IM Enterprise Architect Infrastructure

Additional Information

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Company Description

Valterra Platinum Limited (Valterra Platinum), formerly Anglo American Platinum Limited, is a leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), with integrated mining, smelting, and refining operations in South Africa and Zimbabwe, marketing the metal we produce globally. Following its demerger from Anglo American plc, Valterra Platinum is now an independent, publicly listed company with a primary and secondary listing on the Johannesburg and London stock exchanges respectively. As we embark on this exciting new chapter, Valterra Platinum is positioned to define and pursue its own strategy, anchored in safety, operational excellence, sustainability, and value creation for the long-term. With full accountability for our performance and growth, we are focused on strengthening our capabilities across the entire PGM value chain, from mine to market.
Our independence empowers us to deepen our commitment to stakeholders and lead with purpose – to “Unearth Value to Better Our World”. We remain steadfast in our ambition to be the world’s foremost producer of platinum group metals, while embedding safety and sustainability in everything we do.

Job Description

The IM Enterprise Architect – Infrastructure is responsible for defining and governing the enterprise technology infrastructure architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives, operational needs, and industry best practices. The role focuses on enterprise-wide infrastructure strategies, cloud, networking, service management and automation to achieve targeted business
outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks and improving sustainability. The incumbent ensures that infrastructure strategies are scalable, secure, cost-efficient and optimized to support business operations in the mining industry.

1. Safety: Create a safety culture through productive and authorized operational systems/processes that allow all employees (including contracting partners) to provide their outputs in a risk-controlled environment. Oversee consistent application of Safety & Health principles in all discipline interactions and take personal responsibility for safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.

2. Performance and Delivery
• Infrastructure Strategy & Roadmap: Develop and maintain the infrastructure architecture framework and cloud strategy ensuring alignment with business priorities, future scalability and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
• Builds the EA value proposition: Positioning the EA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.
• Develops and applies minimal viable architectures: Includes a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles and guardrails, through the EA governance model
• Technology Selection & Standardization: Evaluate and recommend infrastructure solutions that enhance efficiency and innovation.
• Cloud & On-Premise Strategies: Define and implement strategies for cloud migrations, hybrid environments, and SaaS adoption.
• Cost optimisation: Analyze infrastructure costs and identify areas for cost reduction
• Security & Compliance: Ensure infrastructure solutions comply with cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaboration with IT & Business Leaders: Work closely with business units, CIO, IM Portfolio & Architecture team, and IT security teams to drive infrastructure modernization efforts.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management: Support digital transformation initiatives by communicating architectural best practices and ensuring business adoption of new technologies.
• Technical Guidance: Collaborates with infrastructure delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
• Ensure alignment with emerging technologies and possible recommendation of new technologies.

3. People & Teams
• Implement a purpose-driven, high-performing culture that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity, supports engagement and fosters continuous improvement to work processes.

4. Compliance
Ensure compliance with internal and external regulatory, legislative and permitting requirements.

Key internal relationships:

• Head of IM
• Enterprise & Business Applications Teams
• Business Unit Leaders (Finance, Operations, P&O, Supply Chain)
• IT Infrastructure & Security Teams
• Data Governance, Business Intelligence, and Analytics Teams
• Governance & Compliance teams
• Digital Transformation & Innovation Teams

Key external relationships:

• Enterprise & Business Application Vendors
• Cloud & Data Platform Providers
• Industry Regulators & Compliance Bodies
• System Integration & Consulting Partners

Mental processing ability:

This work requires the ability to draw on data in order to make a diagnosis. Then decide between
alternative methods to address individual case(s). Recommend improvements to processes/ systems.

Qualifications

Prescribed

Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or
equivalent experience.

Desriable:

Master’s degree in business, computer science, engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.

Certifications

Prescribed:

Enterprise Architecture Frameworks

Valid EB/Code 08 driver’s licence

Desirable:

Cloud-related Architecture certifications, ITSM, IT Governance &
Security Certification

Technical Knowledge

Experience:
5-7 Years of experience in
• Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud Architecture, or Digital Transformation.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in cloud migrations.
• Proven experience in infrastructure rationalization, modernization, and automation in a large enterprise.
• Hands-on experience managing technology vendors, contracts, and system
integrators.
• Experience working with regulatory and compliance requirements for data security and privacy, business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Mining industry experience preferred, with a strong understanding of operational and business applications.

Technical knowledge required for role:
• Deep understanding of data governance, data privacy, and security best practices.
• Expertise in cloud computing, virtualisation and hybrid application architectures.
• Strong background in API management, middleware platforms, and system integrations.
• Experience in enterprise-wide infrastructure modernization and automation
• Knowledge of data lakes, data warehouses, and real-time analytics frameworks.

• Proficiency in DevOps methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices architecture.

Technical Skills:

• Expert skill in enterprise-wide data governance, cybersecurity best practices, and digital transformation strategy.
• Expert skill in enterprise applications integration, cloud migration, and microservices architecture.
• Advanced skill in data governance, database management, and data warehousing.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud services
• Developing skill in AI-driven data analytics and machine learning applications

Social processing skills:

Self-awareness, and of behaviours that successfully drive or hinder team performance and collaboration

Application:

Demonstrate drive, determination, persistence, and commitment to apply other elements of capability work

Other requirements:

Medical certificate of fitness
There could be ad hoc requirements from time to time including need to travel