Closing Date 2025/02/19
Reference Number LAN250213-1
Division IT and Operations
Unit Finance Treasury & IT
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Country South Africa
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Town / City Centurion
JOB ADVERT SUMMARY
(Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
MAIN JOB DESCRIPTION
1. The role of IT Architect – Business and Data is responsible for the strategic business transformation within Landbank and overseeing critical deliverables; such as business capability models, business capabilities, and value streams.
2. This role is further responsible for leading the architecture of new organizations or re-architecting aspects of existing business operations and capabilites.
3. The IT Architect - Business and Data is also responsible for setting the data architecture principles, create enterprise models of data that enable the implementation of the intended business architecture, create architecture strategic models showing key data entities, and create an inventory of the data needed to implement the architecture vision.
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
Business Architecture Strategy Development:
1. Collaborate with the Head of Enterprise Architecture (EA) to establish governance, focusing on business architecture.
2. Develop and monitor the Business Architecture Vision, Capability Model, Business Process Modelling, and Value Streams for Landbank.
3. Ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
Business Architecture Blueprint & Roadmap:
1. Collaborate with stakeholders and architects (applications, technology, security) to select reference models and create baseline and target business architecture descriptions.
2. Perform gap analysis and develop a roadmap aligned with Landbank’s strategic objectives.
Business Architecture Governance:
1. Manage activities to develop, maintain, and govern business architecture.
2. Ensure architecture goals are met and assess best practices to improve business frameworks and data quality management.
Data Architecture Strategy Development:
1. Develop and implement the Data Architecture Vision and Principles.
2. Collaborate with other IT divisions to create data management practices and ensure data architecture goals are achieved.
Data Architecture Blueprint & Roadmap:
1. Consult with stakeholders to develop an Enterprise Data Model, data flows, integration patterns, and master data management architecture.
2. Conduct gap analysis and participate in creating a Data Warehouse, Data Mart, or Data Lake roadmap.
Opportunities and Implementation Planning:
1. Identify business and data change opportunities and constraints.
2. Perform gap analysis, refine architecture dependencies, and create implementation and migration plans for business and data transformation.
Stakeholder Engagement & Management:
1. Develop a stakeholder engagement strategy, map stakeholders by influence, and manage expectations.
2. Maximize opportunities, mitigate risks, and improve stakeholder relationships to support architecture goals.
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