Enterprise Architect II

**Job Classification**

Requisition ID: 143090

Closing date: 26 January 2026

**Job Family**

Information Technology

**Career Stream**

IT Architecture

**Leadership Pipeline**

Manage: Others

Job Purpose

To facilitate the development of future-state architecture and ensures its effective adoption. Provide and identify operational opportunities, overall direction, guidance and definition of the enterprise architecture that effectively support business strategies. Advocating and supporting the enterprise's IT strategy, identifying and analysing enterprise business drivers, analysing the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, recommends solutions for improvement and develop strategies for aligning IT to the business. Act as a trusted technology advisor to business in realising the business strategy for the relevant discipline. Responsible for the end-to-end view across both Capabilities and/or Solution Architecture disciplines, ensuring alignment across relevant domains. Works as an advocate and liaises with Information Services and Technology operational teams and the Enterprise Architects researching technology trends.

**Job Responsibilities**

• Define and maintain future-state enterprise architecture and transformation roadmaps.
• Establisharchitecture principles, technology standards, and governance frameworks.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business and IT leaders on emerging technologies.
• Driveinnovation ideation, proof-of-concept, and pilot projects.
• Measure and managetechnical debt across the organization.
• Facilitate innovation workshops and promote digital maturity.
• Facilitate priority setting, project selection and integration in the organisation by providing guiding principles and architecture
• Ensure alignment with emerging Technologies and possible recommendation of new technologies.
• Deliver business tasks according to the level of expertise to meet financial objectives.
• Address client needs through leading phases of projects or consult to projects and business leaders across a variety of Architecture disciplines
• Build professional relationships lead and influence in all disciplines of architecture
• Build and maintain relationships within the enterprise and within the larger field of speciality.
• Lead the achievement of architecture solutions where an understanding of all disciplines is required.
• Monitor and evaluates competitive offerings that could change the domain landscape, affects multiple domains (portfolio of solutions domains) or the broader organisation
• Integrate the change impact into business recommendations and strategic planning.
• Adjust recommendations by considering the impact of new initiatives on market perception
• Enable enterprise wide solutions to integrate well with existing practices by developing mitigating actions and change strategies
• Consider not only the optimising of the system, but also the long term viability of the system.
• Optimising the architectural strategy across various families or portfolios of application or products in the enterprise by taking an enterprise viewpoint
• Effect multiple domains or create new domains, or changes the landscape through developing of position papers
• Integrate the key principals and issues to build enterprise wide solutions
• Apply disciplines in a variety of projects in relevant solution domains and across multiple business areas.
• Combine multiple perspectives from experience in various roles on multiple developments and architecting projects.
• Considers enterprise wide relevant best practice within the larger financial industry and global economy
• Ensure alignment to newest trends by monitors emerging trends and evaluates their potential impact on the broader organisation.
• Deliver on work tasks for which the impact of the work can only be determined 3-5 years later.
• Move the system towards the desired future state through consideration of future scenarios, the macro environment and an understanding of present operational requirements to
• Identify underlying patterns in vague, ambiguous information.
• Make judgements based on hypotheses, future scenario's or educated guesses.
• Provide advise to the business across all disciplines.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or Computer Science (Honors/Master’s preferred).

**Essential Certifications**

• TOGAF Certification, Information Technology Architect Certification (ITAC) (Open Group)

Minimum Experience Level And Skills

• 10\+ years in systems design and development.
• 5\+ years in enterprise architecture and strategic IT planning
• Experience in Digital Channels, Onboarding and Servicing will be advantageous
• Strong analytical and creative thinking.
• Excellent modelling skills across ICT domains.
• Ability to influence and communicate at executive level.
• Knowledge of EA frameworks (TOGAF, Gartner, Zachman).

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**

• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Research methodology
• Decision-making process
• Business writing skills
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
• Unified Modelling Language (UML)
• Rational design toolset application
• IT Architecture

**Behavioural Competencies**

• Building Partnerships
• Communication
• Decision Making
• Influencing
• Innovation
• Driving for Results

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at \+27 860 555 566