Chief Technologist

29 Nov 2024

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Job: SC19231CHIEF TECHNOLOGISTLocation: Houston, TXType: Permanent

RESPONSIBILITIESThe Chief Technologist will demonstrate competencies:
  • Lead the creation and evolution of the enterprise-wide architecture program
  • Lead the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business strategy and requirements
  • Demonstrate the business value of architecture as an enabler of strategy formulation, and as support for technology innovation, which drives the organization's top and bottom lines.
  • Formulate, translate, advocate, support and execute business strategy to achieve the organization's targeted business outcomes.
  • Scan the world for major disruptive technology and non-technology trends (trend spotting) that affect business. Provide practical advice and best practices to overcome these challenges and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.
  • Lead the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise's business strategy, direction and architecture.
  • Define architecture blue books and technology roadmaps
  • Track and apply innovative and existing technologies, anchoring them in the business model to assess their potential, and use rapid prototyping approaches to evolve innovations.
  • Run technology experiments, helping to create new products and services and integrating the best of theses into steady-state operations for the organization.
  • Guide and advise stakeholders about disruptive technologies and trends.
  • Ensure technology roadmaps across applications, infrastructure, middleware and other aspects of technology are evolving in sync with each other
  • Work with business peers to develop and present business capability models and roadmaps to facilitate discussion and decision making with stakeholders across the enterprise.
  • Lead analysis of the business' future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement and driving the business forward.
  • Lead analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
  • Present a gap analysis and/or IT investment roadmap that reflects the status of the existing IT estate, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
  • Lead the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and IT strategies.
  • Lead and facilitate the creation of governance, assurance and standards to guide enterprise architecture decision making.
  • Oversee the evaluation and selection of architecture standards, as necessary.
  • Consult with infrastructure, project and product teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.

EXPERIENCE
  • Ability to assess current technology environment across multiple businesses and affect change
  • Proven ability to innovate and consult to drive the organization's digital business strategies
  • Effective at driving short-term actions that are consistent with long-term goals
  • Influential in the organization and a team player

QUALIFICATIONS
  • 7 or more years of experience, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, or infrastructure, in a multi-tier environment
  • 5 or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis
  • Experienced with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks
  • Knowledge of SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics
  • Knowledge of business engineering principles and processes
  • Exposure and understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments
  • Excellent analytical and technical skills
  • Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills

  • ID: #23625344
  • State: Texas Houston 77001 Houston USA
  • City: Houston
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2021-11-29
  • Deadline: 2022-01-27
  • Category: Et cetera