Integration Services 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 to work with stakeholders to design planning, coordination, development and supervision of all activities related to the integration of software programs, applications and third-party solutions to meet the business requirements of the Road Accident Fund.

Key Performance Areas

Integration Architecture

• Facilitate establishment of Architecture Standards and Policy.
• Develop EA standards, data architecture standards, EA governance frameworks, and system integration standards.
• Develop and maintain the technology stack to include commercial or open source integration platforms.
• Provide expert advice to project teams on use of integration technology, data architecture and modeling, system architecture including integration best practices
• Provide oversight in standards adherence through reviews of project work including detailed technical specifications and application code.
• Works with EA peers (e.g., enterprise, business, information, solutions and security architects) to analyse enterprise business context (business strategy and trends), as well as change requirements in other enterprise architecture viewpoints (such as business, information and solution) to derive the future state technology architecture. This includes defining the requirements, principles and models that guide technology decisions for the enterprise.
• Work with project teams in definition of requirements for integration strategies of their projects into the Enterprise Architecture.
• Oversee development and support of batch and back-end processes related to the application portfolio.
• Partner with leaders of other disciplines to ensure proposed solutions align with information, technology, infrastructure, business and security architectures.
• Develop conceptual integration & security architecture.
• Perform advisory service to business on solution building blocks.

Manage Integration Architecture Portfolio

• Develop an application integration portfolio.
• Periodically update the application integration portfolio to keep abreast of the changing application landscape.

Manage Integration Architecture

• Develop conceptual integration & security architecture.
• Perform advisory service to business on solution building blocks.

Identify Risks Associated with Solution Architecture

• Identifies existing business risks related to the implementation of software design.
• Draw up risk mitigation plan.

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.

Reporting

• Prepare and submit regulation reports as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.
• Develop functional reporting systems, for management, projects or performance reporting.

Stakeholder Management

• Communicate with all levels of stakeholder contact.
• Represent the Fund in relevant external activities and events.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Information Technology/ BSC Computer Science related qualification.
• TOGAF certification will be advantageous.
• Integration/ Service Oriented Architecture Certification will be advantageous.
• Relevant 5 - 7 years of relevant work experience in applications intergration/ management.
• Expertise in solution design and development, vendor management, enterprise application support, in addition to strong business understanding and project management.
• Experience in managing relationships with vendors/ consultants, IT teams and internal stakeholders.

• Experience working with API’s from commercial software applications.
• Experience in a management or supervisory role on an integration development team ould be an added advantage.

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.
• Extensive integration expertise on all domains; on-prem, cloud and/or hybrid environment.
• Knowledge of relevant Information Technology governance standards and legislative framework (such as COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF, SDLC, SOA).
• Knowledge of common system integration methods and technologies including Web services, ALE/IDocs/RFC, SOAP, JSON, XML Schema Definition (XSD), Extensible Markup Language (XML), SFTP, Mail, EDI, Business process automation and orchestration tools and software.
• Strong technical expertise and proven solution design skills with breadth of knowledge across architecture disciplines.
• Demonstrated Business Analysis/Application Intergration experience.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture, systems architecture, integration architecture and data architecture standards, frameworks, and practices.
• Knowledge of common system integration methods and technologies including Web services, SOAP, JSON, XML Schema Definition (XSD), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Business process automation and orchestration tools and software.
• Integration design, technical specifications and code interfaces and frameworks on SAP middleware technologies (SAP Integration Suite, SAP PO/PI).
• Knowledge of IBM Sterling Connect Direct.
• A passion for all things tech and has a drive to experiment with new technologies to see where they can benefit the business.

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.