The Enterprise Architect will design, govern, and optimise DBSA’s enterprise architecture across business, data, application, and technology domains. This role ensures treasury, CRM, procurement, and ERP platforms are strategically aligned, integrated, and future-proof, enabling DBSA to modernise internal processes, deliver client-centric digital services, and achieve the digital transformation strategic objectives.
1. Enterprise Architecture Strategy
- Develop and maintain DBSA’s enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, and roadmaps in alignment with the decadal strategy and growth objectives.
- Translate the organisational and digitalisation strategy into integrated architecture domains, to ensure alignment of architecture with
- DBSA’s strategic objectives, digital transformation priorities, and regulatory requirements.
- Provide architectural oversight for Treasury, Customer Relationship (CRM), procurement, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Data,
- Security, Automation and other enterprise systems.
- Support the achievement of the digitalisation strategy and digital transformation initiatives across the organisation, and align the enterprise architecture function.
- Establish and enforce architecture principles, standards, frameworks, and best practices.
- Provide architecture governance and assurance across projects, programmes, and technology initiatives.
- Identify opportunities for innovation across architecture, platforms, and processes and promote the use of emerging technologies to enhance performance.
- Benchmark DBSA’s architecture practices against international standards to drive continuous improvement in architecture maturity, tools, and methodologies.
2. Enterprise Architecture Design and Implementation
- Partner with business units to translate strategic objectives and business needs into architectural requirements.
- Design the end-to-end enterprise architecture, ensuring alignment across systems, processes, and platforms.
- Drive interoperability and integration across applications, data, and infrastructure environments...
- Review and approve solution designs to ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards.
- Provide architectural guidance for major programmes and projects.
- Manage dependencies across systems and transformation initiatives.
- Support benefits realisation by ensuring architecture delivers measurable outcomes.
- Provide strategic advisory on technology investments, innovation, and optimisation opportunities.
- Support business case development through scenario planning and capability modelling.
- Validate and implement alignment of data architecture, governance, and analytics capabilities with business needs.
3. Risk, Compliance & Security Integration
- Embed information security, data privacy, and resilience principles into architecture frameworks.
- Collaborate with Information Security & GRC to ensure secure and compliant designs.
- Maintain risk registers for architecture decisions and monitor mitigation strategies.
4. Stakeholder Management
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders such as EXCO and the Board, as well as government entities, commercial banks, development partners, and community representatives, to drive shared objectives.
- Build and manage strategic partnerships with national, provincial, and local government stakeholders.
- Manage external vendors and negotiate data acquisition contracts.
- Represent the organisation in data-related engagements with external partners.
- Communicate architecture strategies and decisions in clear, business-oriented language.
- Mentor and coach teams to build architecture capability within DBSA.
- Represent DBSA in external forums to benchmark against global best practices.
5. Reporting and Governance
- Establish and enforce governance frameworks and reporting mechanisms to ensure transparency, compliance, and effective decision-making across all operations.
- Establish and enforce architecture principles, standards, frameworks, and best practices.
- Provide architecture governance and assurance across projects, programmes, and technology initiatives.
- Review and approve solution designs to ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards.
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting of key performance indicators, risks, and progress against strategic objectives to relevant internal and external bodies.
6. People Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning to maximise individual and collective potential.
- Drive talent development initiatives, including coaching, performance management, and career pathing, to build and retain a skilled and motivated team.
- Provide direction and management to the Division, to enable strategy execution.
- Attract, retain, develop talent and ensure succession planning and sufficient capacity and capability in all critical functions, supporting diversity strategies and initiatives as well.
- Promote DBSA values and a culture of high performance through implementing performance management in line with the planned strategic objectives, goals, quality standards and agreed key performance measures using sound performance management principles.
- Contribute to building synergies & cooperation across functions in the DBSA.
Key measurements of outputs:
- Percentage alignment of enterprise architecture to DBSA’s strategic objectives and transformation roadmap.
- Timeliness and quality of architecture artefacts (frameworks, roadmaps, standards, solution designs).
- % of projects and solutions are compliant with enterprise architecture principles.
- Reduction in duplication, complexity, and cost through architecture optimisation.
- Adoption rate of architecture standards across treasury, CRM, procurement, and ERP systems.
- Effectiveness of architecture governance (measured by audit outcomes and compliance reviews).
- Stakeholder satisfaction with architecture services and decision-making processes.
- Measurable improvements in scalability, interoperability, and resilience of systems.
- Risk mitigation effectiveness in architecture decisions.
- Capability maturity improvements in enterprise architecture practices.
INTERNAL LIAISON RELATIONSHIP (*The list is not exhaustive)
- Digital & Business Transformation Division
- All internal stakeholders
EXTERNAL LIAISON RELATIONSHIP (*The list is not exhaustive)
- Third-party/Service providers
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business Administration.
