Website South African National Parks (SANParks)
South African National Parks is one of the world's leading conservation and scientific research bodies and a leading proponent of maintaining the indigenous natural environment. South African National Parks, (SANParks), manages a system of parks which represents the indigenous fauna, flora, lands… read morecapes and associated cultural heritage of the country. Of all the national parks, most have overnight tourist facilities, with an unrivalled variety of accommodation in arid, coastal, mountain and bushveld habitats. National parks offer visitors an unparalleled diversity of adventure tourism opportunities including game viewing, bush walks, canoeing and exposure to cultural and historical experiences. Conferences can also be organised in many of the parks. The national parks are: Addo Elephant, Agulhas, Augrabies, Bontebok, Camdeboo, Garden Route, Golden Gate, Karoo, Kgalagadi, Kruger, Mapungubwe, Marakele, Mokala, Mountain Zebra, Namaqua, Table Mountain,Tankwa Karoo, West Coast and |Ai-|Ais/Richtersveld.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Definition, implementation, and execution of the processes for the definition, maintenance, and conformance management of AP’s systems architecture.
Ensure all systems and business system owners understand the operating model of the systems and their touch-points between each other.
Define the system of systems enterprise architecture diagrams that illustrate the integrations, virtual, physical and logical views of the platforms.
Consult system vendors ensure contractual obligations define constraints and API, integration management.
Ensure business representatives have data custodians for the management and reconciliation of data between core systems (such as finance and payroll), to ensure data integrity is audited and validated each financial cycle.
Error management controls and procedures are in place and both technical teams and vendors understand their role in maintaining production systems.
Disaster recovery procedures and business continuity is in place and tested where systems are reliant on underlying hosting within AP.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Enterprise Architecture diagrams
API, middleware, store & forward queue definitions and ownership/ role agreement
Error management: review, identification, resolution and reporting
Vendor roles and responsibilities
Technology, Super user and external vendor responsibilities
Data integrity profiling and review frequency protocols
Data warehouse platform architecture, the interfaces to downstream and upstream, the normalization/ data relational structure mapping to APIs
Network management – WAN, WWAN, VPN, LAN standards and SOP
Network monitoring solution – dashboards and notifications (incl escalation)
KEY RELATIONSHIP
Key stakeholders
Technology Vendors and Partners
Technology Management
Business System Owners
Super Users
Regional Technology Teams
Park Technology Officers
Indirect stakeholders
End users
Park management
Peripheral IT suppliers and services
Regional office staff
Audit and risk team
JOB SPECIFICATION
Engages business, system vendors, technology teams and defines the architecture models that illustrate the integrations, the security, network and hosting requirements.
Security constraints, data segregation, data flows and data management for store-and-forward queues for offline management of systems.
Design network device management and monitoring and systems accessibility management.
The consultant in business process analysis and design, and service delivery, particularly with respect to the use of master data management to align business rules.
Consults business systems owners to advise of constraints or rules that are dependent on physical system interoperability to ensure procures and rules are in place to govern data integrity.
Requirements
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS (Formal artifacts/ documents)
Enterprise Architecture diagrams
API, middleware, store & forward queue definitions and ownership/ role agreement
Error management: review, identification, resolution and reporting
Vendor roles and responsibilities
Technology, Super user and external vendor responsibilities
Data integrity profiling and review frequency protocols
Data warehouse platform architecture, the interfaces to downstream and upstream, the normalization/ data relational structure mapping to APIs
Network management – WAN, WWAN, VPN, LAN standards and SOP
Network monitoring solution – dashboards and notifications (incl escalation)
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