Systems and Cloud Architect Lead

Enterprise and business architecture – Level 6

• 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

• 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.
  

Responsibilities & Accountabilities (contd.)

Emerging technology monitoring – Level 5

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

Demand management – Level 5

• 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 management with 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.