Chief Enterprise Architect

Key Responsibilities

Solution Planning and Design

• Working with the various specialist business units to ensure robust architectures from end to end.
• Working with a variety of Architects to develop an appropriate technical solution to meet the respective client requirements.
• Lead the architecture community on the account and ensure quality of deliverables, robustness of design, a clinical deployment and clear communications to the client and the teams
• Ensure all scheduled changes are accurate and architecturally sound
• Ensure all development pipelines are adhering to the architecture of the systems
• Ensure appropriate reviews are done across the account with respect to architecture ensuring fit for purpose, strategic fit, requirements alignment is maintained
• Ensure all solutions and architectures are scalable and take into account expansion, growth and peak processing periods.

Opportunity and Requirements Analysis

• Works with the client’s IT, business, C suite and architects to gather requirements to develop an accurate requirements (business, functional, non-functional, compliance, government, foreign, technical, and issue related needs) model with respective traceability matrices.
• Identifies related requirements associated with lead generation, and opportunity expansion.
• Understands the market, industry, and technology trends so that they may be injected in to the requirements model and design process.

Client Relationship

• Builds strong professional relationship with key IT and business executives within the client.
• Understands clearly the direction and strategy of the client as set by the CxO level.
• Consults to the client in the generation of the account strategic plan, the end to end business systems architecture, innovation opportunities and proposals of additional project work.
• Establishes customer trusted advisor status with the client.
• Effectively communicates and articulates the account strategy and architecture

Account Team Collaboration

• Actively participates with the account team in account and opportunity planning.
• Provides solution advice, drives proposals, presentations, and other customer communications during any client pursuit.
• Runs the architecture practice for the account and therefore is an integral part of the account team.
• Report to the account from a business operations point of view.
• Understands the accounts technical needs and proactively engages other teams and resources within company and partners.
• Applies technical skills to identifying overlooked opportunities within the account.
• Facilitates a smooth technical transition via presales, sales, implementation and run and maintain.
• Provides technical governance and ownership on incidents.
• Works with the account team to identify efficiencies and then to drive them removing cost, risk, bottlenecks, et al.

Key Competencies and Skills

Education And Qualifications

• Relevant Bachelor degree is required.
• 15 to 20 year’s-experience in relevant hands on technology (infrastructure, applications, cloud, security), solutioning design, architecture practices and design, and technical consultative techniques.
• Relevant certificates and/or experience

Technical and Solution Acumen

• Demonstrates a broad knowledge of all aspects of IT and has in depth expertise in some areas of IT
• Understand modern architectural design practices and business domains of change
• Applies broad understanding of technical innovations & trends to solving customer business problems.
• Demonstrated ability to establish architectural thought leadership on a large complex account.
• Demonstrated ability to work as the lead architect on large complex projects, architectures and accounts.
• Ability to seamlessly understand the client's business, products & services, roadmaps and strategy.

• Strong knowledge in AWS, Angular, Node Js, J2EE, .Net, Mobility etc

Business Acumen

• Creates solutions that creatively address customer value chain and business requirements.
• Persuasively communicates the value of the solution in terms of business benefits, positive financial return, and achievement of customer goals
• Appropriately tailors communications to varying levels of customer management.

Industry Acumen

• Demonstrable Industry acumen in at least 2 Industries - starting with Banking and Government sectors.