Group Manager: Solution Architecture (Durban North) at Aspen Pharma Group

Description

• Leads the development of organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration.
• Develops organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration and build.
• Provides resources to ensure systems integration and build can operate effectively and ensures  adoption and adherence to policies and standards.
• Leads the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements.
• Develops organisational capabilities, processes and procedures for automation and continuous integration of build, packaging, testing, security and deployment
• Build and utilising a continuous integration (CI) capability when required employing version control of source code and related artefacts.
• Ensure security and privacy requirements are an essential part of systems integration and build
• Test, validate and sign off of integration to satisfy requirements, architectures and design
• Monitor and control integration activities and recording and reporting on the results of integration
• Keep stakeholders informed and providing feedback into risk management processes
• Develop and test disaster recovery plans and applying incident management processes for major systems integrations.
• Establishes policies, principles and practices for the selection of solution architecture components.
• Manages trade-offs and balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation.
• Communicates proposed decisions to stakeholders.
• Coordinates and manages the target architecture across multiple projects or initiatives.
• Maintains a stable, viable architecture  and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.
• Define the planned operation and maintenance of the solution within a production environment — include changes to services, process, organisation, and operating models as well as technology.
• Ensure that existing and planned solution components are compatible with relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices 
• Considers requirements for security, privacy and testing of solutions
• Taking account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices 
• Identifying appropriate cloud services
• Develops roadmaps to migrate components to cloud services
• Develops and communicating an implementation roadmap 
• Provides guidance and risk-based governance to support solution implementation including managing requests for changes and deviations from specifications.

Requirements
Education:

• Matric / Grade 12
• B.Com / BSc Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience

Experience:

• 10+ years’ experience of managing relationships with internal business customers
• 10+ years’ experience leading teams, internal and 3rd parties in a multivendor approach.

Certifications: 

• Current industry certification in architecture (i.e., TOGAF, Zachman, DevOps, CI/CD etc.)
• Proven experience of managing Enterprise Architecture domains (Application, Business, Data, other) for a multinational entity.
• Proven knowledge in one or more Enterprise platforms, e.g. ERP, integrated ITSM, Regulatory, Cloud Development, etc

Skills and Attributes:

• 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