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- Enterprise Architecture in large-scale complex organizations, encompassing data, applications (ideally including CRM or ERP), integrations and infrastructure
- Confidently and effectively managing strategic 3rd party/vendor relationships and contracts
- Strong understanding of technologies including cloud (such as AWS and/or Azure)
- Experience of Enterprise Architecture tools
- Building and maintaining strong working relationships with a range of stakeholders
- Establishing understanding of business direction and building trust as a strategic advisor
- Demonstrable experience of analyzing, designing, planning and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies
- Developing and Enterprise Architecture framework.
- Ensuring relationship between Enterprise Architecture and the catalogue of Enterprise Services is established and maintained.
- Enterprise Architectural Planning to help structure IT projects and policies to achieve desired business result
- Providing technical governance through a team of Solution Architectures.
- Upholding Information Security and Privacy requirements
- Data Management governance; effective control of master data and shared data
- Translating business objectives into multiple business process and technology and options with varying commercial models.
- Ability to prioritize work in a busy environment, contributing to multiple, often disparate projects concurrently
- Commercial mindedness, ideally with experience of providing Enterprise Architecture out to businesses via consultancy or in a centralized function within group
- Formal experience and ideally certification with a leading EAP methodology such as TOGAF, Open CA or Zachman
- IT Value Strategy: shaping the direction of IT to align the overall shareholder and business vision and objectives and drive measurable improvements
- Technology Innovation and Eco-systems: exploring new and emerging technologies to create a vision of how technology will shape the future and invent the next wave of cutting-edge business solutions
- Operating Model: shaping how the IT will need to operate to achieve IT and stakeholder objectives and workforce talent strategy
- in one or more of the following required:
- Agile strategy, Agile transformation, Agile operating model
- DevOps design experience, CI/CD, Product Based Operating Model and Org Design
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
- Excellent leadership and management skills
- Passion for excellence and delivering business value
- Experience leading or managing small teams effectively and planning/structuring analytical work
- Broad, diverse experience and knowledge of major technologies (legacy to emerging)
- Design technology strategy and planning workshops based on business objectives and stakeholder analysis including adopting appropriate approach/methods, facilitation techniques, pre-work, artifacts and deliverables
- Lead a multi-disciplinary cross functional team in the planning and execution of technology strategy and planning workshops
- Drive IT transformation efforts; own/shape the move toward an agile, product based operating model
- Partner with business functions to identify new opportunities including process and/or value chain analysis, business service model, business canvas, process and solution enablement plan
- Scout emerging technologies and define new opportunities that can add business value
- Defines appropriate processes and manages compliance to ensure corporate delivery quality at product/platform/program level (e. g. requirements management, risk management, change management, issue management, resource management, project accounting etc.)
- Executes a governance process to provide corporate executive leadership with visibility into program performance and decision-making ability
- Bachelor s degree in a related field (i. e., Business, Computer Science or Information Systems) from an accredited college/university or equivalent work experience
- Minimum ten years in IT roles spanning strategy, architecture (business, data, digital, information systems, infrastructure) and/or delivery functions driving digital transformation and data strategy leveraging emerging technologies and cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google)
- Minimum 5 years of experience in at least 2 of the example offerings (IT Value Strategy, Technology Innovation and Ecosystems, IT Operating Model, Enterprise Architecture Strategy)
- Minimum 5 years of experience writing business cases (quantitative and qualitative) to support strategic business initiatives, process improvement initiatives, or IT transformation recommendations
- Ability to lead the planning, organizing and facilitation of executive-level strategic or IT planning workshops and ability to orchestrate emerging technologies to client services and solutions on cloud platform
- Excellent interpersonal skills especially in areas of teamwork, facilitation, influence, and negotiation