Enterprise Architect I

• At Five9, IT Enterprise Architecture is viewed as critical to connecting our growth strategy and stakeholder experience with the business operating models and technology required to deliver on that promise.
• You will enable business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization.
• You should be a team player with the right combination of tactical and strategic execution. You bring deep experience defining and implementing Architecture practice as an essential capability for strategic decision making in a fast-paced environment.
• You leverage high analytical, collaboration and influencing skills to work with all levels of management and their teams to help shape Five9 s next generation. You are both an influencer and a hands-on contributor.

Responsibilities

• Understands business vision, develops and evangelizes evergreen multi-year architecture / technology roadmaps
• Creates systems and technology architecture models that reflect project solutions and technology lifecycle
• Manage the current state architecture artifacts apps, tools, data, capabilities, integrations, etc.
• Facilitate update for the future state architecture artifacts and relationships working with other IT teams that own and support it
• Promotes overall direction, guidance, and definition of IT Enterprise Architecture per the roadmap
• Supports all architectural disciplines and partners with delivery teams to champion various architectural initiatives.
• Steward the necessary administration, configuration and effective usage of LeanIX as an EA repository in order to ensure quality data management and publishing to various stakeholders
• Works with LeanIX solution vendor to delivery new feature/ functionality to improve adoption of information across IT and relevant business users
• Facilitate the IT Enterprise Architecture governance through Architecture Review Board (ARB)
• Defines, explains, and advocates technology data and lifecycle working with IT Delivery team and App Owners
• Promotes the Enterprise Architecture process, outcomes, and results to the organization and IT leadership
• Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture guidelines and policies as continuous improvement
• Collaborates with project management and delivery leads to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements

Position Requirements

• 2 or more years of IT and business/industry work experience including IT architecture principles, systems design and deployment and technology lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture - business processes, application/ systems design and integration, data/ information architecture and technology/ infrastructure overview
• Prefer at least 1 year experience with an Architecture tool e.g. LeanIX solution in the capacity of administration, meta-model configuration, survey setup, reporting, diagramming and content publishing capability
• Self-motivated, energetic, excellent interpersonal, organizational, conflict-resolution skills
• Experience presenting to various technology teams and their leadership
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking and analytical skills
• High degree of flexibility, independence, initiative, and detail orientation
• Ability to present complex ideas in easy-to-understand language