Enterprise Architect at Interswitch Group Full Time

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Permanent
Department: Group Shared Technology

Job Description

• 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.

Requirements

• University Degree in the field of Computer Science or “STEM” major (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or related field
• Minimum of 8 years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations
• 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.

Application Closing Date
18th November, 2021.