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• Align business architecture delivery method to the Technical Architecture, Customer Experience Management, Business Analysis and other related methodologies
• Develop, maintain and mature the business capability model.
• Architecture Principles & Guardrail review and alignment
• Value Stream mapping across different clusters (Home Loans, Digital Channels, Juristic Credit)
• Conduct Impact assessments across business areas and initiatives. This includes capability enhancements, duplications, legal implications, compliance issues, etc.
• Guide and sometimes develop the client journeys across clusters and identify opportunities for improvement including resolving pain points
• Lead/ facilitate the adoption of the requirement-to-code target state utilising industry standards such as BIAN, ISO20022 and Microservices architecture standards (collaborative effort across the architecture teams).
• Product Lifecycle Management review across the group including the development of a Product/ Service Map, deduplication across the different sources and alignment with target state
• Improve decision-making processes by providing senior leadership with detailed analyses of architectural options and their impacts on the organization.
• Align and maintain departmental goals with overall corporate objectives through the creation of a comprehensive business capability map.
• Promote standardization across departments by developing reusable architectural components that could be easily integrated into various business processes.
• Evaluate emerging trends in technology and industry best practices to inform future decisions on IT investments and enterprise-wide strategies.

Enterprise Architect at a Central Bank:

• Development of the target data architecture for the envisaged Settlement platform within the central bank. This also included continuous involvement in other domains where I provided inputs and assistance/ guidance towards processes (Target Operating Model), logical architectures across Application, Security and Technology architecture, and modelling in the repository.
• Develop the conceptual and logical architectures across the organisation:
• Development of the data architecture framework and reference models
• Development of a conceptual and logical data model which is aligned to ISO20022
• Logical architectures across multiple DAMA subject areas (e.g. metadata management);
• Identification of Critical Data Elements (CDE’s)
• Analyse and develop the Master and Reference data management solutions architecture
• Data warehousing solution architecture
• Information Reporting, BI and Analytics architectures
• Prioritisation and transition architecture development

EA at National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC):

Analyse the current Business Architecture:

• Review organisational and ICT strategic plans and obtain a clear view of where the organisation intends to go
• Understand the products and services (current and planned)
• Understand stakeholders and required interactions
• Develop artefacts and views to capture understanding: Business Performance Models, Business Service Models, Enterprise Process Model, Stakeholder Map, Capability Model

Develop Target Business Architecture

• Workshop Value streams with each of the Divisional Executives, General Managers and Teams
• Obtain approval for the high level value streams developed
• Model Target processes to the Value stream capabilities identified
• Obtain validation with relevant units
• Provide the process stream and Business Architect with outputs in order for them to proceed with other deliverables (i.e. Target Business Capability Maps, Target process maps, etc)

Analyse current Data Architecture:

• Review business and ICT strategy together with the established Business Architecture
• Understand the data requirements
• Review the Data Management frameworks and Capabilities in place
• Review data artefacts and models in place
• Capture current state architecture: Data Function/ Usage Model, Data Implementation Model, Data Standards

Develop Target Data Architecture

• Develop the Data Reference Model and Conceptual Data Model
• Identify required data technologies required to support strategic intent
• Develop a Data Dictionary
• Recommend Data Management processes for inclusion and Develop a roadmap

Provide Target Infrastructure Recommendations

• Review ICT Strategy and gain understanding on intended initiatives and appetite for future adoption of technologies
• Review the newly agreement with a 3rd Party hosting partner
• Provide assessment and recommendations on improving current environment in order to ensure that it enables agility and flexibility (with reasonable costs) based on future plans understood from Strategic documents and engagements with relevant Executives.

• Enterprise/ Solutions Architect responsible for:
• Architecture Vision and IT operating model alignment
• Business, Application, Data and Infrastructure Architectures
• Identity and Access Management solution architecture
• FICA solution architecture
• Document Management solution architecture
• Working with the BAs and Developers in delivering the designed solutions using the SAFe framework/ methodology
• PPS Insurance
• 12 months

• As a Technical Architect, the project at SBV required the delivery of the Application Catalogue, updated Capability Architectures and the rationalisation of the Application Portfolio. I was tasked with delivering these with the assistance of the broader IT and Business units.
• Responsibilities:
• Assess current Application and Infrastructure landscapes
• Develop target architecture for Applications
• Perform the application rationalisation assessment and develop a recommendations report on applications to retire, maintain and invest in.
• Develop a Migration Roadmap based on recommendations, planned initiatives and current projects
• SBV (3 months)

Senior Business Analyst/ BA Team Lead at Edcon

Lead a team of business analysts to establish the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) across Group IT. Edcon was in a process of being acquired by a company in the UK.

