JOB TITLE: Enterprise Architect
JOB LOCATION: Lagos
JOB DETAILS
- The Enterprise Architect sets the direction and establishes the approach of an organization’s operations, improves the IT infrastructure, and optimizes their business operations.
- The Enterprise Architect works to align and integrate the organization’s strategy and programs with associated technology components.
Responsibilities
Strategy & Planning:
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- Evaluating internal functions, business development strategies, and IT processes and suggesting improvements
- Creating business architecture models to reflect the organization’s strategies and goals and creating and implementing business visions and goals
- Suggesting ideas to reduce costs in IT and business leadership
- Providing business architecture and systems processing guidance
- Ensuring the efficiency, security, and support of the organization’s goals
- Creating methods for compliance architecture, such as data storage, metadata management, and change control
- Determining and implementing build versus buy strategies, mentor personnel, and views of the overall business strategy
- Supports all architectural disciplines and champions’ architectural initiatives
- Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as support of all architectural disciplines under their direction
- Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains
- Aligns architecture strategy with business goals
- Defines, explains, and advocates technology strategy
- Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures
- Designs and implements short- and long-term strategic plans to ensure Interswitch’s infrastructure capacity meets existing and future requirements with regards to employee usage and application hosting
Operational Management:
- Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solutions
- Leads teams in developing technology plans
- Provides strategic consultation to business and IT leaders
- Lead adoption of the enterprise architecture framework adoption
- Works with business leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy
- Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture
- Develops a communication plan for architecture at the enterprise level
- Directs the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends
- Ensures recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment
- Approves the tools and components used within the enterprise
- Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements
- Drive architectural changes through incident management by proposing relevant changes while collaborating with the respective teams for deployment
- Leads the change manager team towards continuous improvement of the change management process and ensuring the deployed changes are in line with business needs
- Developing standards and frameworks towards aligning with business
- Provide artifacts (information assets, application, and IT services) to be stored within EA for reuse
- Review the enterprise alongside other architects to streamline processes and reuse resources
Requirements
- University Degree in the field of Computer Science or “STEM” major (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or related field
- Minimum of 8 years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations
- Experience in working with multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders
- Requires exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
- Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture, business re-engineering principles and processes, and basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting
- Experience with cloud and container technology.
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Deadline: April 29, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Building Design / Architecture |