Strategic Enterprise Architect — Business & Tech Alignment

Boardroom Appointments; Durban; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an Enterprise Architect in Durban to help business and IT leaders balance operational demands with long-term strategic goals. You will analyse the IT ecosystem, identify deficiencies, and propose innovative, cost-effective solutions across Business, Data, Application, and Technology architecture.

The role requires 8 years of IT experience, including 2 years in Business Process Design, plus 5 years of supervisory experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or related IT field.
• 8 years of IT experience with at least 2 years in Business Process Design.
• Experience with process redesign methods and tools.
• 5 years of demonstrated management/supervisory experience in system management.

Responsibilities

• Identifying and analysing the organisation's Business drivers and business development strategies.
• Analysing the current IT ecosystem to detect critical deficiencies and Pain Points.
• Recommending solutions for overall Business and Technology innovation and optimisation/improvement.
• Align with the organisation's technology and governance strategies, policies, and standards or direct necessary changes to these.
• Delivering transition views (models) that are an interim view between the current state and a future state.
• Ensuring that the architecture of the enterprise is optimised and that all Architecture Domains integrate in a cost-effective manner.
• Guiding technology, design patterns, and reusable solution building blocks that make up a Solution Architecture.
• Keeping up to date with capabilities of new technologies to apply in a business context.
• Provide assistance in business case development and feasibility studies.

Skills

IT experience

Business Process Design

Process redesign methods

Supervisory experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related discipline with an Information Technology focus

Job description

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an Enterprise Architect in Durban to help business and IT leaders balance operational demands with long-term strategic goals. You will analyse the IT ecosystem, identify deficiencies, and propose innovative, cost-effective solutions across Business, Data, Application, and Technology architecture.

The role requires 8 years of IT experience, including 2 years in Business Process Design, plus 5 years of supervisory experience.