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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.

• 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
• Identify the business impact of change and risks associated.
• 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.
• Build models around future scenario planning
• 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 (The next big things)
• 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
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
• Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.

• Bachelor Degree in either Information Systems or Computer Science
• Honours or Masters Degree (or higher) in either Information Systems or Computer Science
• TOGAF Foundation Training
• TOGAF Certification
• Information Technology Architect Certification (ITAC) (Open Group)
• 10+ Years experience in systems design and development
• 10+ Years experience in Architecture

• Cloud-related certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Certified Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect.

• Understanding waterfall and agile methodologies
• Assertiveness and ability to influence and reason with key stakeholders
• Able to work in a team environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Analytical, Logical, Lateral and Creative Thinking
• Able to integrate disparate concepts into a cohesive whole
• Able to reason at various levels of abstraction
• Excellent modelling skills across all ICT models
• Good understanding of all levels of ICT infrastructure
• Systems thinking
• Design thinking and facilitation
• Customer Centricity

• Mature collaborator with high levels of EQ.
• Must be able to negotiate strong opinions and viewpoints

• 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)
• Building Partnerships
• Communication
• Decision Making
• Driving for Results

• Advanced Diploma / B-Degree in IT, IS, Computer Science, or related.
• 8 years experience in ICT Architecture.
• TOGAF 9 Foundation Certification.

• Perform data modelling and information system design.
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Conduct risk assessments for technology investments.
• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards.
• Design enterprise-level solutions aligned with technology competencies.
• Collaborate with business users, IT teams, and vendors.

• Develop and evolve the enterprise architecture blueprint, frameworks and target-state architecture, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives and future-state technology vision.
• Define and maintain architectural principles, domain strategies, and standardized reference models that support scalable, interoperable, and secure technology ecosystems.
• Translate corporate strategy, regulatory mandates, and digital transformation goals into clear architectural initiatives and target-state designs.
• Lead multi-year roadmap development across technology domains including applications, data, integration, infrastructure and security in collaboration with domain architects and delivery teams.
• Continuously assess technology trends and emerging innovations to guide modernization and strategic platform selection.

Governance & Oversight

• Chair Architecture & Design Review Boards (ARBs) to review, guide, and approve solution designs, ensuring consistency with enterprise standards and strategic objectives.

Define governance processes for architectural compliance, exception 

• management, and deviation tracking across business portfolios and technical teams.
• Perform architecture assurance and gap assessments to identify technical risk, misalignment, and opportunities for consolidation or optimization.
• Ensure ongoing enforcement and evolution of architecture policies, design standards, and lifecycle documentation for all enterprise assets.
• Support audit readiness and regulatory compliance by embedding architecture governance in change delivery.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a strategic advisor to Head of Architecture, shaping investment decisions and prioritizing technology initiatives based on architectural insights.
• Work closely with product managers, domain architects, engineers, and business analysts to co-create architectural solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Build alignment across multiple delivery streams and business units to ensure architecture decisions enable reusability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness.

Facilitate cross-functional design workshops, architecture forums, and technical deep-dives to enable 

• shared understanding and decision-making.
• Represent the enterprise architecture function in vendor evaluations, technology partnerships, and RFP/RFI processes.

Architecture Delivery

• Lead the design and evolution of enterprise-scale platforms, including cloud-native systems, Payment Systems, API gateways, service orchestration layers, event-driven architectures, and data lakes.
• Guide the definition of architecture enablers and technical epics within agile planning cycles
• Ensure timely delivery of architecture artifacts and technical blueprints to support sprint-level execution and platform runway readiness.
• Monitor implementation of architectural designs to ensure conformance with standards and provide hands-on support in resolving complex design challenges.

Foster DevSecOps and platform engineering practices by integrating architecture with CI/CD pipelines, security automation, and observability frameworks

Technical Experience:

Essential:

· Proven track record in defining and evolving enterprise-wide architecture strategies, reference models, and technology roadmaps.

· Deep understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or FEAF, and experience applying them in complex organizations.

· Experience driving architecture transformations aligned to digital business models (e.g., omnichannel, platform as a service, composable architectures).

· Demonstrated hands-on experience architecting across multiple domains, including:

o Applications: Monolith to microservices decomposition, modernization, and lifecycle management.

o Data: Master Data Management (MDM), data lakes, streaming pipelines (e.g., Kafka), and analytics platforms.

o Integration: API-led design (REST, GraphQL), event-driven architecture, service mesh, and ESB replacement strategies.

o Infrastructure & Cloud: Hybrid/multi-cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes), IaaS/PaaS adoption models.

· Deep understanding of architectural implications for regulatory compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR, ISO 27001).

