Access Bank Plc Recruitment for Enterprise Architect

Location: Nigeria
Last date: Not Specified
Email: Online Application (links below)

Access Bank Plc is a financial institution with presence in 9 countries in Africa and the United Kingdom and in all major cities in Nigeria. Also referred to as the Africa's Bank of Best Practice, Access Bank operates on a platform of strong ethics, governance and professionalism.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: Nigeria

Job Roles

• Leads the program to develop Enterprise Architecture and align the business with IT.
• Maintain and govern the enterprise architecture (EA) across the organization.
• Define the EA process and architecture review process,
• Lead the integration of those processes with related business and IT processes.

Functions and Responsibilities

• Creation or evolution of the enterprise architecture function/program.
• Understand, advocate and support the enterprise's IT strategies.
• Identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive useful business context.
• Analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise architecture.
• Promote the EA process, outcomes and results to the organization, including the enterprise's IT and business leaders.
• Creation of governing principles to guide EA decision making.
• Development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and IT strategies.
• Undertake EA implementation and ongoing refinement activities.
• Consult with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture to accommodate project needs.
• Consult with infrastructure development project teams to fit infrastructure to architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate infrastructure needs.
• Identify organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
• Documentation of all architecture design and analysis work.

Job Requirements
Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related numerate Science or Engineering discipline.

Experience:

• 2 or more years of experience in any of the following IT disciplines; application development, systems integration & middleware, database management, and server administration.

Certification(s):

• IT certifications and other professional qualifications will be an added advantage

Skills / Competence:

• Familiarity with basic information management practices.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Excellent analytical and technical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture.
• Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes.
• Basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting.
• Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.
• Ability to translate business needs into EA requirements.
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of EA

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online