Environment:

A leading petrochemical company seeks the expertise of a highly skilled senior architecture specialist (applications) to join its team. The successful incumbent should have an NQF Level seven degree or advanced diploma in computer science, information science, computer engineering, information technology, engineering, commerce or other related fields with eight years application architecture experience.

Duties:

• Provision of application architecture frameworks, principles, patterns, roadmaps and governance:
  • Create and maintain the overall application architecture and related governance by developing and applying architectural frameworks, principles, patterns, policies and governance models to ensure applications are used optimally to automate business processes and functions effectively.
• Evaluation, selection and design of the application related components of projects and other initiatives lead:
  • Oversee application architecture quality by ensuring projects and other initiatives enabled by application products and services follow application architecture and governance frameworks, principles, patterns and best practices to maintain design quality standards, ensure that applications are shared and leveraged optimally and prevent unnecessary time, effort and cost impacts associated with duplication, complexity and inefficient use of applications across the organization.
• Application portfolio building and maintenance:
  • Establish and oversee the application portfolio by identifying, updating, categorizing, reviewing and publishing the current inventory of application products and services for the use of stakeholders and to enable effective reporting and analytics on applications to support decision making and planning.
• Lead the analysis of application requirements and make recommendations:
  • Oversee application requirements gathering and analysis by coaching and guiding solution architecture and system specialists on analysis and design tasks related to specific solutions and making design recommendations to maintain an optimised, cost-efficient and functionally effective application architecture across the organisation.

Requirements:

Minimum qualification, accreditation and experience:

• NQF Level seven degree or advanced diploma in computer science, information science, computer engineering, information technology, engineering, commerce or other related fields Architecture Certification e.g. TOGAF
• Eight years of application architecture experience including design, analysis and implementation of complex solutions with five years in project management or leading design and implementation initiatives

Advantageous qualification, accreditation and experience:

• Honours/Postgraduate Diploma.
• Certification in specific applications e.g. SAP, Microsoft
• Application development and workflow products e.g. SharePoint, Service now, .Net
• Microsoft and/or SAP applications.
• Enterprise Content Management systems e.g. SharePoint and OpenText
• Application development methodologies e.g. Agile, Scrum, waterfall.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

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Posted on 20 Apr 14:32