Enterprise Architect

IT Ridge Technologies; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

An IT company is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the conceptual and planning stages of application architecture. The role focuses on ensuring the evolution of the application portfolio, optimizing application solutions, and collaborating across disciplines to define and implement IT architecture standards and policies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent.
• TOGAF certification required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure application portfolio evolves with changing architectures.
• Design solutions aligned with business requirements.
• Review and maintain the organization's IT architecture.

Skills

IT governance knowledge

Legislative frameworks understanding

Application architecture expertise

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Equivalent experience

TOGAF certification

Job description

The role of the enterprise architect (ESA) addresses the conceptual and planning level of application architecture in collaboration with other architects focusing on technology, business, and information architectures.

Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring the application portfolio evolves appropriately without becoming unviable as related architectures change.
• Providing reusable standards, guidelines, patterns, and frameworks for application development projects, including application architecture.
• Optimizing application solution architecture by working with subject matter experts (SMEs) in technology, information, and application architectures.
• Designing application interfaces and software services to maximize reuse based on business processes and governance rules for sharing.
• Limiting development choices by establishing standard frameworks and pursuing consistent application development practices.
• Recognizing potential reuse within the organization by understanding the broader system environment and creating component designs.
• Breaking down complex applications into manageable components, understanding their functions, interactions, and dependencies, and communicating these to developers.
• Reviewing, developing, and maintaining the organization's IT architecture, assessing its current state ('as-is'), identifying duplications, inefficiencies, and measuring process health.
• Building transition architectures and creating iterative roadmaps to move from current to future states.
• Recommending and implementing incremental changes in collaboration with business stakeholders to develop Business Architecture Roadmaps with strategic initiatives.
• Designing solutions aligned with business requirements, reference architecture policies, and standards.
• Providing expertise in designing solutions for custom requirements and collaborating with stakeholders for reviews.
• Defining and evolving enterprise architecture policies and standards, coordinating project pipeline management with the PMO.
• Engaging with peers across disciplines during implementation and reviewing the future state enterprise architecture lifecycle.

Qualifications required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• TOGAF certification.

Experience required:

• At least 10 years in a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years in an Enterprise or Solution Architect role.
• Knowledge of IT governance and legislative frameworks such as COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF, SDLC, ASAP, SOA.