ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

The Enterprise Architect (EA) should proactively help guide through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of future strategy, based on aligning and pursuing a robust and scalable enterprise architecture, that enables growth strategy. The EA’s scope of activities includes helping achieve targeted business outcomes related to grow revenue, optimizing costs and mitigating risks. He should focus on building relationships with business and IT stakeholders, communicating the value of Enterprise Architecture and the services it offers.The EA’s focus is to:· Engage business and IT stakeholders, creating and building relationships· Communicate the value of enterprise architecture, and its portfolio of services· Drive the evolution of the enterprise architecture services and operating model· Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape· Define the advisory process, enterprise architecture process, and architecture governance, and for leading the integration of those processes with related business and IT functions.· Prioritize and develop the overall enterprise architecture approach for the organization, and communicates architectural direction, in alignment with the overall growth strategy.Credentials and Experience● Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.● Ten or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment. Skills● Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), service-oriented architecture (SOA), APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.● 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, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.● Understanding of the different types of agile principles, methodologies and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.● Understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments.● Strong leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.● Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business development.● Knowledge of all components of enterprise architecture, business and IT principles and processes.● Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.● Excellent analytical, planning and organizational skills.● Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.