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Lead and Influence
- Lead the creation or evolution of the enterprise architecture program/function (if managing and appointed as chief enterprise architect).
- Promote the business value of the EA program/function and its process, and the results of the EA program to business and ICT leaders/executives.
- Lead the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business strategy and requirements.
- Seek opportunities to highlight how digital business initiatives will potentially impact enterprises' economic architecture and metrics
Identify Ecosystems and Develop Business Models
- Understand the business's economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation, so as to effectively support and guide technology investment decisions.
- Design and construct future- and current-state business models so as to practically apply new and emerging technologies to drive them.
- Detail potential competitive threats from digital enterprises that are generally considered outside of your traditional realm of competition.
Focus on Strategy and Execution
- Demonstrate the business value of EA as an enabler of strategy formulation, and as support for technology innovation, which drives the organization's top and bottom lines.
- 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.
Research and Understand Technology and Nontechnology Trends
- Scan the world for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business. Provide practical advice and best practices to overcome these challenges and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.
- Contextualize the technology trends based on social, economic, political and other nontechnology trends.
- Lead the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise's business strategy, direction and architecture.
Enable Enterprise Ideation and Innovation
- Track and apply innovative and existing technologies, anchoring them in the business model to assess their potential, and use rapid prototyping approaches to evolve innovations.
- Run technology experiments, helping to create new products and services and integrating the best of theses into steady-state operations for the organization.
- Determine and Help Orchestrate the Delivery of Business Outcomes
- Guide and advise stakeholders about disruptive technologies and trends.
- 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) ICT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement and driving the business forward.
- Work with business peers and lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business outcomes and drivers to derive useful business context, and in response to disruptive
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- Develop diagnostic and actionable deliverables that help business guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy.
- Lead analysis of the ICT 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 ICT investment roadmap that reflects the status of the existing ICT 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 ICT 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.
Qualifications & Experience
- Master's or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
- At least 12 years of experience in an ICT-related field.
- 7 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
- 5 or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis
Preferred:
- 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, ICT services management, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ICTIL frameworks
- Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven ICT and predictive analytics
- Exposure and understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments
- 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
- Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture
- Knowledge of business engineering principles and processes
- Familiarity with basic graphical modelling approaches, tools and model repositories
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