Enterprise Architect

Description of the Tasks

Following tasks will be performed by the external service provider:

• Create business architecture models that reflect the organization’s strategies and goals.

• Integrate the project and program strategies and ensure alignment with business strategies and drivers, and management priorities.

• Create and implement a business vision and multi-year plan.

• Support the rationalization of IT systems.

• Support management of corporate governance processes.

• Support the development and operation of project, program, and portfolio management frameworks.

• Coordinate the EPMO function and provide effective leadership to analysts or architects under his/her coordination.

• Coordinate and contribute to briefing production in the digital transformation area.

• Coordinate contributions to corporate requests in the EA and EPMO area.

• Contribute to the delivery of Digital Transformation strategy for DG GROW.

• Contribute to the DRPM processes of GROW.B3.

• Contribute to the application of the principles of the new EC Digital Strategy in DG GROW.

• Conduct costs/benefit analysis.

• Conduct As-Is and To-be situation analysis and gap analysis.

• Prepare and moderate meetings with different levels of stakeholders.

• Provide business architecture and systems processing guidance.

• Conduct research to find ways to improve processes in the organization.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Enterprise architecture frameworks, notations and tools.

• Project, program and portfolio management (strong).

• Digital Governance.

• Information systems lifecycle (strong).

• Software development process (strong).

• Service and operations management.

Skills:

• Ability to follow and interpret internal corporate procedures and standards.

• Ability to combine many different skills and experiences to address and solve business, information, and technology related opportunities and problems.

• Extensive experience with enterprise and application architecture best practices and goals.

• Extensive experience with managing corporate governance processes.

• Excellent leadership and conciliation skills.

• Communications skills, both verbal (e.g.: presentations, seminars, etc.), and written (e.g.: reports, articles, etc.).

• Group session facilitation.

• Analysis and design.

• Modelling and graphical representations and abstractions.

Specific Expertise:

• Minimum 13 years of IT professional experience.

• Minimum 13 years of project, program and portfolio management methodologies (e.g. Prince2, PMI, PM2, MSP, MOP, etc).

• Minimum 10 years of experience in software development methodology (e.g. RUP, AGILE).

• Minimum 8 years of project management tools (e.g. MS-Project, JIRA).

• Minimum 8 years of experience in IT Governance.

• Experience contributing and coordinating briefings in the digital area.

• Experience with managing corporate governance processes.

• Some experience with Enterprise Architecture modelling (e.g. BPMN, UML).

• Experience in cost/benefit analysis or in As-is/To-be/Gap analysis.

• Experience in team coordination.

• Experience in consulting.

• Experience in managing stakeholders and business representatives.

• Experience in the realization of studies.