Manager Enterprise Architecture

Job Purpose: Define, develop and govern the technology strategy for business
portfolios in alignment with corporate business and IT. Set references and
directions for technology investments and identify priorities for investment.
Identify new opportunities, business drivers and provide improved IT
responsiveness to business needs thereby increasing speed, agility and faster
turnaround. Improves IT transparency enterprise-wide, pushes silos to think
globally and act locally thereby accelerating a move towards a real time
enterprise. Job Outline: Generic: - Lead the definition and governance of new
corporate and portfolio IT standards and guiding principles by analysing and
understanding the potential impact of those changes on both IT and the
business. - Periodically review the IT estate in the context of such standards
and guidelines. Resolve cross-portfolio technology concerns by establishing
repeatable architecture solutions. - Provide technology leadership and expert
consultancy and coach solution architects and development teams. Execute
servant leadership principles and empower the team by developing them and
setting the right context. - Lead the team by coaching, creating development
plans, setting SMART goals to ensure delivery of service level agreements
(SLA) and objectives. Conduct continuous performance reviews to cultivate a
high performance culture. - Scout the market and track technology advancements
and new business innovations, determine how they relate to the IT strategy,
existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend the
existing assets or create new assets. Specific to Portfolios (Customer,
Operations, Commercials, WMAP, Support Services and dnata) - Take
accountability for continuous improvement of the application and technology
landscape by defining, planning and driving technical enablers, managing
technical debt and ensuring modernised roadmaps and updated architecture
runways. - Acquire knowledge in the business portfolio domains and lead
technology transformations for simplification, rationalization and innovation
by defining target and transition architectures for the portfolio in line with
business and IT objectives. - Be an evangelist of the Well-Architected
Framework and ensure development teams understand and adopt such practices.
Specific to cyber security - Accountable for defining cyber security
architecture and technology strategies, standards, principles, and guidelines
by drawing architectural expertise and experience. - Define and lead the
adoption of guidelines for protecting sensitive information such as customer
data by designs complying with their regulations. - Participate, lead and
deliver security architecture evaluation reports on cloud providers, cloud-
native platforms, data center solutions, and Software as a Service solutions -
Conduct period architecture assessments to identify areas of improvements in
the cyber security landscape collaboratively with other key stakeholders
Specific to Enterprise Data and Analytics - Set the strategic directions for
data and data science technologies and solutions so that information/data
requirements and supporting systems are aligned to corporate strategic goals.
- Lead and guide the team in development of data architecture practices,
including standards, policies, guidelines and procedures. - Ensure that the
data security policies and governance policies are established to maintain
quality and integrity our information resources - Collaborate with various
business units, and provide thought leadership that will help them to define
and understand establish solutions in their respective areas Specific to
Strategy and Innovation - Experience in shaping and delivering transformative
business strategies and leading-edge solutions leveraging emerging and
innovative technologies in large, established enterprises and brands. -
Experience in running technology experiments collaborating with business and
technology partners, developing rapid prototyping to evolve innovations, and
early deployment and measurement of new innovative products and services into
production, yet safeguarding architecture and security characteristics. - Have
the breadth of knowledge, curiosity to learn, and an open mindset to explore
emerging technologies such as Web ‎3.0, blockchain, Robotics, 5G, Mobile
technologies, Hyper Automation, AI, IoT, Extended Reality, Security, Payments,
Sustainability, Quantum computing, etc. - Experience in managing and
delivering for Board Level Executives on the value of Emerging technologies.
In addition, exposure to partner landscape of emerging technologies with
established relationships with partner networks. - Experience in providing
thought leadership in adopting large-scale innovation, in large enterprises,
that benefits business.
Qualifications & Experience: Information Technology. Other : ‎10+ Years Degree
or Honours (‎12+‎3 or equivalent) : Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or
an equivalent IT related discipline. Experience in Information technology,
Enterprise Architecture Knowledge/skills: - Preferably close to ‎10 years of
experience in the development of large scale complex, distributed, scalable
mission critical applications in heterogeneous environments. - Technical
leadership and architecture experience with experience in leading a group of
solution architects, directing strategic investments and influencing delivery
plans - Experience in developing technology strategies and solutions with an
enterprise big picture view and ability to zoom into solution details -
Understanding of application development technologies such as Java, open
source frameworks, cloud, low code platforms etc. - Understanding of non-
functional requirements and other practices such as observability, automation
etc. - Understanding of agile software development frameworks such as Scrum,
Scaled Agile. - Understanding of TOGAF, Zachman or any modern day Enterprise
Architecture frameworks. - Understanding of industry standard software
modelling approaches such as ArchiMate, UML etc. - Understanding of
architecture styles such as Micro services, event driven architecture, cloud
native applications. - Understanding of well architected framework for cloud
deployments. - Ideally certification in at least one of the areas - TOGAF,
IASA, Cloud Architecture, Cyber Security Preferably good understanding and
experience in airline domain. Leadership Role : YES
Salary & Benefits: Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-
free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted
flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an
excellent leave and healthcare package. That's on top of transport benefits,
life insurance and more.