Minimum Experience
- A minimum of 10 years’ experience in enterprise architecture, IT strategy, or business process optimisation. This experience must include a minimum of 3 years of supervisory/leading a team experience.
- Proven track record in designing and implementing architecture frameworks within financial services or development finance institutions.
- Strong background in treasury systems, CRM platforms, procurement solutions, cloud and ERP technologies.
- Experience in business process modelling, capability mapping, and solution design.
- Hands-on experience with integration technologies and data platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to engage and influence executives, boards, and external stakeholders.
- Exposure to regulatory compliance, risk management, and governance frameworks.
Desirable Requirements
- Postgraduate qualification (MBA, Master’s in Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, or Process Engineering).
- Professional certifications such as TOGAF, COBIT, ITIL, PMP, or Agile/Scrum.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
a) Digital Literacy
- Conduct research and have awareness of the latest trends in the digital space that affect the Organisation and the business unit.
- Seek out innovative approaches and interventions to improve digital agility.
- To identify technical problems when operating devices and using digital environments, and to solve them (from troubleshooting to solving more complex problems).
- Stay abreast of the latest trends and incorporate them in driving change in the business.
b) Data Collection and Analysis
- Through a mastery of advanced/complex analytical techniques, establishes high-level trends from processed data which may not be immediately apparent.
- Moves beyond concrete analysis of factual information to develop an abstract, conceptual understanding of the meaning of an array of
information.
- Integrates diverse themes and lines of reasoning to create new insights or levels of understanding.
c) Data Management
- Defines a backup strategy in line with the disaster management strategy.
- Monitors file storage policy compliance by users, identifies concern areas and addresses the same.
- Defines parameters for backup testing and monitors the same. Conducts detailed backup tests to ensure data integrity.
d) Strategic Planning
- Establishes challenging, attainable goals and objectives based on a customer focus perspective.
- Looks to the future with a broad perspective.
- Ensures performance measures are in place to monitor progress and assess accomplishments and achievement of strategic goals and objectives.
- Develops initiatives to achieve goals and objectives.
- Articulates the vision and plans to others.
e) Knowledge Management
- Identifies, develops, and articulates knowledge management strategies that will add value to the organisation.
- Engages with thought leaders within and outside the organisation to identify the value of knowledge and information to the organisation and develop a knowledge-based vision.
- Ensures that knowledge management strategies are embedded within corporate strategies and key business processes.
- Fosters a knowledge and information-rich culture and ensures that knowledge management competencies are recognised as core competencies of the organisation to develop individual and organisational capability.
- Fosters the development of appropriate knowledge and information assets and the adoption of effective knowledge management processes, tools, and standards.
f) Reporting
- Designs, reviews, and improves reporting processes and provides guidance.
- Leads production of complex environment reports, takes an editorial role, determines content and level of detail, and ensures consistent messaging and branding.
g) Data Collection and Analysis
- Through a mastery of advanced/complex analytical techniques, establishes high-level trends from processed data which may not be immediately apparent.
- Moves beyond concrete analysis of factual information to develop an abstract, conceptual understanding of the meaning of an array of information.
- Integrates diverse themes and lines of reasoning to create new insights or levels of understanding.
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
a) Analytical Thinking
- Identifies multiple elements of a problem and breaks down each of those elements in detail, showing causal relationships between them.
- Uses several analytical techniques to identify several solutions and weighs the value of each.
b) Information Seeking and Analysis
- Analyses relationships among several parts of a problem or situation.
- Anticipates obstacles and thinks ahead about next steps in detail.
c) Leading and Empowering Others
- Identifies long-term goals for the team and communicates them to team members, ensuring their buy-in.
- Sets a good example by personally exercising desired behaviour, acts on values and beliefs.
- Communicates a vision for the team and future success that inspires team members.
- After assessing others’ competence, one delegates full authority and responsibility to others to do a task in their own way.
- Ensures that competent employees are given opportunities to further their careers.
d) Leading and Managing Change
- Anticipates the need for change when not obvious and influences others to gain support.
- Builds sustainable business and organisational capacity to embrace and thrive on change.
- Re-engineers and aligns structures, processes, and practices to support and sustain the desired change.
e) Strategic and Innovative Thinking
- Understands connections and trade-offs of strategic choices to evaluate which ideas are practical and possible by considering business and/or scientific implications.
- Develops innovative business and/or customer solutions that shape industry practices.
- The KPA’s, competencies and relationships listed in this document are not exhaustive, and the incumbent will be expected to undertake additional duties within their capacity to meet the needs of business and/or the business unit.
