Senior Manager: Enterprise Architect - Menlyn at Assupol

Enterprise Architecture

• Develops the overall architecture vision and roadmap
• Develops Enterprise Architecture framework including the identification of technology trends, innovation, governance, strategy, complexities and required competencies to implement the framework
• Acts across business functions and product lines leading architecture in matters concerning business architecture, application architecture, and technology architecture
• Incorporates new models and approaches to support organizations' digital business efforts.
• Formulates the Enterprise Architecture Blueprint to aid key strategic business initiatives
• Standardize Enterprise Data Model and Master Data, and Data Quality
• Develops SOA/ Integration Architecture
• Providing technology guidance through technology architecture helping resolve issues such as reducing complexity, simplifying the underlying technologies and guiding development decisions.
• Develops and drives an enterprise architecture governance framework bringing to drive business outcomes by involving stakeholders from across the organization
• Design major and minor enhancements to the architecture within the existing framework of enterprise-wide or domain-specific applications
• Establish and manage architecture governance through Architecture Review Boards, Design authorities and associated architecture governance processes for to achieve strategy
• Translate and develop business and functional requirements into a multi-tier based tailored solution that includes the user interface, business logic, system-to-system interfaces
• Identifies synergies throughout to ensure that there is no duplication
• Designs and develops the IT framework for the digital transformation aligning it to the Business and Customer requirements in conjunction with the relevant Domain Architects
• Defining and managing the capability for digital transformation
• Ensure solutions that support Mobility & Innovation
• Defines cloud/ on premise strategy.
• Define a discipline and approach for information assets.
• Ensure the effective translation of the security architecture is implemented into the solutions.
• Ensure Compliance to approved policies, processes, procedures and Standards

Legacy application rationalisation and consolidation

• Drive optimization of legacy applicationsfor increased efficiency and reduced costs
• Reduce IT environment complexity and cost through consolidation and rationalization
• Mitigate Risk by leveraging global Legacy transformation
• Consider re-using of existing asset and cost saving in all roadmaps and designs (Driving cost down) to support the IT Departmental objectives

Stakeholder Management

• Manage external vendor relations for initial contract
• Perform functional bridge amongst external vendors as well as internal stakeholders.
• Perform due diligence on potential suppliers and ensure for purpose vendor landscape
• Prepare processes for as well as manage analysis, selection and transition
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the architecture is aligned with the business requirements
•  Develop relationship with lines of Business units to derive business benefits
• Ensures the communication and understanding of the framework by the relevant stakeholders and users

Managing people

• Develop the necessary plans to ensure Architects develop and design applications and technology to meet business requirements
• Evaluation of staff, identify strengths and deficiencies and arrange for necessary action
• Meet and motivate the team, agree on goals and objectives, identify key performance areas and action plan

Requirements

Formal Education:

• IT related degree/diploma
• Microsoft certification
• The Open Group TOGAF 9 Certification
• The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA)
• Cloud architect training and certification
• Systems Security Architecture training

Experience:

• 7 years’ experience in IT Development
• 8 years’ experience in IT systems architect
• 3 years’ experience in Enterprise architecture
• 5 years’ experience in project management
• 5 years’ experience in long term insurance industry