VPBANK 3.8 ★

JOB DESCRIPTION

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.

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.

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 to 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.

• 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 EA decision making.

• Ensure that the optimal governance structure and compliance activities are associated with EA compliance.

• Oversee the evaluation and selection of EA standards, as necessary.

• Oversee EA implementation and ongoing refinement activities.

• Oversee EA implementation, continuous improvement and ongoing refinement activities.

• Oversee the documentation of all architecture design and analysis work.

• 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.

• Identify organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.

• Oversee the documentation of all architecture design and analysis work.

• Lead the development and execution of a communication and education plan for the enterprise architecture.

• Communicate the value of the enterprise architecture to the organization.

• Lead the development and execution of a communication and education plan for the enterprise architecture

REQUIREMENTS

Educational Qualifications

Master's or Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience

Relevant 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

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 in 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

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