Senior Architect at AngloGold Ashanti

Qualifications: 

Bachelor's Degree in IT related fields

Experience:

• 10+ years in a corporate IT environment in senior leadership roles
• 10+ years' experience in IT technology architecture
• 10+ years’ experience in ERP architecture and deployment
• Experience in a related technical field (application development, deployment/implementation, and infrastructure)

Certificates:

• Certifications preferred but not required:
• TOGAF or equivalent Architecture qualification.
• MDP / MBA or equivalent management qualification

Work Accountabilities:

• Participate in the global process to manage new technology ideas and demands, providing research, analysis, design review and recommendations to leadership.
• Provide design support to projects and business groups to ensure efficient and safe technology architectures are delivered.
• Proactively managing global leader stakeholders in a matrixed organisation; developing a trusted advisor and teaming approach
• Collaborating with the team to identify, select and implement appropriate solutions.
• Monitor and research emerging innovation with a view to determining functionality that may provide business value to AGA.

Contribute to Defining Enterprise Architecture vision:

• Provide input into key enterprise requirements and constraints.
• Analyse External Influences (Disruptive Forces, Technology Trends etc.)
• Provide input into enterprise architecture objectives.
• Provide input to align EA objectives with strategic programme priorities.
• Assess enterprise capabilities.
• Assess enterprise readiness for change.
• Provide input into defining baseline and target architecture scope.
• Contribute to architecture principles.
• Identify DT related EA opportunities.
• Contribute to EA Vision
• Contribute to architecture value proposition and principles.
• Contribute to Enterprise Architecture KPI’s and metrics.
• Contribute to the Assessment of Enterprise Architecture risk.

Define and Maintain Reference Architecture:

• Define/Maintain the architecture repository.
• Select reference viewpoints.
• Select a modelling approach.
• Approve baseline architectural domain descriptions.
• Identify EA building blocks.
• Approve baseline architectures.
• Approve target architectures.
• Define baseline domain architectures.
• Define target domain architectures.

Select opportunities and solutions:

• Confirm key enterprise change attributes.
• Identify possible enterprise drivers.
• Consider EA maturity.
• Review and assess gap analysis.
• Evaluate potential solutions.
• Assess Enterprise dependencies.
• Assess Request for EA Work.
• Identify potential enterprise architecture solutions.
• Identify potential domain architecture solutions.
• Confirm enterprise architecture readiness.
• Formulate high-level implementation and migration strategy.
• Identify EA programmes and projects.
• Develop transition architecture.
• Confirm domain architecture readiness.

Define architecture implementation:

• Validate and prioritise the enterprise architecture implementation and migration plan.
• Confirm transition enterprise architecture increments and phases.
• Define enterprise architecture implementation governance.
• Update Architecture Repository.
• Compile enterprise architecture implementation roadmap.
• Obtain approval of architecture roadmap.
• Define domain architecture implementation governance.
• Compile domain architecture implementation roadmap.
• Validate and prioritise the domain architecture implementation and migration plan.
• Confirm transition domain architecture increments and phases.