Enterprise Architect

Job Responsibilities

• Leads the creation and/or evolution of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) function/program, including coordination of an appropriately balanced pursuit of enterprise business, information, technical and solution architectures.
• Understands, advocates and augments the principles of IT strategies.
• Leads the identification and development of enterprise technology innovation initiatives.
• Leads the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solutions architecture requirements.
• Analyzes the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommends solutions for improvement.
• Analyzes technology industry and market trends and determines the potential impact on the enterprise.
• Leads and develops partnership with Business Relations team in the creation of business capability roadmaps.
• “Sells” the architecture process, its outcome, and ongoing results to the organization and its IT and business leaders.
• Leads/facilitates the creation of principles to guide technology decisions for the enterprise.
• Designs and leads the implementation plan of the EA based on business requirements and IT strategies.
• Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring compliance with EA.
• Oversees enterprise architecture implementation and modification activities.
• Oversees the evaluation and selection of hardware and software product standards and the design of standard configurations.
• Consults with application development projects to fit systems to architecture and identifies when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate project needs.
• Consults with infrastructure development projects to fit infrastructure to architecture and identifies when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate infrastructure needs.
• Identifies the organizational (skills, processes, structures, and culture) and financial impact of EA.
• Oversees the documentation of all architecture design and analysis work.
• Leads development and execution of a communication (including education) plan for EA.
• Assesses and communicates the achievement and impact of EA.
• Develops IT strategies.