Corporate Systems Architect Work in Johannesburg 2024

RecruitU Recruitment Services – Corporate Systems Architect vacancy in Johannesburg 2024
Employment Positions for Corporate Systems Architect in South Africa 2024
Career openings at RecruitU Recruitment Services in South Africa 2024
 

Remuneration:	negotiable Cost to company
Location:	Johannesburg
Education level:	Degree
Job level:	Management Snr
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#CorpSysArch250816

 

Job description

A corporate client situated in Johannesburg is embarking on an exciting IT transformation journey and will need a Corporate Systems Architect to join the organisation.
Role purpose and objectives:

• Ownership of the Corporate and Financial systems architecture strategy and designs for the Client

The objectives of the role include:

• Define the architecture roadmap for corporate and financial systems
• Manage solution architects and vendors to deliver end-to-end high-level design artefacts
• Manage a very large portfolio of applications from an architecture and design perspective

Key responsibilities:

• Ownership of the corporate systems architecture for the client solutions.
• Define the architecture roadmap for corporate systems
• Ensuring the alignment of enterprise IT architecture with agreed business outcomes and IT strategy, based on relevant IT architecture enterprise principles and frameworks.
• Investigates strategic IT trends (including initiating and executing relevant proof of concepts) and provides feedback regarding the impact and alignment required
• Understand, manage and reduce complexity within IT landscape
• Establishing policies and procedures to develop reusable patterns for technical and operations solutions
• Effectively communicate the architecture principles and plans across the IS and business communities in an accessible fashion
• Provide an independent, unbiased view of the implications of business and technology scenarios within and across enterprise
• Mentor and guide the solution Architects in carrying out application design tasks. Coordinate and delegate tasks as required.
• Manage deliverables of solution architects
• Provide guidance and coaching to Solution Architects and Specialists on changes throughout the design process.
• Conduct continuous improvement analysis on existing application and infrastructure technology and its ability to support the business requirements.
• Identify and evaluate risks and participate in mitigation and control activities.
• Compile inventory of applications and compile system landscapes
• Perform annual asset health assessments
• Develops corporate systems architecture that accurately translates business requirements to technology and ensures the design will meet business requirements throughout the lifecycle of a change;
• Finance systems (AP, AR, FA, GL, CB)
• Treasury
• Fins reporting
• Fins budgeting
• Insurance
• Legal
• Banking
• HR systems
• Property
• Large nr of miscellaneous systems staff use to run the corporate side of the business
• Liaise with IT project managers and IT delivery coordinators to implement a solution that will meet business requirements within time and cost constraints.
• Provide guidance and coaching to developers and specialists on changes throughout the design process.
• Establish traceability between requirements and application solution architecture design.
• Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of application usage best practices.
• Define a change release strategy for corporate systems initiatives.

Essential skills and experience required for this role:

• A significant can do attitude
• Results focus and driven

 

Requirements

Technical know-how:

• Experience in finance and corporate systems design
• Experience with the major vendors in the space: SAP, Oracle, SAGE, Syspro, MS Axapta, Navision
• Can demonstrate strong knowledge in integration methods and patterns
• Can demonstrate strong business process knowledge around implementation best practices
• A strong element of creativity to shape innovative solutions combined with architectural design experience in order to develop a workable solution.
• A demonstrable track record of combining the above to deliver designs resulting in successful solution delivery.
• Has a wide range of experience: Infrastructure, networks, programming, applications, security, integration
• Platform independent mindset
• Experienced in designing ERP solutions for large distributed organisations
• Experience with managing solution designers
• Worked within Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) software architecture, middleware infrastructure products specifically.
• Experienced in addressing information quality issues in originating business processes rather than in downstream integration code.
• Has utilised in their career several difference project methodologies and understands when different approaches are appropriate.
• Understand Agile and what it means to the architects artefacts
• Ability to define and oversee the full corporate systems development lifecycle.
• Ability to lead projects with regard to estimates, planning and deliverables.
• Can cite company or industry specific examples of successes, failures and lessons learned.

Client management:

• Possess excellent communication skills both written and oral
• Excellent facilitation skills and the ability to work effectively with peer and leadership teams.
• Need strong negotiation skills
• Display a strong customer focus background with commercial awareness and strategic thinking capability
• Cultivate relationships with business and technology stakeholders.

Professional qualification requirements:

• TOGAF exposure
• ERP certification

Technical qualification requirements:

• Undergraduate technical degree (e.g., BIng, BSc) or equivalent experience in technology

Experience:

• Previous solution architecture
• Significant finance projects exposure for large scale integrated solutions
• Display a strong understanding and three years’ experience as a finance systems consultant/Architect.

Contact details
Diane Robertson
RecruitU Recruitment Services
083 685 0688
diane@recruitu.co.za