Digital Enterprise Architect Senior Manager

With a broad understanding of the full lifecycle of our clients’ business, EY has the knowledge and experience to integrate digital strategy where it makes the most impact. EY’s digital solutions offer a balance of business, technology, strategy and architecture. EY works with high profile clients across the region, working to solve some of their most challenging issues. As our practice continues to grow quickly, EY is actively investing in the latest digital technology and talent. This is the perfect time to join and make your mark on significant digital projects across a wide variety of industries, platforms, and technologies, and make a transformative impact on our clients’ business.
**The opportunity**
Technology Consulting business is a fast-growing sub-service line within EY’s Consulting service line. A dynamic group focused on providing high value independent, trusted advice to clients, with a focus on transformation programmes.
The Intelligent Automation domain works with clients in creating value and delivering world-class IT capabilities to support business needs. Working closely with our industry groups and leveraging the EY brand as independent, trusted advisors, we provide our high-profile clients with a range of services including:
- IT Strategy and Sourcing Advisory
- Enterprise Architecture Services
- Digital Transformation (including Robotics (RPA), Cloud, Analytics, Cyber, Mobility, Social Media, Internet of Things, etc.)
- IT Operating Model Design, IT Functions Transformation &
IT Governance
We are seeing massive growth and potential in Intelligent Automation across multiple sectors including Financial Services, Energy and Resources, Retail, Auto, Telecom, Life Sciences, Government, etc.
We are seeking a highly experienced individual that has worked in an Intelligent Automation space with large recognised businesses in South Africa / abroad.
This is a leadership role guiding clients on their IT and digital vision, strategy, architecture and transformation roadmap as they embark on and build their digital journey. Most of your time will be spent embedded with our clients’ team and we’ll look to you to provide them with a unique business perspective on how they must continue to innovate, mitigate risk and remain competitive with digital capability and technologies in this ever-changing industry.
**Your key responsibilities**
- Drive continued growth and profitability for EY, by identifying and capitalizing on business development opportunities in existing and potential clients for own and other areas of the firm.
- Leading practice development and engagement delivery.
- The individual should be adept at people development and senior management for the practice.
- Build long-term relationships with key client decision makers which are based on mutual respect;
act as a trusted advisor to key decision makers.
- Engage customers to gain trusted-advisor status with the CIO / CTO and other CXO-level executives of large enterprises in South Africa and offer innovative services around Digital, Enterprise Application Landscape Architecture and Optimization, Infrastructure Reengineering and overall optimization and enhanced realization of ROI on IT investments.
- Be a thought leader on Enterprise IT adoption/strategies and on adoption of state of the art technology trends and emerging design patterns. Should be able to represent the firm in leading conferences/forums on Information Technology issues and trends.
- Anticipate clients’ Technology needs well beyond current engagements, adding value to the clients’ long-term business.
- Identify industry issues faced by key accounts and adapt offerings with relevant industry content to meet client needs.
- Consult to clients making investment decisions on Information Technology and using IT for transforming their organisations.
- Drive IT projects with clients while managing the budget, timelines and quality of end deliverables.
Develop and execute strategies, architectures, and roadmaps to provide the client with need-based, value-adding, and cost-effective Digital solutions.
- Define cross-functional view of an organization’s digital capabilities.
- Help clients gain insight into their digital maturity and quantifying digital benefits to the enterprise.
- Design client digital uplift programs.
- Develop client digital journeys. Establish the why, the what and the how of making the transition. Help establish the business case. Document the overall digital transformation roadmap for change.
- Architect and design digital products and solutions.
- Team with various EY groups with digital, data, cyber and cloud capabilities to pursue and deliver end-to-end digital engagements and enable solutions that will bring our client’s digital vision and strategy to life.
**To qualify for the role, you must have**
- Bachelor's degree ideally in technology (Business with MIS, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems)
- Pr