(1667) Integration Architect - BSTD at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Define, develop and maintain reference models, principles, standards,frameworks and patterns for integration architecture.
• Define and co-develop high-level target architectures.
• Collaborate with key business, systems and technical stakeholders to develop, implement and harmonise end-to-end solution architecture, ensuring interoperability across business, data, application, technology, integration, infrastructure and security architectures now and in the future.
• Participate in governance forums relevant to the complex IT solutions being delivered from ‘concept to commissioning’.
• Conduct research and provide thought leadership on integration technology and design thinking required to address or simplify complexity of business solutions.
• Identify opportunities for alignment, reuse of patterns and technology components and optimisation of integration technologies across the enterprise, key programmes and projects.
• Identify gaps and assess the impact of architecture decisions, recommendation on adjacent ‘in-flight’ projects that may benefit or be adversely impacted.
• Govern in product selection process, negotiations, contracting and onboarding of external third-party system integrators, software and technology vendors related to delivering complex IT architectures and business solutions.
• Ensure compliance with the SARB’s policies, procedures and other legislative requirements and ensure that risks within the function are identified, assessed and mitigated.
• Ensure alignment between enterprise architecture, other domain architectures and solution architecture

Job requirements

To be considered for these positions, candidates must be in possession of:

• an Honours degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field;
• industry-specific certifications such as TOGAF 9.1 and SABSA Foundation or security industry certifications such as CISSP-ISSAP, GSE and CGEIT; and
• 8−10 years’ experience in architecture domains such as business architecture, data architecture and application architecture, with at least 5 years’ enterprise architecture experience.