KPA’s: Implement And Maintain ICT Architecture: Establish a common architecture consisting of Application and Technology Architecture Layers: Develop representation of the technical building blocks that make up the Department and their inter-relationships as well as the principles guiding their ICT design and evolution over time, enabling a standard, responsive, and efficient delivery of operational and strategic objectives. Establish and maintain a common technology architecture consisting of architecture layers for effectively and efficiently realizing enterprise and IT strategies by creating key models and practices that describe the baseline and target architectures. Define requirements for taxonomy, standards, guidelines, procedures, templates and tools, and provide a linkage for these components. Improve alignment, increase agility, improve quality of information and generate potential cost savings through initiatives such as re-use of building block components. Implement and Maintain ICT Projects: Manage All Projects from the Investment Portfolio in Alignment with Departmental Strategy: Establish and maintain a formal, approved integrated project plan framework (covering business and IT resources. Eliminate or minimize specific risks associated with programmes and/or projects through a systematic process of planning, identifying, analyzing, responding to, and monitoring and controlling the areas or events that have the potential to cause unwanted change. Measure project performance against key project performance criteria such as schedule, quality, cost and risk. Identify any deviations from the expected. Manage project work packages by placing formal requirements on authorizing and accepting work packages, and assigning and co-ordinating appropriate business and IT resources. At the end of each project, release or iteration, require the project stakeholders to ascertain whether the project, release or iteration delivered the planned results and value. Implement and maintain ICT requirements definition: identify solutions and analyze requirements before acquisition or creation to ensure that they are in line with department’s strategic requirement: Based on the business case, identify, prioritise, specify and agree on business information, functional, technical and control requirements covering the scope/understanding of all initiatives required to achieve the expected outcomes of the proposed IT-enabled business solution. Perform feasibility studies of potential alternative solutions, assess their viability and select the preferred option. If appropriate, implement the selected option as a pilot to determine possible improvements. Identify, document, prioritise and mitigate functional, technical and information processing-related risk associated with the enterprise requirements and proposed solution. Co-ordinate feedback from affected stakeholders and obtain business sponsor or product owner approval and sign-off on functional and technical requirements, feasibility studies, risk analyses and recommended solutions. Implement and maintain ICT Solutions – in line with Department-Wide Requirements: Develop, document high-level designs and elaborate detailed designs progressively using agreed-on and appropriate phased or rapid agile development techniques, addressing all components (business processes and related automated and manual controls, supporting IT applications, infrastructure services and technology products, and partners/suppliers). Ensure that the detailed design includes internal and external SLAs and OLAs. Procure solution components based on the acquisition plan in accordance with requirements and detailed designs, architecture principles and standards, and the enterprise’s overall procurement and contract procedures, QA requirements, and approval standards. Install and configure solutions and integrate with business process activities. Implement control, security and auditability measures during configuration, and during integration of hardware and infrastructural software, to protect resources and ensure availability and data integrity. Establish a test plan and required environments to test the individual and integrated solution components, including the business processes and supporting services, applications and infrastructure. Track the status of individual requirements (including all rejected requirements) throughout the project life cycle and manage the approval of changes to requirements. Implement and maintain ICT Change Acceptance: Formally accept and make Operational New Solutions: Establish an implementation plan that covers system and data conversion, acceptance testing criteria, communication, training, release preparation, promotion to production, early production support, a fallback/backout plan, and a post-implementation review. Prepare for business process, IT service data and infrastructure migration as part of the department’s development methods, including audit trails and a recovery plan should the migration fail. Promote the accepted solution to the business and operations. Where appropriate, run the solution as a pilot implementation or in parallel with the old solution for a defined period and compare behaviour and results. Manage releases of solution components. Provide early support to the users and IT operations for an agreed-on period of time to deal with issues and help stabilise the new solution. Conduct a post-implementation review to confirm outcome and results, identify lessons learned, and develop an action plan. Evaluate and check the actual performance and outcomes of the new or changed service against the predicted performance and outcomes (i.e., the service expected by the user or customer). Implement and maintain the availability of relevant, current, validated and reliable knowledge: Devise and implement a scheme to nurture and facilitate a knowledge-sharing culture. Identify, validate and classify diverse sources of internal and external information required to enable effective use and operation of business processes and IT services. Organise information based on classification criteria. Identify and create meaningful relationships between information elements and enable use of information. Identify owners and define and implement levels of access to knowledge resources. Propagate available knowledge resources to relevant stakeholders and communicate how these resources can be used to address different needs (e.g., problem solving, learning, strategic planning and decision making). Measure the use and evaluate the currency and relevance of information. Retire obsolete information. 
 

 
NOTE: Professional ICT qualifications must be accompanied by information on how to independently validate the qualification/certification. For example, Microsoft certifications have a Microsoft Certified Professional access code and transcript ID 62 can be obtained by the candidate and included in the application. Failure to furnish such information may also subject a finalist to a retake of the qualifying exam. Final selection will be derived from a combination of any of the following techniques, including but not limited to; interviews, psychometric tests, in-basket simulations, written tests, assessment centers, review of past accomplishments (performance reviews), and reference-checking. 

 
CLOSING DATE:  20 July 2018 
 
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Enquiries: Mr. M. Mbangi 040 609 6424;Mr L. Van Zuydam @ 040-609 6460.