Specialist: Business Architect - Centurion at Telkom

Core Description    

• Responsible for consulting and providing support to the core Openserve Enterprise Architecture Management team through interpreting the business requirements and architecture. Also support solution development efforts and IT Governance processes.

Competencies    
Functional Knowledge

• Architecture Guiding Principles; Architecture standards; Business and the business priorities, strategies and current capabilities; Technology; Customer’s technical requirements  

Functional Skills

• Determine architectural implications of the requirements to each of the respective domain architectures; Set strategic architectural direction; Depict the enterprise information conceptually, logically, and physically; Facilitation and communication; Problem Solving; Project Management

Competencies

• Objective; Motivated; Quality Awareness; Proactive; Flexible; Goal Orientated                       
• Values Aligned with Openserve Values

Job Responsibilities    

• Understand key challenges that sponsor, and key stakeholders are facing
• Work with Enterprise Architect to define opportunities that create business value for the enterprise
• Define specific business solutions and structures needed to realize these opportunities
• Work with other architects to explore and define how the proposed solutions will fit into the overall enterprise architecture
• Help define performance goals, metrics, and key milestones for proposed solutions
• Review prototypes, enterprise blueprints, and scope of initiatives to meet business imperatives
• Develop/Confirm Technology Imperatives and Guiding Principles
• Assess Current Capabilities
• Validate Capability Discovery
• Create Business Capability Blueprint
• Identify and Prioritize Opportunities
• Validate Opportunities
• Summarize Blueprint Requirements
• Develop Process Blueprint
• Validate Enterprise Architecture
• Define and Integrate Opportunities into Initial Plan
• Develop Implementation Plans

Required Certification    

• TOGAF

Qualifications    

• Relevant 3 or 4 year Degree/ Diploma (NQF level 6)

Experience    

• 5 Years relevant Business Architecture experience of which at least 2 years on Management (leading teams) level. 

Special Requirements    

• Valid driver's license.
• Ability to work under pressure for long durations
• Communication skills