IM Enterprise Architect at Anglo American

Job Description:
The IM Enterprise Architect will assist De Beers to identify the critical solution, related strategies and integrations needed to run and grow the business. They will collaborate closely with business stakeholders and peers across functions to understand challenges and how best to respond.

Key responsibilities include:

• Develop and document the IT enterprise architecture approach for De Beers, based on business and in-flight/emerging solutions strategy and requirements, working closely closely with business stakeholders and peers across functions ensure alignment to the overall (Enterprise Architecture (EA) for Global IM, whilst balancing goals and constraints.
• Manages and drives the development of the Global IM Enterprise Architecture practice and capability.
• Promote the business value of architecture as an enabler of the strategy, and as support for technology innovation, which drives the derivation of business value within De Beers.
• Formulate, translate, advocate, support and execute the relevant Global IM strategy to achieve the organisation’s targeted business outcomes.
• Drive and partake in technology experiments to create new products and services·      
• Determine and articulate the relationship between people, processes, information, technology, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment.
• Provide consultative advice to business leaders and organisational stakeholders in respect of IM Enterprise Architecture.
• Analyse De Beers strategy, priorities, future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect deficiencies and define and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business forward.
• Develop and present gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing De Beers IT estate, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities in respect to ecosystems and digital platforms.

Qualifications:

• An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors degree or equivalent) in the relevant IM, business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study.

Knowledge and experience required:

• Business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis.
• Experience in multiple disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.
• Demonstrated experience and background in delivering coherent strategies taking into consideration the value chain of the business and Enterprise Architecture.
• Ability to translate business needs into architecture requirements.
• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis and risk management.
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, traditional IM landscapes and cloud landscapes and technologies.
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Knowledge of the various components of holistic Enterprise Architecture

Closing Date: 14th, April 2022