Cloud Solution Architect

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Job Description


Key Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Develop and regularly maintain a future-state Domain and /or ICT vision in line with the organisation's Business and IT Strategies - as well as the roadmap for transforming between current and future Domain vision and or ICT vision
  • Govern the development and ongoing review and update of the organisation's Domain Principles
  • Govern the Architecture Review Board and the regular meeting of this board to ensure Solution Architecture alignment with ICT Principles, ICT Standards and Future State Vision
  • Participate in the Architecture Review Board to ensure Solution Architecture alignment with Domain Principles, Standards and Future State Vision
  • Governance of Innovation Ideation and the promotion of innovation ideas to Proof of Concept and Pilot Projects
  • Work with operational teams to determine opportunities for improvement and define business requirements.
  • Ensure continuous alignment between architectural delivery and the operational implementation and integrity of IT systems.
  • Provide leadership and vision for the optimisation and rationalisation of ICT infrastructure - aimed at increasing capability and/or IT cost savings and/or IT Service Levels.
  • Provide an Enterprise Architecture Centre of Excellence capability to the organisation
  • Provide mentorship and coaching to all Architecture teams within the organisation
  • Develop and regularly review and where necessary recommend updates to the organisation's Domain standards the organisation's IT Strategy and the on-going maintenance thereof w.r.t. emerging technology utilisation
  • Facilitate the organisation's knowledge and understanding of current and emerging technology - and how it can be leveraged for maximum business benefit
  • Calculate the organisation's Domain Technical Debt and ensure this is regularly communicated to the Head of Architecture
  • Pro-actively recommend changes to Domain implementations to introduce new functionality, reduce IT Cost or improve levels of Service
  • Calculate Business Cases and Impact Assessments for emerging technology deployments to meet business need as directed by Business demand,
  • Facilitate regular Innovation Days and Innovation Workshops for detailed understanding of emerging technology capability
  • Assist in the development of Cloud Solution Architectures requiring Domain technologies and ensure alignment across Architectural disciplines and Solution domains
  • Identifies the risk of proposed change impact and develops mitigating actions to enable Enterprise wide solutions
  • Monitor emerging cloud trends and evaluates their potential impact on the broader organisation
  • Ensure alignment across Architectural disciplines and Solution domains
  • Conduct Issue/Dispute resolution across Architectural disciplines
  • Lead the achievement of Cloud Architecture Solution across multiple disciplines and domains
  • Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
  • Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:
  • Solid knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OSs and infrastructure designs
  • Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
  • Knowledgeable on how specific infrastructures and application software are deployed in line with relevant methodologies and frameworks
  • Ability to develop and leverage their knowledge of reference architectures
  • Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
  • Qualification in Information Technology or Information Systems
  • Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.)
  • SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous
  • AWS, Azure

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1305595
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Education
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