Reports to:Senior Manager:IT Architecture
Employer: South African Post Office
Job Description
Develop business cases for appropriate architecture. Develop agreed enterprise architectural principles and define layers. Manage the interface between Architecture and other IT departments. Benchmark best practices. Audit, monitor and ensure compliance with specific architecture. Identify and mitigate architectural variances.
Key Responsibilities
•Develop business case for the appropriate architectures
•Define Enterprise Architecture Layers
•Manage the interface between Architecture and other IT Departments in respect of the specific architecture
•Benchmark and best practice investigation architecture
•Portfolio management & optimization of enterprise assets
•Investigation of architecture specific initiatives
•Auditing and monitoring compliance to architecture standards
•Ensure compliance to the specific architecture
•Identify and mitigate architectural variances
•Ensure the efficient management and control of function/resources in accordance with the stipulations of the PMFA, fraud prevention and risk management principles, legislation, company policies, processes, regulations, etc
Job Requirements
•Degree/ Diploma or equivalent relevant IT qualification
•6-8 years relevant experience and knowledge of ICT technologies
•Knowledge of architecture methodologies, processes and approaches
•Understanding of ICT technology, vendor and product trends
•Knowledge of:-Architecture business case formulation & Interpretation, Architectural
frameworks, processes and governance, IT Governance Principles, Standards and procedures
•High level knowledge of finance and Cost Benefits Analysis
Skills & Attributes:
Architectural skills in one of the specified architectures:
o Business Architecture
o Technology / Systems Architecture
o Information Architecture
o Applications Architecture
o Architectural planning, analysis, design,
modeling
o Architectural governance
• Architectural skills
• Negotiation Skills
•Planning, analysis, design and implementation skills
•Persuasive skills
•Innovative
•Practical Conceptual thinking
•Honesty & Integrity
Deadline Date: 05.02.2014
How to Apply:
Contacts:
- Correspondence will be limited to short-listed candidates only.
- If you do not hear from the South African Post Office or its Agent within 3 months of this advertisement, please accept that your application has been
unsuccessful. - The South African Post Office Limited reserves the right not to fill this position or to re-advertise the positions at any timeThe South African Post Office is committed to the achievement and maintenance of diversity and equity in employment, especially with regard to race, Gender and disability
Human Capital Management: Corporate
PO Box 2042
CORPORATE POST OFFICE, 0074
Or
Email:
Careers@postoffice.co.za
Fax Number: 086 6 664 486
Position Number: 60028115
