Technical Architect - IT
Industry: Finance / Job Expires: 2021-04-23 07:33:35 / Location: Gauteng
Main Purpose:
- To guide the delivery of solutions aligned with the Enterprise Architecture and act as a technology subject matter expert.
Minimum Requirements:
- Diploma or Degree IT
- 3 years experience in IT
- Experience in Enterprise Architecture solutions
- Knowledge of architecture, design and development methodologies
- Data modelling & IT Development (multiple programming languages advantageous)
- Information security & Infrastructure analysis and design (virtualisation advantageous)
- Performance Management is key.
- Relational databases (SQL Server and DB2 advantageous)
- Written and verbal communication skills
Key Performance:
- Solutions aligned with the Enterprise Architecture
1. Analyse requirements in the form of specifications, business cases and incidents
2. Design candidate solution architectures
3. Participate in architecture review
4. Generate a work breakdown structure for the selected solution architecture
5. Plan and sequence work items to be completed to implement the selected solution architecture
6. Execute on the plan, participate in the delivery and optimise the process
7. Define, establish and operate an architecture review committee
- 2 - Technology evaluation
1. Build business cases for capabilities
2. Define selection and assessment criteria
3. Identify candidate technologies that provide desired capabilities
4. Engage with technology vendors
5. Facilitate Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Technology (POT) engagements
6. Facilitate Request for Proposal (RFP) engagements
- 3 - Mentorship
1. Identify technological skills weaknesses
2. Identify and define approaches to address shortcomings
3. Plan the execution of knowledge transfer and knowledge creation initiatives
4. Guide team members and promote the personal and professional growth of the team
- 4 - Service and IT governance
1. Define key service and IT governance objectives
2. Define service and IT governance policies
3. Assess initiatives for governance requirements
4. Enforce service and IT governance policies
5. Establish and maintain service inventory
6. Classify services according to capabilities
- 5 - IT and business support
1. Assess landed systems
2. Define and motivate system enhancements
3. Align enhancements with Enterprise Architecture roadmap
4. Design and implement enhancements
5. Investigate and identify the root cause of incorrect IT system behaviour
6. Design and implement remediation measures for incidents.
- 6 - Research
1. Identify topics of potential interest to the organisation such as industry trends and state-of-the-art technology
2. Identify topics of interest to the organisation relating to existing technology and processes
3. Prepare a proposal for research work
4. Research topics, document the results and commit the output to a body of knowledge
5. Apply research findings to the analysis phase of upcoming initiatives
6. Apply research findings to ongoing implementation efforts
7. Apply research findings to planning for future initiatives
- 7 - Compliance
1. Analyse and interpret regulatory and compliance requirements in the form of specifications and regulations
2. Conduct impact analyses
3. Advise on impact and approach to mitigate risk.
To apply please send your cv to info@heitha.co.za. NB Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.