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Responsible for leading and continuously improving an information technology functional operating model and framework in a broadly defined group functional strategy; enabling horizontal alignment, implementation, and adoption within IT storage management and databases.
Key Responsibilities
Contribute to strategy enablement and implementation and delivery optimisation across an internal value chain, through best practice development and implementation.
Develop alternatives and identify optimal best practice solutions for tactical problems.
Develops and maintains procedures and documentation for databases. Contributes to the setting of standards for definition, security and integrity of database objects and ensures conformance to these standards.
Work with Product Management and service providers to ensure economic prioritisation and demand-to-capacity matching.
Own domain-specific Disaster Recovery strategy, testing and execution aligned to the broader enterprise Business Continuity Management context.
Lead Domain specific strategy development and implementation, governance, delivery execution and IT operations in the enterprise (end-to-end ownership) in storage and data based on the level of criticality of the information.
Work with System Architect/Engineering to understand Enabler work to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the technological infrastructures that will host the new business functionality.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Information Technology and Computer Sciences.
Skilled in Agile Methodology.
Preferred - SAFe Agilist (Leading SAFe).
Preferred - AWS Certified Solutions Architect .
Associate Certification.
Preferred - Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals.
Minimum Experience
5 - 8 years experience in a similar environment, of which 2 - 3 years at specialist level.
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