IT Business Architect, Johannesburg

Position Overview Applications are invited for the position of Business Architect (Grade 7) based at Head Office, Bruma. The successful applicant will be reporting to the Head of Enterprise Architecture. Purpose: To define, develop, and maintain ATNS' enterprise business architecture by aligning business capabilities, processes, and structures with strategic business requirements and objectives, to ensure that enterprise system transformation initiatives are guided by coherent architectural principles, enabling effective change management, capability development, and value realization, to support management decision‑making by providing a business‑focused lens within the enterprise architecture function, and serves as a critical bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams and to ensure continuous research in the industry to identify trends and new technologies that can be implemented internally to enhance the current Safety, Security, Health and Environment policies, processes and procedures.

Responsibilities

Business Architecture Models:

Provide a blueprint that aligns IT with business strategy, enabling strategic planning, change impact assessment, and capability‑based planning. Develop and maintain current‑state and future‑state business capability models. Map business functions to services, capabilities, processes, and applications. Engage with business units to gather, analyse and validate requirements. Conduct workshops and working sessions to co‑create architectural solutions.

Business Capability Gap Analysis:

Identify gaps between current and desired business capabilities. Enable evidence‑based decisions on where to invest, retire, or enhance capabilities to support organisational performance improvement. Support prioritisation of transformation initiatives.

Strategic Alignment of Initiatives:

Translate business requirements into system architecture requirements and specifications to ensure the realisation of business value and prevent misaligned initiatives and wasted resources. Ensure all TI projects and programmes align with business requirements and enterprise architecture principles. Ensure business value realisation from ICT investments and prevent misaligned initiatives that waste resources.

Business Architecture Governance, Compliance&Risk Management:

Ensure compliance with IT and Enterprise Architecture policies and processes, as well as all relevant legislation. Define and enforce enterprise system architecture standards and guidelines to minimise risk of disruption, identify dependencies, and ensure readiness for transformation. Support consistency, interoperability, and compliance with organisational standards. Identify risks and develop and implement approved mitigation plans and actions. Review and contribute to architectural decisions at governance forums.

Change Impact Assessment:

Assess impact of proposed changes to business capabilities, processes, and services. Minimise risk of disruption, identify dependencies, and ensure readiness for transformation. Provide architectural insights to support change control processes.

Support for Enterprise Architecture Artifacts:

Integrate business architecture into broader Enterprise Architecture discipline, enhancing traceability and reuse of architectural assets. Contribute business perspective to enterprise system architecture reference models and roadmaps. Maintain repository of system architecture documentation.

Innovation&Continuous Improvement:

Improve organisational agility through structured innovation and modernisation of system architecture. Monitor industry trends, business innovation and best practices. Recommend improvements to business models and services using architectural insights.

Stakeholder Relations Management:

Develop sound relationships with key internal and external stakeholders through continued communication and engagement to support ongoing collaboration and alignment. Promote collaboration and ensure business needs are accurately captured and reflected in architectural outputs.

Formal Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Information Systems, Business Administration or a related field.

Professional certifications preferred (e.g., CBA, TOGAF).

Desired Qualifications and Experience

Minimum 5 years of experience in business analysis or system architecture.

ICT Governance and Compliance (e.g., COBIT, ITIL).

Experience with security regulations and standards (e.g., POPIA, ISO 27001, NIST).

Familiarity with risk assessment tools and security operations (SOC/SIEM).

ATNS is an equal opportunity employer that strives to achieve a diverse workforce broadly representative of our people. This position will be filled in line with the objectives of ATNS’ Employment Equity Plan and therefore candidates from designated groups, as per the Employment Equity Act of 1998, are encouraged to apply.

People with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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