· Experience integrating Zero Trust Architecture, identity management (OAuth2, OpenID, SAML), and encryption protocols into enterprise design.

· Familiarity with architecture risk assessments, threat modelling, and secure-by-design principles.

· Experience of various software engineering playbook frameworks (Agile development, Automated testing, Code reviews, Continuous delivery, Continuous integration, Machine learning. Observability, Privacy, Reliability, Security)

· Strong experience in designing high traffic, scalable, reliable, and secure software systems.

· Knowledge of architectural styles and patterns (e.g., Microservices, SOA, MVC, Event-driven architecture).

· Understanding of cloud architecture and services (e.g., serverless computing, containerization, orchestration).

· Experience with data modelling, data warehousing, and data integration.

· Experience in Mobile App Development and Mini-app Frameworks

· Experience with architectural modeling tools (e.g., ArchiMate, Sparx EA)

· Experience leading or supporting large-scale modernization or transformation programs (e.g., core banking revamp, mobile money overhaul, ERP replacement).

Desirable

· Experience of continuous delivery and release automation processes.

· Experience in Blockchain Software Architecture, AI/ML-driven decision systems, edge computing, etc

· Experience in Orchestration Architectural Patterns

· Knowledge and interest in market leading Payments technologies, suppliers and innovations

· Understanding of technical and architectural policies and ability to transform that policy into detailed technical design.

· Experience in Vendor assessment and technical due diligence for major platform selections.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

Educational Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.

· TOGAF, Zachman, or similar EA certification preferred.

· 8 years technical background inclusive of software architecture, software design, software development in a large enterprise environment

· Domain experience in Financial Services and Financial technologies will be an added advantage

· Has demonstrable knowledge and experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies

JOB OVERVIEW

Our Journey

The organisation was founded in 2000 in response to the dramatic decline of protected areas due to poor management and lack of funding. We have a clear business approach to conserving Africa’s wildlife and remaining wild areas. We currently manage 23 national parks and protected areas in 13 countries covering over 20 million hectares.

Our Organisation

African Parks has more than 5700 employees all of whom are conservationists in their own right. We operate in dynamic and ever-changing environments, and our work demands resilience, adaptability, and a deep respect for nature in order to ensure the African Parks Model is functioning optimally. Learn more about our model here

Our Technology

AP has a variety of different systems that are interconnected. The complexity comes not just with the different types of systems but the different operating models and environmental challenges of offline systems (due to intermitted/ poor connectivity from the parks).This results in a hybrid-hosted model of systems, security and accessibility. Furthermore, the master-data management for the system of systems becoming challenging due to the input source of information based on offline sources of data.

Why you should join our team

African Parks is developing an innovative solution that would enable decision making based on data from its ecological, social, financial and management systems brought together in a single environment. The enterprise architect role offers the opportunity to be an instrumental part in making this system a reality and thereby push the frontiers of big data-driven decision making in the conservation space. Your work will end up allowing a park manager to understand, in one environment, not only how land cover and species distribution in a protected area is changing, but also how those trends may relate to the community projects, security effort and deployment capabilities of the site. 

You will be part of a small team trying to build something that hasn't been built before within the conservation space. You will be ensuring that data from different systems, devices and sensors all come together into a single dataset. Given the novelty of the intended end-product and the wide array of systems, sensors and devices you will need to interact with, the role requires somebody who is solution-oriented and has proven ability to familiarize and upskill themselves on how the technology works and how to get this data structured into our data warehousing for big data analytics. While you're in the weeds writing the codes, building the data pipelines and configuring the systems, you are able to keep an eye on how the data needs to be consolidated with that from other sources, and how it may be influencing decision making for better conservation outcomes. 

African Parks manages large conservation areas in some of the most remote places in Africa, and we use many technology tools to assist with this. Whether it is knowing the location of a single lion in South Sudan or knowing where rangers have spent time patrolling for illegal activities. We aim to base decisions on accurate information from all over.  The conservation technology department uses technology to gather information and assist on-the-ground teams to better manage conservation areas. We are responsible for all communications, ranging from the internet at head office to hand held radios to satellite emergency communications. We look at the message from the starting point deep in the parks, all the way through to where it is being used operationally on EarthRanger in a control room or on a report produced for management.

The conservation technology aspect

Looking for purpose, growth, and a bit of adventure? At African Parks is at the heart of transforming conservation across Africa through innovative technology and data-driven solutions. The Enterprise Architect role offers a rare chance to design and implement scalable systems that improve how protected areas are managed, enhance collaboration and optimize operational efficiency. You’ll work with cutting-edge tools and technologies, partnering across teams to align Technology strategy with our bold conservation mission. Beyond shaping the technical landscape, this role supports continuous learning and professional growth in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment. If you’re ready to apply your expertise where it truly matters, African Parks offers a career that combines innovation, impact, and meaningful adventure.

