Executive Head: Huawei Cloud Solutions & Services at Aspen Medical

ROLE PURPOSE

Strategic, Tactical and Operational role in the Digital Technology organization and is accountable for the design and communication of high-level structures to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs. In addition to technology components, solution architecture encompasses changes to service, process, organization, and operating models. The provision of comprehensive guidance on the development of, and modifications to solution components to ensure that they consider the relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) and that existing and planned solution components remain compatible, i.e., product ownership.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• Leads the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.
• Within a change programme, leads the preparation of technical plans and, in liaison with business assurance and project staff, ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available.
• Provides advice on technical aspects of solution development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
• Defines systems development projects which support the organization’s objectives and plans.
• Takes full responsibility for business analysis within the application area of the organisation where the advice given, and decisions made will have a measurable impact on the profitability or effectiveness of the organisation.
• Leads the selection of appropriate business analysis methods, tools, techniques; selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches.
• Establishes the contribution that technology can make to business objectives, defining strategies, validating and justifying business needs, conducting feasibility studies, producing high-level and detailed business models, preparing business cases, overseeing development and implementation of solutions, taking into account the implications of change on the organisation and all stakeholders.
• Guides senior management towards accepting change brought about through process and organisational change.

Education Qualifications And Experience

• Matric / Grade 12
• B.Com / BSc Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience
• Current industry certification in architecture (i.e., TOGAF, GxP, ISO 9000)
• Business Process Management Methodology (i.e., BPM, SDLC, ITIL, DevOps, Agile, COBIT)
• 10+ years’ experience of managing relationships with internal business customers
• Experience and sound knowledge of Business processes, best practises in solution delivery, auditing and assurance practices and improvement practices
• 10+ years’ experience managing customer relationships in an operational and global services and automation in a large complex/matrix global organisation
• 10+ years’ experience in various Applications from a plan, build and run perspective
• 10+ years’ experience leading and influencing customers and matching needs to solutions
• 8+ years’ experience in solution architecture development and management

Skills And Attribbutes

• Innovation
• Visioning
• Strategic planning
• Global thinking
• Entrepreneurial thinking
• Teamwork
• Initiative
• Results oriented
• Systems thinking
• Focused
• Problem-solving and good judgment
• Responsibility and accountability
• Cooperation
• Proactive
• Resilience
• Active listening skills
• Presentation skills
• Meeting facilitation
• Organisational awareness
• Influence skills
• Pragmatic
• Empathy

KNOWLEDGE

• Technical/professional knowledge
• Industry knowledge

ASPEN COMPETENCIES

Business

• Create the Future
• Accountability/ Ownership

People

• Communicate Effectively
• Dealing with ambiguity Embrace Change

Self

• Contribute Special Expertise
• Take Action with Integrity