General Manager: Enterprise Architecture 18 views

Purpose:

A healthcare administration company is seeking a General Manager: Enterprise Architecture who will be responsible for envisioning, communicating, and evolving the organisation’s enterprise architecture; address key enterprise aspects – including organisational structure, business processes and strategies, value streams, data, and information, and supporting technologies; ensure alignment between the architecture strategy and overall enterprise vision

Key Job Outputs:

• Defining and maintaining architectural standards: establish and enforce architecture principles, standards, and guidelines that align with the organisation’s overall strategy
• Ensure consistency in architectural approaches across different projects and solutions

Developing and Communicating the Enterprise Architecture (EA) Roadmap

• Create and maintain an enterprise architecture roadmap that outlines the strategic direction for IT systems and infrastructure
• Communicate the roadmap and its implications to stakeholders, including executive leadership and technical teams

Leading Solution Architecture Design

• Oversee the design and implementation of complex IT solutions, ensuring they meet business requirements and align with the enterprise architecture
• Provide guidance and support to solution architects and development teams throughout the project lifecycle

Technology evaluation and integration

• Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their potential impact on the organization’s architecture
• Lead efforts to integrate new technologies into the existing architecture in a scalable and secure manner

Ensuring scalability, security, and performance

• Develop strategies to ensure that solutions are scalable, secure, and perform well under expected workloads
• Conduct regular reviews and assessments of the architecture to identify and mitigate potential risks and issues

Compliance and risk management

• Legal, statutory and regulatory compliance (public accountability) on all requirements is implemented and maintained for function
• Structures and frameworks for risk controls and governance within the function are implemented
• Ensure function is a key contributor in terms of social awareness and corporate citizenship

Divisional leadership

• Accountability for the function’s performance, within the agreed strategic framework
• Develop and retain skilled, engaged employees
• Promote transformation

Financial management

• Accountability for functional budget and overall financial management

Operating model

• Develop business plans to implement the defined integrated functional plans with peer divisions or functions
• Optimise the function’s core internal processes and internal supply chain and resolve functional operating conflicts
• Ensure IT systems are developed and maintained in accordance to user requirement specifications in line with Development Life Cycle standards
• Ensure technology is accessible and equipped with current hardware and software
• Monitor and maintain technology to ensure maximum access

Stakeholder management

• Ensure appropriate, active and informative relationships with relevant stakeholders are in place
• Drive delivery of customer expectations within organisational quality and quantity standards
• Manage relationships and Service Level agreements with internal and external stakeholders

Strategy implementation

• Remain up to date with macro and micro-economic conditions, legislation, competition, market sentiment and the industry in general, to anticipate and plan for circumstances that may influence the development and implementation of the functional strategic plan
• Provide input into and develop the functional strategic plan
• Ensure strategy is implemented in a manner that supports operational and market imperatives
• Communicate strategic context and strategic implementation plans to ensure operational best practice and continuous improvement

Core Competencies:

• Communication skills
• Computer technology skills
• Task management
• Executive business writing skills
• Tact and diplomacy
• Quality driven
• Project management skills
• Innovates and takes risks
• Technical and professional knowledge
• Knowledge and ability to support the enterprise computing infrastructure
• Financial acumen

Qualifications:

• BSC in Computer Science, MBA, TOGAF Certification would be preferred

Experience:

• 12 years managing a variety of large IT projects with clear track record of increasing responsibilities, including 5 years at a senior management level

Salary:   Market related

Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, kindly consider your application as unsuccessful.

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