Technology Enterprise Architect
Permanent
Cape Town
A large enterprise in Cape Town is looking to bring on a Technology Enterprise Architect to come in as a proven expert and thought-leader in complex IT transformations and architectures including platform modernization, enterprise systems, digital transformation, cloud deployment, software defined network, etc. The Technology Enterprise Architect will shape the company technology landscape and strategy in partnership with company’s senior technical leadership to enable company’s business strategy focused on innovation and growth.
Your Objectives
Influencing and inspiring strategic stakeholders to champion technology investments
- Acting as a technology evangelist and technology strategist to demonstrate, share and realize technology innovation.
- Using both technology- and business-outcome to facilitate informed conversations with executives to influence priorities and promote investments in technology.
- Leading and motivating the drive for infrastructure modernization, including hybrid multi-cloud, edge computing, containerization and automated, programmable infrastructure.
- Recommending and advising business leaders on the business opportunities and advantages presented by investments in key technologies.
- Providing consultative advice and actionable recommendations to business executives who makes technology investment decisions.
Identifying strategic technology imperatives
- Performing trendspotting on major disruptive technologies and identifying technology imperatives (technology modernization, technology standardization, cybersecurity, cloud, automation, IOT, process mining, DevSecOps, site reliability engineering, etc.) to make recommendations on technology initiatives (POCs, experimentation, technology incubation projects, etc.) that will enable the company with a competitive technology advantage.
- Identifying technology platforms and architectures required to enable digital business products and services.
- Identifying key technology portfolios that support critical business processes and linking technologies to business outcomes.
- Formulating cloud transition strategies considering possible deployment options and implementation challenges.
Shaping and directing enterprise technology selection
- Identifying strategic technology vendors for critical enterprise business solutions and for emerging/trending technologies to enable innovation and differentiation.
- Developing relationship with strategic vendors and influencing them to align their roadmaps to the company’s technology transformation strategy.
- Defining measurable technology outcomes, such as readiness and availability of technology stacks, to business outcomes of critical business processes.
- Defining technology architecture principles that strategically guide the selection, use and deployment of all the company’s technologies.
- Shaping and directing enterprise level technology standards with consideration of the strategic technology vendors.
Formulating technology strategy, architectures, and implementation roadmaps
- Contributing to the IT strategy content and developing an enterprise technology visions and strategy with an implementation roadmap (including Objectives and Key Results) and reference architecture definition that links the achievement of the technology strategy to the business outcomes they support.
- Creating a ready set of technology reference architectures for easy reusability.
- Determining infrastructure technical debt (business, operational, technical and financial fitness) and detecting critical deficiencies in the technology environment to recommend solutions for improvement and prioritization of technology modernization investments.
- Presenting proposed IT technology investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing and required Technology Solutions and its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
- Creating strategic level end-to-end technology and infrastructure architectures for key strategic transformation projects or as needed.
- Conducting assessments and reviews of Enterprise, Domain and Solution architectures as part of the Architecture Review Board, balancing immediate and strategic needs.
Championing the Enterprise Architecture Technology Capability
- Positioning the Enterprise Architecture practice at the intersection of Business and IT and promoting the business value of Enterprise Architecture as an enabler of strategy formulation.
- Leading the creation and maturing of the Enterprise Architecture capability that is a trusted and respected advisory service selected by executives to consult on the development and execution of business and technology strategy.
- Establishing adaptive Enterprise Architecture governance mechanisms that strike a balance between risk and agility.
- Providing active guidance and mentorship to other architects and improving the Enterprise Architecture practice continuously with the wider architecture team.
- Contributing to the development of the Enterprise Architecture Framework and Enterprise Architecture Capability, by detailing and sharing knowledge and standard methodologies with peer Architects.
REQUIREMENTS
- Knowledge creating Enterprise, Domain, and Solution level Architectures and Architecting and designing Technology Platforms, Storage Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, and Cloud Native Solutions
- Cloud expertise / certifications (AWS, Azure)
- 15 years working experience within the IT industry
- 5 years’ experience in:
- deep expertise in cloud technologies, tools, services, hyperscalering offerings, environments and methodologies
- architecting large complex systems within the cyber, digital modernization, and/or software domain
- participating in RFx technology acquisition processes
- contributing technology expertise to IT Programmes, Projects and Products from business analysis, architectures, system analysis and design through development, testing, implementation, and production
- successfully leading architects and technical teams to implement and integrate enterprise level solutions in a complex multi-cloud environment
- collaborating with program managers, project managers, and business stakeholders to delivery technologies
- shaping IT strategy and roadmaps and developing, managing, and implementing technology roadmaps and portfolios
