Overview
Our client, a non-profit conservation organization dedicated to the sustainable management of protected areas in partnership with governments and local communities, is currently seeking a Technology Enterprise Architect. This role is designed for an individual with a broad range of expertise to address complex business, information, and technology challenges. The Enterprise Architect will play a critical role in ensuring seamless integration of business systems, maintaining robust security, and ensuring that platforms remain scalable to meet the organization's needs. Acting as a liaison between technical teams (including vendors) and business stakeholders, the Enterprise Architect will ensure alignment and smooth communication across all technological and operational initiatives.
Duties
- Definition, implementation, and execution of the processes for the definition, maintenance, and conformance management of APs systems architecture.
- Ensure all systems and business system owners understand the operating model of the systems and their touch-points between each other.
- Define the system of systems enterprise architecture diagrams that illustrate the integrations, virtual, physical and logical views of the platforms.
- Consult system vendors to ensure contractual obligations define constraints and API, integration management.
- Ensure business representatives have data custodians for the management and reconciliation of data between core systems (such as finance and payroll), to ensure data integrity is audited and validated each financial cycle.
- Error management controls and procedures are in place and both technical teams and vendors understand their role in maintaining production systems.
- Disaster recovery procedures and business continuity are in place and tested where systems are reliant on underlying hosting within AP.
Key stakeholders
Technology Vendors and PartnersTechnology ManagementBusiness System OwnersSuper UsersRegional Technology TeamsPark Technology OfficersIndirect stakeholders
End usersPark managementPeripheral IT suppliers and servicesRegional office staffAudit and risk teamREQUIREMENTS
Key Performance Areas
Formal artifacts / documents)
Enterprise Architecture diagramsAPI, middleware, store & forward queue definitions and ownership / role agreementError management : review, identification, resolution and reportingVendor roles and responsibilitiesTechnology, Super user and external vendor responsibilitiesData integrity profiling and review frequency protocolsData warehouse platform architecture, the interfaces to downstream and upstream, the normalization / data relational structure mapping to APIsNetwork management WAN, WWAN, VPN, LAN standards and SOPNetwork monitoring solution dashboards and notifications (incl escalation)#J-18808-Ljbffr