Enterprise Architect

Job Summary

The Enterprise Architect (EA) is responsible for establishing, leading, and governing the Enterprise Architecture function to ensure alignment between business strategy and technology investments. The role drives the development of enterprise-wide architecture frameworks, standards, and roadmaps, while guiding solution, application, data, and infrastructure architecture to support organizational objectives. The Enterprise Architect ensures technology decisions are strategically aligned, cost-effective, scalable, and sustainable.

Responsibilities

§ Leads the creation and/or evolution of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) function/program, including coordination of an appropriately balanced pursuit of enterprise business, information, technical and solution architectures.

§ Understands, advocates and augments the principles of IT strategies.

§ Leads the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solutions architecture requirements.

§ Analyzes the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommends solutions for improvement.

§ Analyzes technology industry and market trends and determines potential impact on the enterprise.

§ Leads and develops partnership with Business Relations team in creation of business capability roadmaps.

§ “Sells” the architecture process, its outcome and ongoing results to the organization and its IT and business leaders.

§ Leads/facilitates the creation of principles to guide technology decisions for the enterprise.

§ Designs and leads the implementation plan of the EA based on business requirements and IT strategies.

§ Modeling the technical landscape to analyze the alignment of business capabilities with delivered technology and IT solutions

§ Analyzing the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and collaborating with Enterprise Architecture from other lines of business and development team architects to recommend solutions for improvement

§ Communicating the value delivered by the Enterprise Architecture process by communicating outcomes and ongoing results

§ Defining the principles that guide technology decisions for the segment

§ Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring compliance with EA.

§ Oversees enterprise architecture implementation and modification activities.

§ Oversees the evaluation and selection of hardware and software product standards and the design of standard configurations.

§ Consults with application development projects to fit systems to architecture and identifies when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate project needs.

§ Consults with infrastructure development projects to fit infrastructure to architecture and identifies when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate infrastructure needs.

§ Identifies the organizational (skills, processes, structures, and culture) and financial impact of EA.

§ Oversees the documentation of all architecture design and analysis work.

§ Leads development and execution of a communication (including education) plan for EA.

§ Assesses and communicates the achievement and impact of EA.

§ Develops IT strategies.

Qualifications

§ Bachelor in IT or Relevant

§ Relevance will be reviewed and confirmed by ISD in line with technical competencies of applicant.

Experience

§ 12 years of IT experience in at least two IT disciplines, with experience in business analysis and/or business strategic planning and EA experience

§ Strong TOGAF knowledge

Skills

Technology Management:

§ Ability to translate business needs into technical architecture requirements.

§ Ability to understand the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term perspectives

§ Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technology.

§ Robust analytical and technical skills.

§ Knowledge and experience with business and technology capability mapping

§ Knowledge and experience with the capture and application of business architecture to the development of enterprise architecture.

§ Knowledge of all components of technical architecture.

§ Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes.

§ Good understanding of network architecture.

§ Good understanding of service-oriented analysis and design.

Vendor Management:

§ Skill and experience with information technology suppliers

Customer/Client Management:

§ Strong oral and written communication skills, in order to facilitate client relationships and build consensus

§ Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to business problems.

§ Strong interpersonal skills including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.

Team Management:

§ Strong leadership/people management and skills

§ Good planning and organizational skills.