About the position
To develop a security landscape aligned with the company’s strategic projects and initiatives, and to support the successful implementation of physical security infrastructure, solutions and technologies.
JOB DESCRIPTION
- Develop and maintain company’s business architecture landscape, including a security taxonomy and related security reference model.
- Direct the implementation of the business architecture consisting of the capabilities, products and business services in support of the business strategy.
- Develop and implement the business capabilities in terms of key processes and information requirements.
- Develop and implement the company roadmaps to achieve target business/security architectures.
- Develop foundation, reference- and strategic-level architectures for the department, incorporating a strong security framework perspective that includes threat identification, trust and domain frameworks.
- Develop the company’s portfolio architecture and implementation roadmap to guide programme delivery.
- Define the target architecture to enable the Group Security Policy and Group Security Strategy by documenting the current landscape and conducting a gap analysis between the current and future state (as-is baseline and to-be target).
- Govern the implementation of the roadmaps.
- Contribute to formulating, translating, advocating, supporting and executing the business strategy to achieve the organisation’s targeted business outcomes.
- Develop diagnostic and actionable deliverables that help the business guide investment decisions in support of executing the business strategy.
- Ensure alignment between business architecture, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, architecture principles and information and communications technology (ICT) standards to ensure standardisation and reduce risk.
- Make recommendations on key architecture decisions.
- Participate in the company group’s business architecture and enterprise architecture governance structures.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures and other legislative requirements, and ensure that risks within the function are identified, assessed and mitigated.
- Take a proactive approach in identifying integration needs across the company group and work towards target architecture regarding business integration.
- Lead the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s business strategy, direction and architecture.
- Consult infrastructure, project and product teams to ensure alignment with the business architecture and identify when updates are required.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Job requirements
- An Honours’ degree in BCom Informatics, BSc Computer Science, BSc Engineering or a related field, supplemented by industry-specific certifications or an equivalent qualification
- Certification in Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
- Certification in The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF); and
- 8-10 years’ relevant experience in Business Architecture and/or Domain Architecture, with at least 5 years in a Security Business Architecture environment.
Additional requirements include
- Business modelling and capability mapping
- Business attribute profiling
- Business service design and management
- Threat and risk analysis methodologies
- Architecture principles, including the development of architecture designs, views and viewpoints
- Building block design and architecture building blocks
- Solution modelling and architecture design
- Benefits analysis and value-realisation assessment
- The application of enterprise and security architecture frameworks and methodologies, including SABSA
- Security frameworks, standards and best practices, including ISO 27000 series, NIST and related industry standards
- Architecture modelling tools and notations such as ArchiMate, UML and BPMN
- Establishing, maintaining and populating architecture repositories; and
- Systems integration and the management of complex, parallel-processing environments.
Desired Skills:
- architecture design
- Benefits analysis
- Solution modelling
