System Cloud Architect Lead

• Develops enterprise-wide architecture and processes to embed the strategic application of change in the management of the organisation.
• Leads the creation and review of a systems capability strategy that meets the strategic requirements of the business. Ensures the buy-in of all key stakeholders.
• Captures and prioritises market and environmental trends, business strategies and objectives, and identifies the business benefits of alternative strategies. Develops and presents business cases for approval, funding and prioritisation of high-level initiatives.
• Sets strategies, policies, standards and practices to ensure compliance between business strategies, technology strategies, and enterprise transformation activities.

Solution architecture – Level 5

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Leads the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Leads the preparation of technical plans and ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available. Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.
• Provides technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration. Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions.
• Ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.

Emerging technology monitoring – Level 5

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
• Assesses and documents the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organization.
• Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.

Demand management – Level 5

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Implements demand management analysis and planning activities.
• Provides advice to help stakeholders adopt and adhere to the agreed demand management approach. Manages the process of integrating demand managementwith complementary strategic, operational and change management processes.
• Maintains a register of business requests and routes requests to the right place. Reports on the status of each request.
• Reviews new business proposals and provides advice on demand issues. Works with business representatives to agree and implement short-term and medium-term modifications to demand.