Enterprise Architects at Global InfoSwift Limited

Global InfoSwift Technologies Limited (GIS) - We have extensive experience in the Financial Services Sector of the Nigerian market. Within this market, our Financial services sector work with a wide range of clients to address some of the most challenging information problems. Problems that affect the delivery of critical services. Specifically we provide technical and management consultancy to enable clients to operate effectively. Deliver specialised solutions, characterised by high performance and innovation, using a combination of consultancy, software and hardware.

Global InfoSwift Technologies Limited (GIS) is recruiting on behalf of its client, in the Financial Services Sector business area, to fill the position of:

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• The Enterprise Architect role co-ordinates the development of architectural frameworks and leads the population of these frameworks with coherent and consistent architectural views.
• The individual is responsible for establishing the scope of the enterprise in question, setting down architectural principles and vision and for ensuring the rigour and integrity of the enterprise architecture, together with associated deliverables.
• The Enterprise Architect should be familiar with and experienced in the application of one or more architecture frameworks and any associated architecture development methods, including at least TOGAF.
• The Enterprise Architect will be responsible for ensuring that the populated architecture framework is appropriate in the context of the client’s business environment.
• The Enterprise Architect must be comfortable with leading a team of architects within business, application/systems, data/information and technical architecture disciplines and must be able to explain clearly the benefits of an architectural approach.
• He/she must be experienced in presenting and explaining the architectural views to clients at all levels from technical/IT staff to Main Board/Director.
• The Enterprise Architect should also be able to develop portfolios and programmes of work to deliver the enterprise architecture.
• The Enterprise Architect will typically have experience in at least one of the 4 contributing architecture disciplines: business analysis, applications/systems engineering, data/information architectures and technical architectures.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor's or equivalent Degree in Business, Information Systems or related disciplines, and extensive related project experience.
• Must be TOGAF Certified
• M.B.A. or other advanced degree a plus.
• Minimum five years in business, plus experience working in process design, consulting or architecture.
• Management experience in one or more of the following areas: Strategic planning, leadership, relationship management, change management, program management efforts involving the coordination of resources and goals across multiple, related projects, leading multidisciplinary, high-performance work teams and developing and monitoring the delivery of efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.

Skills
The individual would be expected to cover a significant subset of the following capabilities and skills:

• Full life cycle experience, responsible for the development of a complete set of architectural views for an enterprise in accordance with TOGAF architecture framework; any of the Zachman, DoDAF, MODAF or FEAF framework will be an added advantage.
• Strong business analysis skills and experience, including development of business vision and strategies, functional decomposition, requirements capture, process modelling.
• Strong knowledge of design and architectural patterns.
• Experience of at least one of the commonly used methods, notations and tools (e.g. MEGA Architecture, BPMN Notation etc).
• Experience of ‘system of systems’ architecture development, partitioning of functionality among applications and components and application interfaces/interoperability concerns.
• Experience of software development methodologies and structured approaches to system development.
• Awareness of systems management and operational support tools.

Benefits
An annual salary of between 9,600,000 - 12,000,000 Nigerian Naira. A capped Annual Expense Allowance for the purchase of personal and family travel tickets; you will receive an additional sum towards your housing annually; and an official car. A medical scheme will be put in place to provide a local medical cover appropriate to your status for you, your spouse and a maximum of two (2) children (not above the ages of 21).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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