Enterprise Cloud Architect at Old Mutual

IT Strategy and Planning

• Developing and aligning IT Strategies and Programmes to business objectives
• Defining Strategic Runway Themes for Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture
• Develop required multi-cloud architecture roadmaps containing target and transition landscapes
• Provide input into investment planning to transition the integration architecture and practice
• Aligning cloud architecture roadmaps and runways to business planning and investments
• Define key cloud architecture runway initiatives to be delivered for the intentional cloud architecture
• Participate into business planning, costing and business case definition related to cloud architecture initiatives

Architecture Capability and Design Management

• Develop and maintain the cloud architecture views and viewpoints
• Maintain the cloud artifacts in the set enterprise repository aligned to the rest of the architecture
• Manage the cloud architecture processes based on the requirements for each architype
• Manage change impact of the architecture with stakeholders
• Build the cloud architecture practice with embedded architects and engineers including the relevant methods, repository and tools
• Manage the cloud and related infrastructure architecture transition
• Participate in the architecture practice development
• Apply well-architected frameworks in design reviews

Technology Research and Assessments

• Review trends with regards to the cloud infrastructure and platform technologies
• Determine feasibility of these technologies in the organisational landscape
• Innovate with teams to determine more optimal approaches
• Conduct proof-of-concepts where options have been evaluated and considered feasible to explore
• Product and technology selection options, business case definition and sourcing evaluations

Risk, Governance and Compliance

• Identify and mitigate risks with stakeholders associated with a technology decision, design and implementation
• Ensure that architectures comply with the relevant policies, standards, and regulations
• Align cloud architecture to the risk, compliance and security frameworks
• Conduct and participate in architecture reviews
• Integrate with other governance and compliance functions to ensure continuity in managing the investment and risk for the organisation
• Driving principles, practices, guardrails and standards within Cloud Centre of Excellence
• Maintain a decision register aligned to the enterprise governance on architecture decisions taken

Implementation and Collaboration

• Design multi-cloud solutions and integrations depending on the enterprise architecture requirements with key considerations on transaction alignment, scalability, security, latency, resilience and costs.
• Develop cost effective models and patterns for cloud infrastructure and platform architectures
• Provide standards, guidance, guardrails, frameworks and tools to deliver effectively
• Collaborate with the architects and delivery teams to share knowledge and to ensure the architecture objectives are achieved.
• Manage deviations with teams to reduce the risk to the organisation
• Drive or assist in the determining of architecture options and selections
• Provide related technical specialisation knowledge and experience into the solution design and build implementation
• Update architecture after agile programme increments (Pis)
• Drive continuous delivery and improvement in the architecture approach in retrospectives.

Communication and Knowledge Sharing

• Communicate the up-to-date views for the architecture
• Communicate and collaborate the relevant standards, practices, guardrails and tools to stakeholders
• Ensure that IT teams are well informed or trained in the respective architecture requirements
• Communicate and collaborate with stakeholders' relevant views on planning, technology assessments, risk, compliance, governance and project assessments
• Drive or participate in the relevant Centres of Excellence (CoEs)
• Communicating technology vision and roadmap aligned to the business strategy
• Participate in the architecture collaboration forums

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED FOR THE JOB)

• Matric
• Degree or diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering OR relevant diploma / degree OR 4 to 8 years of relevant work experience

Cloud and Infrastructure Experience:

• Requires a minimum of 5 years in a senior technology role with a proven track record in architecture/design and a minimum of 10-15 years relevant IT experience
• Requires a minimum 10 years related infrastructure/cloud role with relevant experience in infrastructure and cloud technologies such as cloud compute, cloud compute platforms, serverless, cloud migration and modernisation, well-architected frameworks and infrastructure/cloud operations and management.