Location
Full remote from Europe
When ?
To start asap - 6 months + extension
Profile
We are looking for an enterprise architect with strong experience working as a IT Strategist as well as architecture design.
We need someone with Finance experience and TOGAF certified.
Based in Europe
Very well spoken, convincing
Scope of Activities
The Enterprise Architect will demonstrate competencies across five key dimensions.
1. Supports Formulation of Strategy and Guides Execution
- Proactively identifies and helps the organization respond to disruptive forces.
- Understands the business’s economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation to effectively guide investment decisions.
- Leads 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.
- Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
- Translates and guides execution of business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an IT implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture.
- Constructs technology-enabled business and provides viable options and visibility into execution issues.
2. Builds and Maintains Relationships
- Positions the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensures that the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate and execute business strategy.
- Builds the EA value proposition, contributing to positioning the EA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.
- Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.
- Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise operating model, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment.
- Enables Value-Based Messaging and Manages Cross-Functional Relationships
- Provides consultative advice, adapted to stakeholder context, to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organization, using technology to make that change happen.
- Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise.
- Leads a collaborative community of architects and works with a strategic committee to guide transformation and resolve any conflicts IT delivery and enterprise business outcomes.
3. Orchestrates the Delivery of Business Outcomes
- Works with business architects on the analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.
- Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
- Ensures that the EA organizational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results (e.g., profitability, customer service, internal operations), and EA resources empowered and committed to the integration of business and IT.
4. Facilitates Innovation
- Assesses disruptive forces affecting the organization and identifies technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enables business strategy.
- Contextualizes trends based on technological, political, economic, social/cultural, trust/ethics, regulatory/legal, and environmental (TPESTRE) trends to enhance their strategic decision making.
- Scans emerging technologies and the business ecosystem for major disruptive technology and non technology trends (trendspotting) that affect business.
- Provides practical advice and best practices to take advantage of new, or emerging, opportunities and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.
- Details potential competitive threats from digital enterprises that are generally considered outside of your traditional realm of competition.
- Tracks and applies innovative technologies, anchoring them in the business and operating model to assess their potential, and uses agile and lean approaches to evolve and manage innovation.
- Runs pilots to create new products and services and integrate the best of these into steady-state operations for the organization.
5. Plans and Manages the IT Portfolio
- Maintains the alignment, integration and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects and products as they evolve over time.
- Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
- Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
- Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams.
- Develops and applies minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance. Clarifies accountability and provides the focal point for agile, effective and efficient decision making.
- Facilitates a collaborative relationship across architecture community, product management and product delivery teams by providing freedom-in-a-box for decision making, with the minimal viable architecture forming the boundaries of the box.
- Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market (across business, applications, data, infrastructure and security)
The enterprise architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes and capabilities.
The enterprise architect’s scope of activities include helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks and improving sustainability.
They focus on development of the IT strategy and enterprise architecture of the organization as a whole in alignment with business strategy and capabilities.
The enterprise architect must:
- Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape
- Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships
- Adapt to changing business and operating models
- Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes
- Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning
- Support various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric
- Communicate the value of enterprise architecture, and its portfolio of services
- Drive the evolution of the EA teams services and operating model
- Coach and mentor other architects, product owners/managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking
