Chief Advisor Enterprise Architecture

About the role

Position/Task Grade: G17 Area of specialization: Lead Eskom’s enterprise architecture design and develop information system (IS) architecture, shaping the technology decisions and target architectures that enable transformation. Serve as a trusted executive advisor, setting architecture direction while embedding cyber and information security by design using appropriate framework to improve organisational capability, change, support and reduce cost. Department: Enterprise Architecture Business Unit: Enterprise Architecture Location: Megawatt Park Reference Number: 50807082SM Closing Date: 29 October 2026

Responsibilities

• Behavioural
• Build internal and external networks to sustain collaborative interactions and partnerships
• Create an environment that promotes the exchange of information between the business, IT and external service providers
• Flexible and able to work within an undefined and continuously changing environment
• Intellectual and ethical integrity
• Embraces diversity
• Leadership
• Team building and consulting
• Manage cross functional IT teams
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Collaborate within EA Team, Group Technology and across Eskom business units .
• Knowledge
• Enterprise Architecture strategy, target architectures, principles, standards, reference models and transformation roadmaps
• Cyber and information security architecture, including security-by-design, IAM, data protection, risk management and resilience
• End-to-end architecture across business, information/data, applications, integration, cloud/on-premises technology and IT/OT
• Architecture governance and assurance, including TOGAF, COBIT, ITIL and relevant cyber and information security standards
• Ability to translate business strategy, risk and technology change into architecture decisions and investment priorities
• Create and document design concept reference models
• Estimate EA resource outlays for projects
• Adapt technical solutions to complex business situations and strategies
• Business functional knowledge - understands the interactions between business processes and support activities
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Business re-engineering principles and processes, systems engineering and analysis
• Comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
• IT and architecture frameworks the open group architecture framework (TOGAF), information technology infrastructure library (ITIL), control objectives for information and related technologies (COBIT), Zachman
• Merging technology awareness to evaluate technical, business and economic impact, viability and integration requirements of new and evolving technologies
• Analyse business operations and processes to understand relationships
• Design and implement information solutions
• Business analysis and business case development
• Skill
• Organisational
• Information gathering and interviewing
• Verbal and written communication, executive communication, strategic analysis and architecture storytelling
• Leadership, influencing, negotiating and decision facilitation
• Enterprise stakeholder engagement and cross-functional alignment
• Key Responsibilities
• Provide division strategic leadership for IT/OT information systems, technology and
• Strategy
• Provide an assessment and consultation function
• Define and manage the information systems architecture processes and governance
• Structures
• Provide division strategic reference architecture specifications, principles and policy
• Provide division strategic, tactical targets and planning.

Requirements

• Qualification(s)
• B Degree/B Tech/National Higher Diploma/Advanced Diploma in Information Technology/Information Management/Computer Science/Information Systems/Operation Technology at NQF7 with 360 credits
• Related Experience
• 7 years’ Experience in information management (IM)/information
• systems (IS)/information technology (IT/)/operation technology (OT) architecture