises continuous learning by researching material, selling concepts and generally playing a role that continually challenges the business to operate at new levels of excellence and efficiency.
• Provides ICT consulting to the Group (including OMSA) Technology project teams and clients, with the view to maximise the value and affordability of the data, information, applications and infrastructure.
• Contributes (from an architecture domain perspective) to the development, evolution and maintenance of a detailed OMSA ICT architecture through the involvement of appropriate people, such as business managers, project managers and designers, as well as the key internal and external forums.
• Provides long-term management of the Group (including OMSA) ICT Architecture Strategy to ensure appropriate use of technology and maximum value-realisation, within a particular architecture domain.
• Provides input to and ensures that the Group (including OMSA) ICT architecture aligns with OMSA ICT Strategy, Policies and Principles and is presented and approved through the Group Architecture processes.
• Provides expert advice, and where appropriate, participates in contract negotiations with technology-related suppliers.
• A key differentiator between this and the IT Architect role is the depth and breadth of understanding within an IT domain/across two domains.
• Must be able to consult with and influence members of various executive committees as the senior representative of the architectural team.

Closing Date

17 February 2023