Enterprise Architect Consultant

Job Description

You would be expected to: Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships Adapt to changing business and operating models Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning Support various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric Communicate the value of enterprise architecture, and its portfolio of services Drive the evolution of the EA teams services and operating model Scope of Activities: As an Enterprise Architect, you will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions: Support Formulation of Strategy and Guide Execution Work with business and leadership stakeholders to develop strategy Analyse business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprises business strategy, direction, and architecture. Provide perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate through scenario planning techniques, and supports formulation of business strategy. Uses planning-driven, design-driven and learning-driven approaches to construct future- and current-state business models. Connects Strategy to Execution Facilitate business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization's digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth. Translate and guide execution of business strategy to achieve the organization's targeted business outcomes. Construct technology-enabled business and operating models and provides viable options and visibility into execution issues. Build and Maintain Relationships Build the EA value proposition and structure business engagement Build the EA value proposition, contributing to positioning the EA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy. Determine the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise operating model. Enable value-based messaging and manage cross-functional relationships Provide consultative advice, adapted to stakeholder context, to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organization, using technology to make that change happen. Facilitate interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise. Orchestrate the Delivery of Business Outcomes Develop the business architecture Position the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensure that the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate and execute business strategy. Work with business architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context. Bring alignment across business and IT Analyse the business future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes. Identify organizational requirements for the resources, structure and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture. Work with the IT leaders to find the right EA organizational design to drive business-outcomes. Support Solution Design and Delivery Support portfolio modernization and develop roadmaps Maintain the alignment, integration and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects and products as they evolve over time. Present gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms. Analyse the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. Develop an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams. Support solution design and delivery Develop and apply minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance. Facilitate a collaborative relationship across architecture community, product management and product delivery teams by providing freedom-in-a-box for decision making, with the minimal viable architecture forming the boundaries of the box. Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market. Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture. Your experience counts! 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. 4 or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant. 4 or more years of experience in at least two disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment. Technical Skills: Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, data and predictive analytics. Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks. Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks. Understanding of various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric and also different types of agile principles, methodologies and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level. Awareness of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments. Effective soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork and facilitation. Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications and stakeholder management. Understanding of all components of enterprise architecture, business & IT principles and processes. Industry Experience: Experience in one of more telco value chains (Concept to Market, Lead to Order, Order to Cash, Trouble to Resolve) across B2C and B2B Understanding on various BSS modules and Telco Journeys such as Lead/Opportunity management, CRM, Order Management, CPQ, Billing, Mediation, Provisioning, Collections, Channels, Customer Care, etc. Knowledge of telecom products across wireline, wireless and Enterprise domains eTOM , TM Forum Open API certifications are highly desirable Experience of working on digital transformation projects in Strategy, innovation and digital initiatives across Digital Maturity models, CSPs Operating model, Innovation Barometers, Intelligent operations for CSPs and other related areas