Role purpose:
The enterprise architect's responsibilities include improving the current IT infrastructure, optimizing business operations, and setting the direction and approach for integrating information applications and programs. The enterprise architect is also responsible for cataloguing, developing, coordinating, communicating, maintaining, and enforcing overall enterprise architecture models, representations, initiatives, capabilities, and components to adequately perform the organization's business and technology activities.
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
- Assist in the definition and governance of the Vodacom TZ architecture, ensuring that it meets business requirements and performance goals, and that the technical direction is consistent with Vodafone strategy.
- Contribute to and understand the IT Architecture Strategy in conjunction with Vodacom Group and VF Global vision
- Lead design reviews to ensure compliance to the target architecture throughout the development life cycle.
- Work with product vendors and system integrators and Vodacom TZ cross functional teams in achieving the above.
- Engage with a wide range of stakeholders including project teams, IT specialist architects and the Vodafone business, service operations, technology partners and Vodafone Group Architecture/Technology.
- Supports with providing strategic input and planning for large infrastructure initiatives/projects across the product’s lifecycle