Senior ManagerEnterprise Architect

Job Description

KEY REQUIREMENTS Key Accountabilities: Lead and Influence

• Lead the creation or evolution of the enterprise architecture program/function (if managing and appointed as chief enterprise architect).
• Promote the business value of the EA program/function and its process, and the results of the EA program to business and IT leaders/executives.
• Lead the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business strategy and requirements.
• Seek opportunities to highlight how digital business initiatives will potentially impact enterprises economic architecture and metrics

Focus on Strategy and Execution

• Demonstrate the business value of EA as an enabler of strategy formulation, and as support for technology innovation, which drives the organizations top and bottom lines.
• Formulate, translate, advocate, support and execute business strategy to achieve the organizations targeted business outcomes.
• Construct technology-enabled operating models, and provide viable options and visibility into execution issues.

Research and Understand Technology and Nontechnology Trends

• Scan the world for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business. Provide practical advice and best practices to overcome these challenges and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.
• Contextualize the technology trends based on social, economic, political and other nontechnology trends.
• Lead the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprises business strategy, direction and architecture.

Enable Enterprise Ideation and Innovation

• Track and apply innovative and existing technologies, anchoring them in the business model to assess their potential, and use rapid prototyping approaches to evolve innovations.
• Run technology experiments, helping to create new products and services and integrating the best of theses into steady-state operations for the organization.

Determine and Help Orchestrate the Delivery of Business Outcomes

• Guide and advise stakeholders about disruptive technologies and trends.
• Determine the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and things of the enterprise, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment.
• Work with business peers to develop and present business capability models and roadmaps to facilitate discussion and decision making with stakeholders across the enterprise.
• Lead analysis of the business future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement and driving the business forward.
• Work with business peers and lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business outcomes and drivers to derive useful business context, and in response to disruptive forces.
• Develop diagnostic and actionable deliverables that help business guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy.
• Lead analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Provide perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate.
• Present a gap analysis and/or IT investment roadmap that reflects the status of the existing IT estate, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
• Lead the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and IT strategies.
• Oversee EA implementation and ongoing refinement activities.

Skills

• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics

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Keyskills :
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