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Enterprise Architect at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Alfred & Victoria AssociatesLagos, Nigeria Networking and Tech Support
Full Time
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.

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