Senior Enterprise Architect - Genuine Digital Transformation

The Enterprise Architect (EA) plays a critical role in aligning business strategy with technical solutions across different organisational levels.

The EA's scope of activities includes helping the organisation grow revenue, optimising costs and mitigating risks. They will focus on understanding and applying existing, new and emerging technologies to transform and optimise business and operating models. The EA's focus is to help the organisation plan, design, innovate and operationalise the digital enterprise.

They will be responsible for helping business leaders enable their future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive the organisation's targeted business outcomes through the choice of initiatives the organisation chooses to invest in.

Additionally, the EA will lead the architecture practice as an internal consultancy, developing the architecture team and integrating architecture processes with business and IT functions. They guide the organisation in planning, designing, and operationalising digital strategies, while fostering a creative and supportive environment for the team.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the Architecture Project team - Foundation, Data, Solution, Security and Infrastructure.
• Take ownership and be accountable for the design, governance, implementation and adoption of technology architecture elements within the high profile Transformation programme.
• Collaborate and facilitate alignment of key stakeholders (Internal and external), ensuring the function aligns with best practices whilst being scalable and secure
• Work closely with colleagues in all Group locations, entities and the clients Network to enable and realise benefits of the new systems.
• Ensuring synergies, efficiencies, and consistency across the Group for the benefit of the customer.

The Enterprise Architect leads and coordinates all aspects of the EA practice, including:

• Business Architecture: Focused on guiding people, process and organizational change
• Information Architecture: Focused on the consistent sharing of information across the enterprise
• Solutions Architecture: Focused on developing a direction for managing the portfolio of to-be solutions
• Technical Architecture: Focused on evolving the technical infrastructure
• Security Architecture: Focused on managing IT risk through the exchange of information between people, systems and things inside and outside the organization.

Competencies

• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management.
• 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.
• Balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions and organisation goals.
• Translate business needs into EA requirements.
• Estimate the financial impact of EA alternatives.
• Apply multiple solutions to business problems.
• Rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Capable and comfortable with balancing time between foundational EA (Mode 1: renovating the core of the IT estate, ensuring efficiency and predictability) and vanguard EA efforts (Mode 2: concerned with business and operating model design, technology innovation, speed, agility and flexibility to achieve a unified and flexible EA that meets the organisation's needs).
• Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organisation's digital business strategies.

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