Solution Architect |DISA-DIA-SACON-JHB-0081
Decision Inc · Johannesburg, South Africa
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Scope of Role
Role Title (Level) : Architect (OT)
Department/Function : Digital Technology / Strategy and Governance / Architecture
Business Unit : Chief Technology Office
Role Context and Purpose
The role is accountable for developing Architecture within Digital Technology (DT) across the Operational Technology (OT) domain. This role's purpose is to select new technologies and the effective design of platforms to achieve the required business value via sound architecture principles.
Scale: True global reach, interactions covering all levels (including executive levels), delivery of value with $4 of Ms of potential outcome.
Responsible for developing common architecture consisting of information, data, application, and technology architecture layers for effectively and efficiently realising enterprise and OT strategies by creating key models and practices that describe the baseline and target architectures.
Role Accountabilities
Work Accountabilities:
· Participate in the global process to manage new technology ideas and demands, providing research, analysis, design review and recommendations to leadership.
· Provide design support to projects and business groups to ensure efficient and safe technology architectures are delivered.
· Proactively managing global leader stakeholders in a matrixed organisation; developing a trusted advisor and teaming approach.
· Collaborating with the team to identify, select and implement appropriate solutions.
· Monitor and research emerging innovation with a view to determining functionality that may provide business value to the client.
Define and Maintain Reference Architecture:
· Define/Maintain the architecture repository.
· Select reference viewpoints.
· Select a modelling approach.
· Approve baseline architectural domain descriptions.
· Identify EA building blocks.
· Approve baseline architectures.
· Approve target architectures.
· Define baseline domain architectures.
· Define target domain architectures.
Select opportunities and solutions:
· Confirm key enterprise change attributes.
· Identify possible enterprise drivers.
· Consider EA maturity.
· Review and assess gap analysis.
· Evaluate potential solutions.
· Assess Enterprise dependencies.
· Assess Request for EA Work.
· Identify potential enterprise architecture solutions.
· Identify potential domain architecture solutions.
· Confirm enterprise architecture readiness.
· Formulate high-level implementation and migration strategy.
· Identify EA programmes and projects.
· Develop transition architecture.
· Confirm domain architecture readiness.
Define architecture implementation:
· Validate and prioritise the enterprise architecture implementation and migration plan.
· Confirm transition enterprise architecture increments and phases.
· Define enterprise architecture implementation governance.
· Update architecture Repository.
· Compile enterprise architecture…