Closing date : 16 October 2025
Job Family
Information Technology
Career Stream
IT Architecture
Leadership Pipeline
Manage: Others
Job Purpose
To facilitate the development of future-state architecture and ensures its effective adoption. Provide and identify operational opportunities, overall direction, guidance and definition of the enterprise architecture that effectively support business strategies. Advocating and supporting the enterprise's IT strategy, identifying and analysing enterprise business drivers, analysing the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, recommends solutions for improvement and develop strategies for aligning IT to the business. Act as a trusted technology advisor to business in realising the business strategy for the relevant discipline. Responsible for the end-to-end view across both Capabilities and/or Solution Architecture disciplines, ensuring alignment across relevant domains. Works as an advocate and liaises with Information Services and Technology operational teams and the Enterprise Architects researching technology trends.
Job Responsibilities
Facilitate priority setting, project selection and integration in the organisation by providing guiding principles and architecture
Ensure alignment with emerging Technologies and possible recommendation of new technologies
Deliver business tasks according to the level of expertise to meet financial objectives
Address client needs through leading phases of projects or consult to projects and business leaders across a variety of Architecture disciplines
Build professional relationships lead and influence in all disciplines of architecture
Build and maintain relationships within the enterprise and within the larger field of speciality
Lead the achievement of architecture solutions where an understanding of all disciplines is required
Monitor and evaluates competitive offerings that could change the domain landscape, affects multiple domains (portfolio of solutions domains) or the broader organisation
Identify the business impact of change and risks associated
Integrate the change impact into business recommendations and strategic planning
Adjust recommendations by considering the impact of new initiatives on market perception
Enable enterprise wide solutions to integrate well with existing practices by developing mitigating actions and change strategies
Consider not only the optimising of the system, but also the long term viability of the system
Build models around future scenario planning
Optimising the architectural strategy across various families or portfolios of application or products in the enterprise by taking an enterprise viewpoint
Effect multiple domains or create new domains, or changes the landscape through developing of position papers
Integrate the key principals and issues to build enterprise wide solutions
Apply disciplines in a variety of projects in relevant solution domains and across multiple business areas
Combine multiple perspectives from experience in various roles on multiple developments and architecting projects
Considers enterprise wide relevant best practice within the larger financial industry and global economy
Ensure alignment to newest trends by monitors emerging trends and evaluates their potential impact on the broader organisation (The next big things)
Deliver on work tasks for which the impact of the work can only be determined 3-5 years later
Move the system towards the desired future state through consideration of future scenarios, the macro environment and an understanding of present operational requirements to
Identify underlying patterns in vague, ambiguous information
Make judgements based on hypotheses, future scenario's or educated guesses
Provide advise to the business across all disciplines
Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree
Preferred Qualification
Honours or Masters Degree (or higher) in either Information Systems or Computer Science
Preferred Certifications
TOGAF Certification, Information Technology Architect Certification (ITAC) (Open Group)
Minimum Experience Level
15+ Years experience in Enterprise Architecture and
3 Years experience as a Enterprise Architect 1
Technical / Professional Knowledge
Relevant regulatory knowledge
Relevant software and systems knowledge
Research methodology
Decision-making process
Business writing skills
Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
Unified Modelling Language (UML)
Rational design toolset application
IT Architecture
Behavioural Competencies Building Partnerships
Communication
Decision Making
Influencing
Innovation
Driving for Results
- Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566
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