Head, Enterprise Architect

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To develop, design and maintain the solution architectures for specific business functional/technical areas. To participate in the definition of the higher-level functional and non-functional requirements, analyse technical trade-offs, determine the major components and subsystems, and define the interfaces and collaborations between them, safeguarding the strategic alignment of technology architecture with the agreed business outcomes

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
Field of Study: Information Technology
Experience Required
Enterprise Technology & Solutions Architecture
Technology
5-7 years
Experience working with cross-functional teams fostering collaboration and team 
work. Experience in engaging with a broad spectrum of stakeholders including 
senior executives. Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a 
member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development 
environment. A sound knowledge of major open standards in the IT field.
5-7 years
In-depth experience in full lifecycle design and development. Experience of app 
development & data base methodologies, programming languages, data base 
concepts, data storage, retrieval techniques & warehousing patterns, high 
performance computing, middleware paradigms & usage to enable event based & 
application architectures, architecture quality control, tools, data and process 
modelling to provide application integration and application building expertise and 
advice on design standards.
8-10 years
Significant experience as architect in the complete information system life cyclewith specific experience in Architecture/Solution design delivery in large domestic or global institutions. Ability to deal with all levels of the business and technology organisations. Experience in defining conceptual, logical and physical architectures and data models- Strong analytical and complex problem solving skills- Familiar with TOGAF, Zachman, Bredemeyer and other EA frameworks- Experience in banking

Additional Information

Behavioral Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Checking Details
• Developing Expertise
• Documenting Facts
• Embracing Change
• Examining Information
• Interpreting Data
• Managing Tasks
• Producing Output
• Taking Action
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Emerging Technology Monitoring
• Information Technology Architecture
• Internal & External IT Environment
• IT Applications
• IT Knowledge
• Solutions Assessment
• Stakeholder Management (IT)