• Liaising with Finance Manager at Edcon to collect IT costs across all Edcon’s divisions
• Developing a model to analyse fixed and variable IT costs for People, Hardware, Licensing, development/ maintenance, networking and the overall management. This was developed per application across different business divisions (Edgars, Discount, Campus, CNA)
• Manage inputs from team members

Enterprise/ Solutions Architect at SA Mint

I was tasked with designs for the baseline architectures as well as developing the Solution Architecture for the integrating SAP into with the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) at SA Mint.

• Understand the Architecture vision and review business models
• Develop Architecture principles for the Enterprise, Business, Application and Data domains
• Document As-Is Data & Application Architecture
• Develop To-Be Data & Application Architecture
• Recommend the application solutions for the To-Be environment
• Develop the solution architecture for the SAP implementation and work with the SAP expert to deliver a SAP HANA PoC.
• Facilitate infrastructure recommendations
• Develop the Migration and Implementation Roadmap over 5 years
• Liaise with client Project Lead to coordinate work, progress and requests throughout the engagement
• Organise and facilitate workshops between SAP specialists and the client stakeholders

Business Solutions Architect at Europcar

The Tempest Group had piloted an ERP rollout with Tempest car hire and was now looking to expand this to Europcar:

• Review operating model and re-develop according to new vision
• Analyse and re-engineer all Core processes to be as close as possible to standard ERP
• Analyse and re-engineer the Management and Supporting processes of the operating model.
• Develop the solution integration and related processes (procedure level)
• Model all processes in ARIS

Enterprise Architect at Department of Justice & Constitutional Development (Public sector)

Assist the team to fast track the delivery of the strategy which was falling behind:

• Assist with the development of the Technology Vision
• Develop the Business Service Model and document benefits for inclusion into the Strategy
• Develop the Business Capability Model
• Develop the Application Landscape Model
• Develop Infrastructure Landscape Model

Senior Business Analyst/ Architect at KansaiPlascon

• Collaborate with the SAP FI/CO to develop nad implement Finance processes that would be in line with the SAP best practices.
• Ensure that Kansai (Japan) business requirements/ rules are considered, while keeping the required functionalities as close as possible to the standard SAP modules. These were audited in accordance by Deloitte.
• Conduct workshops with the Finance team in South Africa to understand and model the target processes for a newly acquired Plascon.
• The workshops included setting up the Chart of Accounts, for example, where reporting requirements and hierarchies were detailed and verified against SAP’s capabilities.

• As a Business Architect consulting at SASSA: I worked with other Knotion consultants to deliver an end-to-end SOA project. Deliverables include customized Reference Models, Architecture Landscapes (Business Capability Model, Business Services Model with process mappings), Risk & Governance Model in conjunction with the Chief Risk Officer, Security Architecture, process maps, providing inputs into IT Strategy document, etc.
• As an EA Trainer at SITA KZN (Public Sector): Install, configure and customise metamodel into the Essential Architecture Manager tool and train the users on the different metamodel elements across different domains.
• As a Senior Business Analyst/Architect at Standard Bank Group: Assess the existing architecture in the current PBB South Africa environment as means to investigate the work effort required in the development of the PBB Africa architecture.
• As a Solutions Architect in Nedbank: Development of the card solution architecture design; assess and model the current and future application and infrastructure architectures; develop the EA delivery process into Eclipse Process Framework tool.
• As an EA consultant/ Business Analyst at SITA - SAPS: Train users on EA and GWEA, customise the framework and build into a portal.
• As a Business Analyst at BP: Perform business process analysis and design/ re-engineering; Document the Management of Change (MoC) activities and outline plan to rollout while ensuring compliance with the SHE standards; Document Business Requirements Specification/ Functional Specifications; Recommend changes to the Policies & Procedures

• Process Benchmarking & Improvement
• Analyze As-Is processes
• Match against the relevant benchmarks
• Conduct Gap Analysis
• Develop a findings report
• VALUE ADD: Identified processes not included in the benchmark and in the organisation, developed it and workshopped with the team. This was implemented and used by the HR Shared Service Centre
• Goldfields (Mining)