Job Description

Our client in the insurance industry is currently looking for an Enterprise Architect to join their team on a permanent basis in Sandton.

Duties:

• Contribute to the ICT strategy in terms of Business, Data/Information, Applications, Technology Infrastructure Integration and Security.
• Responsible for a rigorous description of the enterprise - across systems, programmers, and business areas - including its business entities, their properties, and relationships between them and the external environment.
• Oversee and guide the integration of the Architecture Domains. Ensure the architecture of the enterprise is optimized, and all Architecture Domains (Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Application architecture, Technology Architecture) integrate (and inter-operate) in a cost-effective manner, with minimum effort and maximum benefit to the organization.
• Provide vision and insight to proactively assist in defining the direction for strategic IT projects.
• Keep up to date with and have a clear understanding of the capabilities and benefits of new/emerging technologies to apply same in a business context.
• Recommend and participate in the analysis, evaluation, and development of enterprise long-term strategic and operating plans to ensure that Enterprise Architecture objectives are consistent with the organizationxe2x80x99s long-term business objectives.
• Lead technical design sessions with the development teams, including the creation of class models, component models, and detailed design specifications to ensure architecture standards are followed.
• Define technical evaluation criteria for product and technology selection and determine technical approaches to ensure all architectural solutions result in a coherent system design leading to desired customer experiences.
• Share best practices, lessons and constantly update the technical system architecture requirements based on changing technologies, and knowledge related to recent, current and up-coming vendor products and solutions.
• Collaborate with all relevant parties to review the objectives and constraints of each solution and determine conformance with the industry practices.

• Relevant Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Information Technology qualification - Essential.
• MBA - Desirable.
• Relevant post graduate degree - Desirable.
• TOGAF training - Desirable.
• Relevant Architecture framework training/certification - Desirable.
• Specific licensing or registration.
• 7-10 yearsxe2x80x99 experience in technical leadership roles - Essential.
• At least 5 yearsxe2x80x99 senior software programming - Essential.
• Experience in the financial services industry - Desirable.
• Full Software Development Life cycle, rolling out complicated processes.
• Knowledge of underlying IT architectures and technologies.
• Business architectures.
• Applications architectures.
• Data architectures.
• Technical architectures.
• Knowledge of architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, ITIL and COBIT.

• R1mil - 1.1 mil per annum.

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