Technology Enterprise Architect at African Parks Network

• The technical documentation and EA illustrations allow for logical, physical, virtual and technical diagrams to show how systems will be accommodated for, how information moves between them and how technical hosting of these systems accommodate the operation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Definition, implementation, and execution of the processes for the definition, maintenance, and conformance management of AP’s systems architecture.
• Ensure all systems and business system owners understand the operating model of the systems and their touch-points between each other.
• Define the system of systems enterprise architecture diagrams that illustrate the integrations, virtual, physical and logical views of the platforms.
• Consult system vendors ensure contractual obligations define constraints and API, integration management.
• Ensure business representatives have data custodians for the management and reconciliation of data between core systems (such as finance and payroll), to ensure data integrity is audited and validated each financial cycle.
• Error management controls and procedures are in place and both technical teams and vendors understand their role in maintaining production systems.
• Disaster recovery procedures and business continuity is in place and tested where systems are reliant on underlying hosting within AP.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Enterprise Architecture diagrams
• API, middleware, store & forward queue definitions and ownership/ role agreement
• Error management: review, identification, resolution and reporting
• Vendor roles and responsibilities
• Technology, Super user and external vendor responsibilities
• Data integrity profiling and review frequency protocols
• Data warehouse platform architecture, the interfaces to downstream and upstream, the normalization/ data relational structure mapping to APIs
• Network management – WAN, WWAN, VPN, LAN standards and SOP
• Network monitoring solution – dashboards and notifications (incl escalation)

KEY RELATIONSHIP

Key stakeholders

• Technology Vendors and Partners
• Technology Management
• Business System Owners
• Super Users
• Regional Technology Teams
• Park Technology Officers

Indirect stakeholders

• End users
• Park management
• Peripheral IT suppliers and services
• Regional office staff
• Audit and risk team

JOB SPECIFICATION

• Engages business, system vendors, technology teams and defines the architecture models that illustrate the integrations, the security, network and hosting requirements.
• Security constraints, data segregation, data flows and data management for store-and-forward queues for offline management of systems.
• Design network device management and monitoring and systems accessibility management.
• The consultant in business process analysis and design, and service delivery, particularly with respect to the use of master data management to align business rules.
• Consults business systems owners to advise of constraints or rules that are dependent on physical system interoperability to ensure procures and rules are in place to govern data integrity.

Job Requirements
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS (Formal artifacts/ documents)

• Enterprise Architecture diagrams
• API, middleware, store & forward queue definitions and ownership/ role agreement
• Error management: review, identification, resolution and reporting
• Vendor roles and responsibilities
• Technology, Super user and external vendor responsibilities
• Data integrity profiling and review frequency protocols
• Data warehouse platform architecture, the interfaces to downstream and upstream, the normalization/ data relational structure mapping to APIs
• Network management – WAN, WWAN, VPN, LAN standards and SOP
• Network monitoring solution – dashboards and notifications (incl escalation)