Enterprise Domain Architect

Job Description:

• Create and maintain domain architecture strategies, blueprint and roadmaps showing the evolution of systems from current to target state to meet strategic business, financial and technology objectives through documentation of systems, architectures, process flows and value-chain models.
• Participate in architecture consulting to enable design decisions, lead design sessions where appropriate, manage design tradeoffs between speed to market, financial and strategic impact, and support the successful implementation of initiatives.
• Act as a control function to ensure adherence of designs to blueprints, architectural principles and enterprise standards.
• Support the compliance of designs to all relevant local laws and regulations.
• Identify risks to quickly resolve issues and conflicting priorities and influence a positive and effective outcome.
• Leverage technical expertise to support vendor selection activities including recommendations of when to make the appropriate build vs. buy decisions.
• Support the development of prototypes and proof-of-concepts to validate designs.
• Contribute to creation and evolution of architectural patterns, principles and guidelines.
• Support the execution of the architecture governance board.
• Provide inputs to annual financial planning & other related activities.
• Providing a senior communication channel across multiple functional domains.

• Application development knowledge and experience (Enterprise Applications, distributed services, design, analysis).
• Certification or extensive experience in industry best practices in architectural methodologies and standards (e.g. UML, BPMN).
• Architecture, quality & productivity methodologies (e.g. Six Sigma).
• Modern application development and deployment (Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery).
• Broad based IT knowledge (hardware, software, middleware, databases, cloud).
• Deep Knowledge of Financial Services preferably within Markets.

• Core Skills