Enterprise Application Architect

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) presents an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Application Architect to join the Enterprise Architecture team at CCBA. The role will report to the Group Head: Enterprise Architecture.

CCBA is the 8th largest Coca-Cola authorised bottler in the world by revenue, and the largest on the continent. It accounts for over 40% of all Coca-Cola ready-to-drink beverages sold in Africa by volume. With over 14,000 employees in Africa, CCBA services more than 800,000 customers with a portfolio of international and local brands across 14 African markets.

The Enterprise Application Architect is responsible for governing, managing, and evolving CCBA's enterprise application portfolio and application architecture landscape to ensure that technology investments, business capabilities, and application platforms remain aligned to business strategy, architecture principles, and future-state technology objectives. The role serves as the custodian of the enterprise application estate, providing enterprise-wide visibility of application capabilities, dependencies, ownership, lifecycle status, and strategic alignment across the organisation.

• Enterprise Application Portfolio Management: Maintain a complete, accurate, and governed view of CCBA's enterprise application landscape, including ownership, lifecycle status, vendor relationships, and business alignment.
• Business Capability Alignment: Map applications to business capabilities and identify capability gaps, overlaps, duplication, and optimization opportunities to support strategic business priorities.
• Enterprise Ecosystem Architecture: Develop and maintain enterprise-wide application landscape views, communication models, dependency maps, and architecture artefacts that provide visibility across the technology ecosystem.
• Application Governance & Reviews: Lead portfolio reviews, application health assessments, and governance activities to support architecture decision-making and technology investment prioritization.
• Application Lifecycle Management: Govern application lifecycles, monitor application health and technical debt, and provide recommendations for modernization, optimization, retirement, and replacement initiatives.
• Architecture Repository Management: Maintain enterprise architecture repositories, application catalogues, capability maps, roadmaps, and supporting architecture documentation.
• Strategic Planning & Investment Enablement: Support business and technology planning processes by providing application portfolio insights, investment recommendations, and future-state application roadmaps.
• Enterprise Architecture Collaboration: Partner with Enterprise Architects, Platform Architects, Solution Architects, Security Architects, Data Architects, Infrastructure Architects, and business stakeholders to ensure a consistent and integrated enterprise architecture approach.
• Enterprise application portfolio management
• Application architecture governance
• Business capability mapping and alignment
• Application lifecycle management
• Enterprise ecosystem architecture
• Application rationalization and modernization
• Architecture governance and portfolio reviews
• Technology investment and roadmap planning
• Enterprise application repository management
• Application dependency and relationship modelling
• Stakeholder engagement and architecture advisory
• Architecture standards and governance compliance.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
• Postgraduate qualification in Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Technology Management, or related discipline advantageous
• TOGAF certification or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification advantageous
• Architecture modelling certifications (ArchiMate, BPMN, or similar) advantageous

Experience

• 8-12 years' experience in Enterprise Architecture, Application Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Technology Strategy roles
• Experience managing enterprise application portfolios within large, complex organizations
• Experience developing business capability models and application landscape architectures
• Experience with application lifecycle management, portfolio governance, and modernization initiatives
• Experience participating in Architecture Review Boards, governance forums, and technology investment processes
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks and modelling methodologies
• FMCG, manufacturing, distribution, or multi-national enterprise experience advantageous
• Experience working across multiple technology domains including ERP, Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Analytics, and Collaboration platforms advantageous.

Skills

• Enterprise Application Architecture
• Application Portfolio Management
• Business Capability Modelling
• Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (TOGAF, ArchiMate)
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Technology Roadmap Development
• Application Rationalization and Modernization
• Enterprise Architecture Governance
• Architecture Repository Management
• Business and Technology Strategy Alignment
• Application Dependency and Ecosystem Modelling
• Analytical and Conceptual Thinking
• Governance and Decision Support
• Technical Documentation and Architecture Standards
• Stakeholder Engagement and Executive Communication
• Facilitation and Influencing Skills
• Strategic Planning and Portfolio Optimization
• Vendor and Technology Partner Management
• Problem Solving and Continuous Improvement
• Presentation, Reporting, and Architecture Visualization