Enterprise Architect

We are currently looking for an Enterprise Architect to join our growing team in one of the biggest European organizations.

Tasks

• Establishes processes for enterprise architecture developments and management
• Supports programmes and projects in planning and controlling (especially regarding risk management), harmonizing, change management and assures architectural compliancy
• Consult and contributes to development of architectural capabilities of the organization and the architecture management initiatives
• Designs and communicates enterprise architecture
• Designs and maintains architectural repository
• Design interoperability and interfaces between systems
• Elicits needs, analyses requirements
• Transfers business, users and technical needs into architectures
• Maps business goals, project benefits, priorities, components, system features
• Defines transition roadmaps for architectures
• Prepares system documentation and provides presentations
• Collects and interprets system metrics
• Provides assistance to projects which implement the elements of enterprise architecture
• Assesses architecture maturity
• Analyses organisational structures
• Analyses information systems portfolio
• Analyses business processes
• Conducts IS costs/benefits analysis

Who you are

• Master's Degree plus minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience
• Minimum 5 years o experience at similar position
• Minimum English language skills (CEFR) : C1
• Required certificates (At least 1 certification among):
• The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA)
• Zachman Certified – Enterprise Architect
• CISSP Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (CISSP-ISSAP)
• ITIL v3 Master certification or equivalent
• Certification of Capability in Business Analysis™ (CCBA)

Knowledge

• Has performed role of Enterprise architect in organization.
• Has hands-on experience in building EA culture and practices throughout the organization.
• Expert in enterprise and business architecture design.
• Familiar with business process development, value streams and capability maps design.
• Good knowledge of enterprise architecture domains.
• Good knowledge about maturity models analyses and frameworks
• Proficient in using systems modeling tools like Sparx Enterprise Architect, Aris Architect or others
• Familiar with market wide designing architecture standards or frameworks such as, TOGAF, Zachman, Azure Well-Architected framework or similar.
• Expert knowledge in computer science and IT to research IT solutions and identify ways to enhance existing operations

Skills

• Efficiency in time management, project management and demonstrative of the company's service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Holds ability to document effectively
• Presents problem solving skills
• Strong capacity in writing and presenting studies, business cases, visions, analytical models
• Presents leadership skills
• Capability of working in an international / multicultural environment
• Skills in developing standards and policies that guide the use of IT assets
• Excellent communication skills for educating employees on best practices for applying the company's IT products, resources and solutions
• Ability to scrutinise the domains of the enterprise's structure to improve operations and align the business and technology to be transparent
• Ability to analyse data and information generated by the enterprise and operational labour structure to identify cost-saving opportunities

Specific requirements

• Experience in the governance of architecture function