FRANCOIS JOUBERT

Arabian Ranches, Dubai +971 (55) 790 1615 joubert.francois@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/francois-joubert-a4353aa

HEAD OF ARCHITECTURE PROFILE Results-driven, dedicated, and accomplished Enterprise Architecture Manager with an 18+-year

track record of success in strategically planning, developing, and delivering enterprise solutions for

large oganisations, including banking and finance, utilities, telecommunications, mining, and

manufacturing companies. Frequently leading architecture and cross functional teams to deliver

strategies, roadmaps and solution designs for large interdisciplinary programs. Demonstrated

expertise in enterprise architecture, business intelligence, enterprise content management, and

collaboration and knowledge management. Highly efficient in risk management with strong

awareness of ongoing and emerging trends. Proficient in analyzing and resolving complex technical

issues and applying root-cause targeted troubleshooting. Recognised leader with a history of

training, developing, and motivating team members to exceed all goals. Exemplary interpersonal

skills used to interact and build strategic alliances with clients, senior leaders, associates, vendors, and other third parties.

A R E A S O F S T R E N G T H

Enterprise Architecture Solutions Thought Leadership Strategic Planning & Execution

IT Standards Consulting Project Management

Team Leadership Training & Development Problem Solving

P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E

Emirates NBD, Dubai, UAE August 2015 – Present

Manager Enterprise Architecture

Apply technical, management, leadership, and project management expertise to apply and align strategies to SOA

principles, project engagement and collaborative solutions, and oversee project architecture governance and portfolio

optimization. Lead design and strategy development for strategic programs and core enterprise systems, including

Digitization, Siebel CRM, IBM BPM, Finacle Core Banking, and Microsoft SharePoint. Anticipate and identify problems

in architecture/systems, providing directions to resolve them. Research and evaluate emerging trends in IT for use or

deployment within the bank, including emerging technologies such as multi-functional terminals, social banking and cloud

technologies and Open-API.

Accomplishments:

Lead design initiatives for group-wide digitization program reducing time to market, improved agility and faster

automated processing using leading edge technologies and architecture approaches.

Lead cross functional design initiative to deliver strategies on omni-channel customer experience using cloud

hybrid apps and micro srvices.

Established group-wide strategic IT investment portfolio, creating overall group alignment for strategic IT

projects, reducing overall investment and increasing IT asset reuse.

Designed engagement for mobile banking and on-line banking enhancements rolling out functions, like geo-

location based alerts, cashless ATM withdrawals and transfers and direct remittance to international accounts.

Recently ranked No. 1 in the UAE.

completed an initiative, including convincing stakeholders and securing investments for the purchase of an

repository-based enterprise architecture tool.

Nedbank, Sandton, SA June 2014 – July 2015

Lead Architect

Led overall architecture design and implementation strategy of Nedbank Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

initiatives, including strategic scoping and alignment of business initiatives to ECM program, developing and designing

enterprise wide strategy for IBM FileNet implementation, and designing business solutions using IBM FileNet as a base

including solutions to solve client document remediation for compliance and risk mitigation and enterprise wide statement

management solution to enable self-service statement re-sending and billing. Responsible for portfolio planning for

enterprise wide ECM initiatives according to business strategy and initiatives and strategic planning and design of ECM

platforms and aligning to organizational strategic goals. Consulted business and group technology on future aligned

solutions for ECM. Collaborated with peers on technology, integration, and solution selection for business use cases.

Supported IT operations of future proofing, upgrading, and stabilizing ECM platforms.

Accomplishments:

Received CIO team award for successful implementation of FileNet for anti-money laundering compliance within

four months.

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P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E C O N T I N U E D

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, Johannesburg, SA February 2009 – May 2014

Senior Architect Enterprise Content Management

Developed technology portfolio, analysis and retirement planning of applications, infrastructure, data, and links to business

process for Eskom Enterprise Content Management (Hyperwave, and SAP Extended ECM), collaboration and personal

productivity (SharePoint, Microsoft Office), and governance risk and compliance systems (SAP GRC, Cura, Achiever

Plus). Created technology roadmaps and transition architectures for electronic document management systems, SharePoint,

engineering content repositories, and GRC portfolio. Introduced Microsoft SharePoint as a collaboration platform within

Eskom Architecture and business landscape. Responsible for technology innovation by assessing and testing emerging

technologies, including Microsoft SharePoint, SAP Extended ECM (OpenText), and cloud applications for personal

productivity and collaboration and for method development and tool selection for Eskom Canonical Information Model

initiative in support of Enterprise Information Management strategy. Oversaw IT strategic planning, including analysis of

business needs and translation to IT action steps for Eskom collaboration environment, Enterprise Content landscape, and

governance risk and compliance. Determined long-term plans to improve information management practices for Eskom

procurement and supply chain management.

Accomplishments:

Implemented enterprise-wide Microsoft SharePoint collaboration and web content management environment.

Successfully aligned enterprise-wide content repositories, including Oracle content management for Primavera,

Hyperwave content management, Open Text for SAP and various engineering- based content repositories.

Aligned governance risk and compliance system for organisation, increasing consistency and coherence in

compliance reporting and decreasing overall effort for producing certain critical reports.

TriVector, Johannesburg, SA May 2006 – Jan 2009

Senior Consultant

Created technology portfolio for Eskom distribution business intelligence systems, including positioning SAS, Business

Objects, and Microsoft BI systems. Developed business blueprint and roadmap for business intelligence within Eskom

distribution and wider Eskom landscape. Determined long-term technology plan, architecture, and roadmaps for improving

Eskom Knowledge Management initiatives. Conducted standards definition and exception reviews for Eskom document

management project, including project-level standards compliance activities and stage-gate architecture reviews.

Responsible for architecture development for Eskom Distribution Risk management system and analysis of risk

management requirements and translating into technology enablement steps.

Accomplishments:

Designed COBIT aligned project management processes for SASOL Shared Services.

Successfully completed architecture design and oversight of SAS-based enterprise data warehouse and business

intelligence system for Eskom Holdings.

COSA IT, Johannesburg, SA Nov 2001 – April 2016

MIS Product Manager Managed MIS development team and MIS product strategy and design, while overseeing project management of BI

projects. Served as a business analyst primarily focusing on modelling and understanding of business processes. Identified

systems requirements and design modelling with UML 2 using Enterprise Architect. Acted as client liaison while managing

account. Offered business intelligence consultation and pre-sales and marketing support. Coordinated SQL server 2005

database development and product training. Analysed, designed, and developed BI manufacturing system for SABMiller

Africa and Asia and SABMiller PLC and an HR business intelligence system for payroll innovations at First National

Bank.

Accomplishments:

Managed and designed implementation project for HR reporting, including Black Economic Empowerment

compliance aligned reports for First National Bank.

Successfully implemented capital Amortization reporting systems for Lonmin Platinum mines.

Additional professional experience includes: Discovery Health, Information Analyst, 2000-2001; Telkom, Senior

Programmer/Analyst, 1997-2000.

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E D U C A T I O N & C R E D E N T I A L S

M-Phil, Information & Knowledge Management, University of Stellenbosch 2010

B-Tech, Information Technology, Technikon of Pretoria 2000

Certifications:

TOGAF 9

Technical Skills:

Aris; Sparx Enterprise Architect; Microsoft SharePoint; SAS BI; Oracle SQL/PLSql; SunOS/Solaris;

Shell Scripting; Perl; MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Access/Outlook/SQL/Analysis Services

Affiliations:

Toastmasters International, Member