Mid-Level Enterprise Architect

• Provide strategic direction for the WCG data landscape.
  
• Develop a data management strategy.
  
• Define the data shared across the WCG and the relationships between those data elements.
  
• Define how the data will be stored, consumed, integrated and managed by different data entities and IT systems, as well as any applications using or processing data.
  
• Work closely with the Application Enterprise Architect, and the Business Enterprise Architect in the achieving data consolidation.
  
• Drive the data standards within the organisation from all perspectives including new offsite data elements.
  
• Ensure complete data solution design to achieve business driven value.
  
• Design process for reuse of data elements components, their use within projects,
  
• Design process for the disposal, archiving and retention of data components and elements and their associated metadata.
  
• Design and evaluate solutions on how to improve, and sustain data quality, database performance, data accuracy, data security for both digital andnon digital data sets.
  
• Ensure data design complies with the relevant government data security acts and polices (e.g., Minimum Interoperability Security Standard and Protection of Personal Information, etc.).
  
• Design solution together with the other domain enterprise architects to gain maximum benefit for technology and processes.
  
• Design, develop, define, and maintain the data architecture standards, data interoperability standards, operational data marts.
  
• Design and evaluate solutions that use a combination of business intelligence, analytics, traditional data warehouse and big data services. Internal and external data sources.
  
• Design processes and producers for data governance.
  
• Manage and maintain the data artefacts in the enterprise architecture repository.
  
• Recommend appropriate course of action to developers and management on data implementation issues.
  
• Define technical standards and methods for performance, and quality.
  
• Ensure that the appropriate strategies and policies are in place and provide the necessary expertise to the Policy and Strategy Unit where strategies and policiesare deemed missing.
  
• Ensure that the strategies and policies are implemented and adhered to.
  
• Contribute, promote, and ensure adherence to ICT governance frameworks,processes and best practice.
  
• Analyse and ensure alignment to National ICT governance frameworks and standards.
  
• Serve as a group member on the internal enterprise architecture governance boards.
  

Requirements

• Degree (or equivalent 3 year+ Tertiary qualification) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent;
  
• Minimum of3 yearsexperience as anEnterprise Architector equivalent role;
  
• Minimum of5 yearsexperience as aSolutions Architector equivalent role;
  
• Experience working in large organisations;
  
• Experience with Oracle and / or Microsoft solutions and custom development;
  
• Experience with cloud solutions, cloud services and cloud development;
  
• Architecture modelling skills;
  
• Have excellent communication (verbal and written) skills;
  
• Presentation and facilitation skills;
  
• Sound organizing and planning skills; and
  
• Consulting experience in large enterprises.