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The primary responsibilities of the Lead Enterprise Architect:
Job Summary:
The Lead Enterprise Architect is responsible for leading and managing the Enterprise Architecture team in setting the strategy, roadmap and providing oversight and guidance to teams and vendors deploying different solutions, and to drive the successful achievement of an enterprise wide or project specific enterprise architecture tasks within the customer’s environment.
Managerial Responsibilities:
• Development of the team’s strategy, goals, initiatives, and plans, and monitor their execution.
• Manage day-to-day activities, recommend potential improvements, and ensure proper documentation and implementation of Enterprise Architecture best practices.
• Assist in the development of the annual budget, including all financial and staff requirements for the team.
• Monitor the performance of the team, compare them to the established objectives and goals and report results accordingly.
• Provide coaching, guidance, and support to employees in the execution of their work and ensure proper knowledge transfer to develop them and improve their performance.
Functional Responsibilities:
• Lead the team in the analysis of the clients’ current IT, Network & Security and Applications specifics to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Review and authorize Enterprise Architecture roadmap, based on the organizations’ strategy, to rectify gaps and pain points within the current state.
• Ability to assist in fulfilling Enterprise Architecture governance duties, attending Architecture Review Board meetings, participating in Design Authorities of key enterprise initiatives, etc.
• Lead the creation, and maintenance of structures such as enterprise and business architectures, including the interpretation of business goals and drivers; the translation of business strategy and objectives into an “operating model”; the strategic assessment of current capabilities; the identification of required changes in capabilities; and the description of inter-relationships between people, organization, service, process, data, information, technology, and the external environment.
• Understand the clients’ business strategy and develop IT strategies and architecture for significant areas of their business.
• Build a framework of principles to ensure Architecture uniformity across the business.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
• Maintain appropriate Enterprise Architecture artefacts including Entity Relationship Models, Information system dictionary, taxonomy to aid information traceability.
• Provide coaching and technical expertise for change initiatives, working with enterprise architects, solution architects, and business division owners.
• Be a key stakeholder and advisor in all new strategic Information system initiatives and ensure alignment to the enterprise-wide Information system strategy.
• Manage holistic roadmap of architecture change initiatives across the customer’s IT Landscape, coordinating requirements across different initiatives.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Academic & Professional Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or IT equivalent degree.
Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in IT Managed Services, Enterprise Applications, Infrastructure, Network & security, or similar field.
- TOGAF Certified or equivalent.
- 5+ years in a managerial role.
Skills and Requirements:
- Strong leadership and people management skills, with a focus on building a culture of collaboration and development.
- Expert technical knowledge and expertise in IT managed services to effectively understand and communicate the value proposition of the company’s solutions to clients.
- Expert understanding of enterprise technologies including Data Centres (Tier-III), networks, enterprise storage, server technologies, enterprise applications, security, and enterprise management systems.
- Ability to build and manage relationships with key stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communications skills