Enterprise Architect

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

• Is proficient in using systems modelling 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)

• Strong capacity in writing and presenting studies, business cases, visions, analytical models

• 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-savings opportunities

Specific requirements:

• Experience in the governance of architecture function

Required Certificates:

1. At least 1 certification among:

2. The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) or equivalent

3. Zachman Certified – Enterprise Architect or equivalent

4. CISSP Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (CISSIP-ISSAP) or equivalent

5. ITIL v3 Master certification or equivalent

6. Certification of Capability in Business Analysis™ (CCBA) or equivalent

Typical Tasks and Responsibilities:

- 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 as 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