Business Enterprise Architect

05 Dec 2024

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Position: Business Enterprise Architect

Location: Wayne, PA

Duration: Fulltime

Description:

Essentials:
  • Over 10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture preferably in the financial industry, expert in Enterprise Architecture.
  • University level Education (MSc).
  • Excellent communication in speech and writing in English.
  • Proven affinity with digital business models.
  • Certified for TOGAF © and ArchiMate ©.
  • Broad understanding of strategy and architecture modelling standards.
  • Thorough understanding of financial industry business models.
  • Understanding of Governance Models such as COBIT.
  • Experience in business and IT strategy development.
  • Ability to work from home remotely/independently and in a virtual team environment

Day to day:
  • Participate in the analysis, evaluation, and development of enterprise long-term strategic and operating planning to ensure that the Enterprise Architecture objectives are consistent with the enterprise’s long-term business objectives.
  • Lead Pressure Cooker sessions (Blueprint workshops) with Executive and Senior Business and IT management. In these collaborative sessions you do a health check on the IT landscape, analyze the business strategy, and assess the strategic investment portfolio with the objective to ensure that business & technology investments will provide the maximum value for the business today and into the foreseeable future. Create and maintain the Future State Architecture on Enterprise Level (the Enterprise Blueprint) in alignment with the Blueprints made on Delivery Team level in business and technology domains.
  • Lead and facilitate Trend Analysis by analyzing Market Developments and by organizing workshop with business and IT stakeholders to discover potential disruptors in the Technology Market that may impact the Client business model.
  • Sponsor and facilitate so called Incubators, innovative projects to proof the impact of these disruptors in terms of opportunities or threads.
  • Motivate, inspire, and facilitate a functional team of Architects securing architecture alignment in investment portfolios and program roadmaps. The Architects report into IT Delivery Teams in other parts of the organization globally each having its own maturity, evolution speed, business priority and baseline IT landscape.
  • Execute architecture governance by enforcing the architecture process in the organization and chairing governance meetings with Lead Architects to make and capture decisions made regarding architecture.
  • Govern the architecture repository, owned by the Lead Architects, to ensure the architecture meets the Client ArchiMate Standards and actively coach Lead and Solution Architects on the use of ArchiMate.
  • Ensure that the respective business, application, information, and technology perspectives are in line with the organization’s technology and governance strategies, policies, and standards.
  • Set Architecture Standards that clearly define the architecture framework for the Lead Architects in the Delivery Teams to achieve re-use, economies of scale and compliance. Actively communicate these standards and continuously improve them to meet market best practice and customer needs.
  • Own the Enterprise Architecture Backlog including the exceptions made to the Architecture Standards and ensure timely review and follow up is done by business and IT management.
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  • ID: #23901189
  • State: Pennsylvania Wayne 19080 Wayne USA
  • City: Wayne
  • Salary: $160,000 - $180,000
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2021-12-05
  • Deadline: 2022-01-31
  • Category: Et cetera