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Job title : Group Manager: Solution Architecture (Durban North)
Job Location : KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
Deadline : October 18, 2024
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Description
- Leads the development of organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration.
- Develops organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration and build.
- Provides resources to ensure systems integration and build can operate effectively and ensures adoption and adherence to policies and standards.
- Leads the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements.
- Develops organisational capabilities, processes and procedures for automation and continuous integration of build, packaging, testing, security and deployment
- Build and utilising a continuous integration (CI) capability when required employing version control of source code and related artefacts.
- Ensure security and privacy requirements are an essential part of systems integration and build
- Test, validate and sign off of integration to satisfy requirements, architectures and design
- Monitor and control integration activities and recording and reporting on the results of integration
- Keep stakeholders informed and providing feedback into risk management processes
- Develop and test disaster recovery plans and applying incident management processes for major systems integrations.
- Establishes policies, principles and practices for the selection of solution architecture components.
- Manages trade-offs and balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation.
- Communicates proposed decisions to stakeholders.
- Coordinates and manages the target architecture across multiple projects or initiatives.
- Maintains a stable, viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.
- Define the planned operation and maintenance of the solution within a production environment — include changes to services, process, organisation, and operating models as well as technology.
- Ensure that existing and planned solution components are compatible with relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices
- Considers requirements for security, privacy and testing of solutions
- Taking account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices
- Identifying appropriate cloud services
- Develops roadmaps to migrate components to cloud services
- Develops and communicating an implementation roadmap
- Provides guidance and risk-based governance to support solution implementation including managing requests for changes and deviations from specifications.
Requirements
Education:
- Matric / Grade 12
- B.Com / BSc Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience
Experience:
- 10+ years’ experience of managing relationships with internal business customers
- 10+ years’ experience leading teams, internal and 3rd parties in a multivendor approach.
Certifications:
- Current industry certification in architecture (i.e., TOGAF, Zachman, DevOps, CI/CD etc.)
- Proven experience of managing Enterprise Architecture domains (Application, Business, Data, other) for a multinational entity.
- Proven knowledge in one or more Enterprise platforms, e.g. ERP, integrated ITSM, Regulatory, Cloud Development, etc
Skills and Attributes:
- Innovation
- Visioning
- Strategic planning
- Global thinking
- Entrepreneurial thinking
- Teamwork
- Initiative
- Results oriented
- Systems thinking
- Focused
- Problem-solving and good judgment
- Responsibility and accountability
- Cooperation
- Proactive
- Resilience
- Active listening skills
- Presentation skills
- Meeting facilitation
- Organisational awareness
- Influence skills
- Pragmatic
- Empathy
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