Systems aspect

Looking for purpose, growth, and a bit of adventure? At African Parks is at the heart of transforming conservation across Africa through innovative technology and data-driven solutions. The Enterprise Architect role offers a rare chance to design and implement scalable systems that improve how protected areas are managed, enhance collaboration and optimize operational efficiency. You’ll work with cutting-edge tools and technologies, partnering across teams to align Technology strategy with our bold conservation mission. Beyond shaping the technical landscape, this role supports continuous learning and professional growth in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment. If you’re ready to apply your expertise where it truly matters, African Parks offers a career that combines innovation, impact, and meaningful adventure.

IT Aspect

At African Parks, our IT team supports operations across 24 parks in 13 African countries, including some of the largest and most remote conservation areas on the continent. From savannahs to deep forests, you'll be enabling critical work in places where connectivity is a challenge, but the mission couldn’t be more important.

AP has a variety of different systems that are interconnected. The complexity comes not just with the different types of systems but the different operating models and environmental challenges of offline systems (due to intermitted/ poor connectivity from the parks).

This results in a hybrid-hosted model of systems, security and accessibility. Furthermore, the master-data management for the system of systems becoming challenging due to the input source of information based on offline sources of data.

The EA combines many different skills and experiences to address and solve business, information, and technology-related opportunities and problems. In many activities, the Enterprise Architect is the “glue” that integrates complex business systems together ensures security and accessibility is maintained and ensures the platforms are scalable.

his function provides the “glue” between the technical resources (Tech and vendors) and the business system owners.

The EA usually does not specialize in a particular system functionality but rather looks at how systems will behave together in an interconnected universe of the organizational LAN, WAN, hosted environments.

The technical documentation and EA illustrations allow for logical, physical, virtual and technical diagrams to show how systems will be accommodated for, how information moves between them and how technical hosting of these systems accommodate the operation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Definition, implementation, and execution of the processes for the definition, maintenance, and conformance management of AP’s systems architecture.
li>Ensure all systems and business system owners understand the operating model of the systems and their touch-points between each other.
• Define the system of systems enterprise architecture diagrams that illustrate the integrations, virtual, physical and logical views of the platforms.
• Consult system vendors ensure contractual obligations define constraints and API, integration management.
• Ensure business representatives have data custodians for the management and reconciliation of data between core systems (such as finance and payroll), to ensure data integrity is audited and validated each financial cycle.
• Error management controls and procedures are in place and both technical teams and vendors understand their role in maintaining production systems.
• Disaster recovery procedures and business continuity is in place and tested where systems are reliant on underlying hosting within AP.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Enterprise Architecture diagrams
• API, middleware, store & forward queue definitions and ownership/ role agreement
• Error management: review, identification, resolution and reporting
• Vendor roles and responsibilities
• Technology, Super user and external vendor responsibilities
• Data integrity profiling and review frequency protocols
• Data warehouse platform architecture, the interfaces to downstream and upstream, the normalization/ data relational structure mapping to APIs
• Network management – WAN, WWAN, VPN, LAN standards and SOP
li>Network monitoring solution – dashboards and notifications (incl escalation)

KEY RELATIONSHIP

Key stakeholders

• Technology Vendors and Partners
• Technology Management
• Business System Owners
• Super Users
• Regional Technology Teams
• Park Technology Officers

Indirect stakeholders

• End users
• Park management
• Peripheral IT suppliers and services
• Regional office staff
• Audit and risk team

JOB SPECIFICATION

• Engages business, system vendors, technology teams and defines the architecture models that illustrate the integrations, the security, network and hosting requirements.
• Security constraints, data segregation, data flows and data management for store-and-forward queues for offline management of systems.
• Design network device management and monitoring and systems accessibility management.
• The consultant in business process analysis and design, and service delivery, particularly with respect to the use of master data management to align business rules.
• Consults business systems owners to advise of constraints or rules that are dependent on physical system interoperability to ensure procures and rules are in place to govern data integrity.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS  (Formal artifacts/ documents)

• Enterprise Architecture diagrams
• API, middleware, store & forward queue definitions and ownership/ role agreement
• Error management: review, identification, resolution and reporting
• Vendor roles and responsibilities
• Technology, Super user and external vendor responsibilities
• Data integrity profiling and review frequency protocols
• Data warehouse platform architecture, the interfaces to downstream and upstream, the normalization/ data relational structure mapping to APIs
• Network management – WAN, WWAN, VPN, LAN standards and SOP
li>Network monitoring solution – dashboards and notifications (incl escalation)