Enterprise Architect

Boardroom Appointments; Kempton Park; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to design and maintain our architecture framework, ensuring alignment with business goals. You will drive technology strategy, governance, and risk management while mentoring junior teams.

Responsibilities include evaluating new technologies, integrating systems, reducing tech debt, and developing roadmaps for scalable, secure platforms with high availability and DR capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in enterprise architecture, IT infrastructure, or systems architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework and strategy.
• Reduce technical debt to maintain agility for solutions.
• Evaluate technologies and lead integration with legacy systems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and align solutions.
• Design scalable, secure systems with high availability and disaster recovery.
• Define and enforce enterprise architecture standards, governance practices.
• Develop short, medium, and long-term technology roadmaps.
• Lead and mentor junior architects and technical teams.
• Identify and mitigate risks and provide strategic recommendations.
• Stay updated on trends and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

IT infrastructure

Systems architecture

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in CS/IT

Job description

• Bachelors or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or any other related field.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in enterprise architecture, IT infrastructure, or systems architecture.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Develop and Maintain Enterprise Architecture: Design and maintain the enterprise architecture framework and strategy, including current and future state architectures, ensuring alignment with the company's business goals and objectives.

Reduce Technical Debt: Ensure that the enterprise architecture does not hamper the businesss goals by reducing the agility of the Tech team to provide solutions.

Technology Evaluation and Integration: Evaluate current technology solutions and propose new technologies that align with business needs. Lead the integration of new systems with legacy systems, ensuring seamless functionality and performance, and where possible, decommissioning legacy systems in order to provide a simplified technology solution.

Collaboration with Stakeholders: Work closely with business leaders, IT teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and provide architectural solutions that support business growth and innovation.

Design Scalable and Secure Systems: Lead the design and implementation of scalable, flexible, and secure technology solutions that can evolve with the business. Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and security protocols are in place.

Governance and Standards: Define and enforce enterprise architecture standards, methodologies, and governance practices to ensure consistency, quality, and compliance across all projects.

Strategic Planning and Roadmap Development: Develop a short, medium, and long-term strategic roadmap for technology evolution, focusing on improvements in efficiency, cost savings, and innovation.

Lead and Mentor Teams: Guide and mentor junior architects and technical teams in architectural best practices, methodologies, and technologies.

Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks associated with architectural decisions and technology implementations. Provide strategic recommendations to mitigate potential issues.

Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with the latest technology trends, best practices, and tools. Recommend improvements and innovations to the enterprise architecture to enhance performance, security, and overall business value.