RESPONSIBILITIES

A. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Delivering Future-Ready Recommendations: Providing strategic guidance to business leaders for future adjustments, such as recommending the integration of artificial intelligence to enhance customer service and operational efficiency.
• Managing EA Program Components for Future Growth: Overseeing business architecture to drive transformative process improvements, information architecture to support advanced data analytics, solutions architecture to innovate technology portfolios, technical architecture to adopt cutting-edge infrastructure, and security architecture to anticipate and mitigate emerging IT risks. For example, leading the initiative to transition to cloud-based platforms to ensure scalability and agility.
• Facilitating Strategic Information Sharing: Ensuring seamless communication and data exchange across the enterprise to support future innovation, work with EDA’s data architects to develop a forward-looking data governance framework that leverages real-time data insights to drive strategic decisions.

B. MAJOR ACTIVITIES

1. Lead and Influence:

• Lead the creation or evolution of the enterprise architecture program/function.
• Lead the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business strategy and requirements.

2. Focus on Strategy and Execution:

• Formulate, translate, advocate, support and execute business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes.
• Construct technology-enabled operating models and provide viable options and visibility into execution issues.

3. Determine and Help Orchestrate the Delivery of Business Outcomes:

• Determine the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and things of the enterprise, and their relationships with one another and to the external environment.
• 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.
• Provide perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate.
• 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.

4. Lead Analysis and Governance:

• Lead analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Lead and facilitate the creation of governance assurance and standards to guide EA decision-making.

5. Oversee Implementation and Communication:

• Oversee the documentation of all architecture design and analysis work.
• Lead the development and execution of a communication and education plan for enterprise architecture.

REQUIREMENTS

1. Educational Qualifications & Relevant Experience:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
• Seven or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.
• Five or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business.

2. Relevant Knowledge/ Expertise:

• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management.
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Capable and comfortable with balancing time between foundational EA (Mode 1: ensures efficiency and predictability) and vanguard EA efforts (Mode 2: concerned with speed, agility and flexibility to achieve a unified and flexible EA that meets the organization’s needs).
• Exposure and understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments.
  Vendor- and technology-neutral — more interested in business outcomes than in personal, or those business and IT leaders with vested personal preferences.
• Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.
• Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization’s digital business strategies.
• Understand and speak the language of the business.
• Influential in the organization and a team player.
• Effective at driving short-term actions that are consistent with long-term goals.
• Practical approach to decision making and problem solving that is principle-based.
• Ability to balance the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions.
• Ability to translate business needs into EA requirements.
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of EA alternatives.
• Ability to apply multiple solutions to business problems.
• Ability to rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture.
• Knowledge of business engineering principles and processes.

3. Skills:

• Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Excellent analytical and technical skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.