Rand Merchant Bank IT / Telecom Jobs in Johannesburg
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Purpose:
- To create and maintain architecture solutions to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs
Responsibilities:
- Macro Environment
- Engage with the macro-environment to look for new opportunities, capabilities and trends that would add value to the required architectural work
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- Suggest changes in executing work processes to better drive value and benefits for the business
- Prepare and share recommendations for process and systems improvements in relevant area of accountability. This includes the requirement to decommission legacy technologies
- Actively participate in team, cross-discipline and vendor-driven collaboration sessions or forums to increase understanding of the working environment (current and planned)
- Business Alignment
- Partner with BT and Business stakeholders to create integrated roadmaps to enable business requirements delivery
- Enterprise architecture design
- Partner with Company and other BU architects to contribute to the creation and review of an architecture capability strategy which meets the strategic requirements of the business.
- Estimate potential changes to business requirements and processes, due to changes/ improvements made in information systems, data management practices, information management procedures, and/ employed software/hardware
Solution design
- Use appropriate tools and methods to contribute to the development of systems architectures in specific business / functional areas to improve the efficiency of system and business performance
- Produce systems and component specifications and translate these into detailed designs for implementation using selected products in support of business or systems changes. This includes the alignment of required documentation
- Provide learning and make suggestions on technical aspects of system development and integration
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Architecture governance
- Monitor adherence to processes which support the prescribed architectural frameworks and ensure delivery teams align to the required standards and methodologies
- Recommend appropriate interventions in own area of ways to improve architectural compliance. This includes BU/FA representation at relevant forums e.g. Architecture Board, Cloud Steerco
Qualifications & Experience:
- Relevant Degree
- Relevant experience in a similar environment
- Data, security, technical and application architecture best practice
- Enterprise architecture frameworks e.g. Togaf
- Corporate Investment Banking domain
- Industry standards and benchmarks
- Problem analysis, alternatives testing and framing and solution design implementation
- Crafting sustainable and dynamic solutions
- Analysis and Attention to Detail
- Big Picture Thinking
- Drive and Results Orientation
- Problem Solving
- Customer Service Orientation
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