Enterprise Digital Architect at Old Mutual

IT Strategy and Planning

• Developing and aligning IT Strategies and Programmes to business objectives
• Defining Strategic Runway Themes
• Develop required architecture roadmaps containing target and transition landscapes
• Provide input into investment planning for the relevant landscape
• Aligning architecture roadmaps and runways to business planning and investments
• Define key architecture runway initiatives to be delivered for the intentional architecture
• Participate into business planning, costing and business case definition related to architecture initiatives
• Ensure architecture artefacts are lightweight, consumable, and decision-focused rather than shelfware.
• Guide and mentor embedded architects and engineers to uplift architectural maturity

Architecture Capability and Design Management

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture views and viewpoints
• Maintain the artifacts in the set enterprise repository aligned to the rest of the architecture
• Manage the architecture processes based on the requirements for each architype
• Manage change impact of the architecture with stakeholders
• Build the architecture practice with embedded architects and engineers including the relevant methods, repository and tools
• Manage the architecture across business, application, information and data as well as technology
• Participate in the architecture practice development

Technology Research and Assessments

• Review trends with regards to the technology domain and technologies related to business capabilities
• 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
• 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 Centres of Enablement
• Maintain a decision register aligned to the enterprise governance on architecture decisions taken
• Maintain an authoritative architecture decision register aligned to enterprise governance

Implementation Guidance and Collaboration

• Provide standards, guidance, guardrails, frameworks and tools to deliver effectively
• Collaborate with the 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 determine of the architecture options and selections
• Provide technical specialisation knowledge and experience into the solution design and build implementation
• Update architecture after programme increments (Pis)

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
• Operate effectively in an agile delivery environment, balancing intentional architecture with emergent design

Technology and Platform Expectations

• The Enterprise Architect is expected to be fluent in modern cloud-native platforms and architectural patterns, including:
• Deep architectural experience with AWS in multi-account, regulated environments
• Strong understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework
• AWS core services (VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB)
• Integration and messaging patterns (API Gateway, EventBridge, SNS, SQS)
• Observability and operational patterns (logging, monitoring, alerting)
• Security and compliance services (KMS, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, Config)
• DevSecOps and CI/CD concepts at architectural level
• Infrastructure as Code concepts (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
• Cost-aware architecture design informed by FinOps principles

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED FOR THE JOB)

• Matric
• Degree or diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering OR relevant diploma / degree
• 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
• Preferable experience: 10 years architecture experience

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE (PREFERRED, NOT A REQUIREMENT)

• TOGAF
• ArchiMate
• Cloud Certifications (AWS, Azure)
• Financial Industry Experience