Enterprise Architect

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide appropriate cover to all road users within the borders of South Africa; to rehabilitate and compensate persons injured as a result of motor vehicle accidents in a timely and caring manner; and to actively promote safe use of our roads.

Purpose of the Job: Reporting to the Senior Manager: Enterprise Architecture, the successful incumbent is responsible for the translation of management’s business objectives and requirements into a comprehensive, detailed and technical vision that will enable the successful construction, deployment and management of an integrated hardware and software solutions platform. The role will be responsible for establishing IT system specifications and determining an optimal sequence of implementation tasks. The Enterprise Architect serves as a bridge between the primary business stakeholders/ executive team and the Company’s development teams (Data, Application, Infrastructure, Hardware and Integration) and will strives to identify and develop synergies across the development enterprise.

Key Performance Areas

Enterprise Architecture

• Facilitate establishment of Architecture Standards and Policy.
• Institute Enterprise Architecture Governance.
• Lead or provide guidance on Business Solutions Development.
• Ensure that the application or systems, data and technology aspects of the enterprise architecture are driven by the business imperatives of the organisation and that the requirements driving the overall architecture are managed consistently and effectively.
• Understanding and presenting the immediate/tactical and strategic benefits of adopting a consistent architectural approach within the context of the client’s business to help the client justify his investments.
• Ensure architectural recommendations that are in line with the strategic vision for the enterprise and wider best practice.

Documentation

• Determine Enterprise Architecture policy and standards definition and evolution and works with PMO to coordinate project pipeline management.
• Ensure governance by defining and establishing processes by which software and operating models are built.
• Ensure enterprise architecture review are done periodically to evaluate and address technology standards adherence.
• Design and present Architecture concepts to various high level committee structures.
• Author Enterprise Architecture documents for specific projects or programs clearly articulating goals, constraints, and rationale for all architecturally significant decisions. Lead scoping and design sessions across cross-functional teams. Lead the process of determining technical infrastructure design. Consult with different groups to analyze and understand and achieve functional requirements, objectives, desired features, and overall user experience. Collaborate on technical reviews of applications to assess the quality of their solution.
• Perform application portfolio rationalization. Analyze, define, and document system architecture and design for data, workflow, security, hardware integration, operating system environment, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks and controls, and outputs. Identify key components and requirements necessary to ensure that architecture of the integrated environment is capable of reaching maximum levels of availability, efficiency, scalability and security.

Policy Review and Implementation

• Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, standards and procedures and processes.
• Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as a champion to help all facets of the development enterprise (hardware, software, integration) to understand and adopt these standards and policies. Collaborate in Enterprise Architecture planning initiatives to arrive at:

• Current state architecture.
• Client state architecture.
• Roadmap.
• Risks & constraints.
• EA policy and standard definition.
• Engage relevant peers from other disciplines or domains during implementation of Solution Architecture/Design.

• Engage relevant peers from other disciplines or domains during implementation of Solution Architecture or Design.
• Evangelize and syndicate high-level Enterprise Architect strategy across the enterprise and to the Company’s key stakeholders.
• Provide direction and management to ensure that enhancements and modifications to the system adhere to all System and Business Development Methodology and Quality of Service Standards in order to deliver a quality enhancement that meets business requirements.

Reporting 

• Prepare and submit regulation reports as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.
• Develop reports/ policies/ procedures and guide the process through the alignment of the documents to the overall RAF’s Strategy.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Information Technology/ BSC Computer Science related qualification.
• TOGAF certification.
• ITIL certified will be an added advantage.
• Certification in Business Process will be an added advantage.
• Certification in Systems and Business Architecture will be an added advantage.
• Professional Project Management certificate will be an added advantage.
• Relevant 5 - 7 years’ experience in an ICT Enterprise/ Solution Architect environment.

Technical and behavioral competencies required.

• Communication.
• Network and alliances.
• Planning, organising and coordinating.
• Ethics and values.
• Change Management.
• Risk management.
• Stakeholder development and relations.
• Reporting.
• Knowledge of relevant Information Technology governance standards and legislative framework (such as COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF, SDLC, ASAP, SOA).
• Strong technical expertise and proven solution design skills with breadth of knowledge across architecture disciplines.
• Demonstrated Business Analysis/Data Mining experience.

NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.