Enterprise Business Architect

Business Enterprise Architect

UK or Ireland Based

12 Month Contract

Required skills:

* Demonstrable experience of leading complex enterprise architecture solutions
* Senior level IT leadership, gained in a complex global organisation
* Fluent in English, written and spoken

Key responsibilities & duties include:

* Provide architecture expertise to drive the enterprise domain architecture vision and direction
* Provide direction to enterprise and solution architects to help ensure best in class solutions minimising customisation; seeking alignment with the business and leveraging the support of our customer's resources
* Ensure consistency of the enterprise architecture through breadth (and where necessary depth) of knowledge. Identification of opportunities for strategic business, information and technology change
* Partner with enterprise and solution architects to ensure adherence to architectural principles, standards, best practice and roadmaps
* Act as the bridge between Business Enterprise Architecture, Business Capabilities/Cloud & Platforms & Delivery/Product managers to ensure business, information and technology architecture are consistent
* Identify cross portfolio dependencies and issues and act to resolve them
* Co-ordinate activity to help deliver transformational change through the major overhaul of architectural domains, applications and services in line with the company
* Support with major transformational change projects across the company, influencing to ensure the right enterprise architecture solutions
* Collaborate through a trusted business partnering approach, proactively leveraging key relationships to ensure business, information and technology enterprise architecture is strategically aligned
* Ensure project/product designs are consistent with the architecture and meet both functional and non-functional requirements. Drive resolution of architecture issues throughout the project or product lifecycle
* Build key supplier relationships, where third-party work or packages involve significant architectural design decisions
* Provide leadership and coaching to other architects
* Deliver across a number of business/technical domains and value-streams, the breadth and complexity of which will vary depending on experience