Technology Architect - Department of Information Technology Services at University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The successful candidate’s responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Set and describe architecture through technology roadmaps:

• Create an understanding of the enterprise, business system, business process, and industry to the team(s) supporting or interfacing with the technology landscape; 
• Maintain current knowledge of all relevant technology developments and seek opportunities to deploy new technologies that benefit UP in a knowledge repository library;
• Map business requirements to technology capability, identify gaps and omissions in the end-to-end solution, and review on going and proposed projects to identify opportunities for reuse and process improvement; 

Manage the Project Start Architecture process:

• Compile and submit the Project Start Architecture documentation to the Enterprise Architecture Review Board for approval;
• Ensure compliance of project delivery to the agreed architecture;
• Review and integrate all requirements for the technology landscape, including functional, security, usability, performance, quality, and operations requirements;
• Review and integrate changes to the technical architecture for the development, execution, and operations environments;

Technology investigations:

• Research and evaluate new technologies and trends, generating possible recommendations for use in supporting the business objectives for optimisation; 
• Review and integrate changes to the technical architecture for the development, execution, and operations environments;
• Make final recommendations regarding hardware, network products, system software, integration, and security;

Manage the security architecture function:

• Develop an information security architecture;
• Manage IT Security Manager and ensure that activities enhance the IT security of the University;
• Grow the maturity of the security architecture function, and the IT security environment; 
• Manage the human resources function; 

Run the Enterprise Architecture process:

• Create architecture baseline, and define the complete technical environment;
• Consult with technical resources for methods, procedures, and standards to use during solution development;
• Contribute to the ITS strategic plan and budget; 
• Manage and chair the Enterprise Architecture Forum, including documentation, collaboration space, meeting agenda/minutes, deviation processes and communication with the Architecture Board;

Architecture diagrams:

• Obtain the relevant information for the development of architectural diagrams for all technologies or projects, which will be referred for approval and publishing;
• Contextualise the architecture diagrams within the installed-technology landscape;
• Integrate the architecture diagrams in the Project Start architecture. 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• A relevant four-year Honours degree / Postgraduate diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electronic Engineering, or IT Management Sciences; with:
• A total of six years’ experience, with two years in management, in / as:
• An Enterprise / Solutions / Technology Architect, with a sound understanding of the theoretical body of knowledge for Enterprise Architecture (e.g. Zachman, Ross, TOGAF);
• Designing, building and operating IT systems (including IT infrastructure and applications);
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Certificate, or equivalent architectural certification;

OR 

• A relevant Bachelors / BTech degree; with:
• A total of eight years’ experience, with three years in management, in / as:
• An Enterprise / Solutions / Technology Architect, with a sound understanding of the theoretical body of knowledge for Enterprise Architecture (e.g. Zachman, Ross, TOGAF);
• Designing, building and operating IT systems (including IT infrastructure and applications);
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Certificate, or equivalent architectural certification.