Enterprise Architect

Description

You will join a growing team at one of the largest organisations in Europe.

The group runs demanding IT programmes for big organisations and covers software development, business intelligence and infrastructure services.

The group has 13 entities in 6 countries and over 1750 consultants.

Each entity works on its own terms but sits within one group structure, so the company can react quickly to market changes and client requests with few approval layers.

Delivery follows RUP and Scrum.

The Greek entity, set up in 2016, serves the European market with software development across the full lifecycle, from user requirements and process redesign through development and testing to maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Set up processes for developing and managing enterprise architecture.
• Help programmes and projects with planning and control, especially risk management, alignment and change management, and make sure they follow the architecture.
• Advise on and help build the organisation's architecture capabilities and its architecture management initiatives.
• Design and communicate the enterprise architecture.
• Design and maintain the architecture repository.
• Design interoperability and interfaces between systems.
• Gather needs and analyse requirements from the business, users and technical teams, then turn them into architectures.
• Map business goals, project benefits, priorities, components and system features.
• Define transition roadmaps for architectures.
• Write system documentation and give presentations.
• Collect and interpret system metrics.
• Support projects that implement enterprise architecture elements.
• Assess architecture maturity.
• Analyse organisational structures, the information systems portfolio and business processes.
• Run cost and benefit analyses of information systems.

Requirements

• A Master's degree and at least 8 years of relevant professional experience.
• At least 5 years in a similar position.
• English at CEFR C1 level or higher.
• At least one of the following certifications: 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, or Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA).
• You have worked as an Enterprise Architect in an organisation.
• You have built enterprise architecture culture and practices across an organisation in hands-on work.
• You have deep expertise in enterprise and business architecture design.
• You know how to develop business processes and design value streams and capability maps.
• You have a good grasp of the enterprise architecture domains.
• You know maturity models and the frameworks used to analyse them well.
• You can work with systems modelling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, Aris Architect or similar.
• You know architecture standards and frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, the Azure Well-Architected Framework or similar.
• You have strong computer science and IT knowledge to research IT solutions and find ways to improve existing operations.
• You manage your time and projects well and understand service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• You document clearly.
• You solve problems effectively.
• You write and present studies, business cases, visions and analytical models well.
• You show leadership.
• You work well in an international, multicultural setting.
• You can develop standards and policies that guide the use of IT assets.
• You communicate well enough to teach staff best practices for using the company's IT products, resources and solutions.
• You can examine the parts of the enterprise structure, improve operations and align business with technology so it is transparent.
• You can analyse data and information from the enterprise and its operational structure to find cost savings.
• You have experience governing an architecture function.