• Application Deadline:
• Position: Enterprise Architect


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 7 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

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.