Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market.
Role Objectives
- 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:
- 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.
Academic Qualifications
- University Degree in the field of Computer Science or "STEM" major (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or related fields.
Knowledge & Experience:
- Minimum of 7 years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations.
- TOGAF or Zachman certified
- 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.
Personal Attributes:
- Proven leadership ability.
- Ability to set and manage priorities judiciously.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Strong tactical skills.
- Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical addressees.
- Exceptionally self-motivated and directed.
- Keen attention to detail.
- Analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
- Exceptional service orientation.
- Ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Method of Application
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