Senior Manager Enterprise Architecture

Summary

The Enterprise Architect will be responsible for the design and implementation of the enterprise-wide business application and integration approach, ensuring the it aligns with the IT Strategy and business needs. They will apply their knowledge of good architecture practice, architecture documentation and application platform technologies to comprehensively capture GE Digitals current state application architecture and
oversee target state design and implementation. They will participate in enterprise transformation, overseeing the delivery of agreed business priority outcomes and value across major transformational programmes, act as a design authority and provide an assurance role, ensuring that all architecture activities and deliverables (in-house and outsourced) are produced to a high quality and are consistent with existing GE Digitals standards, policies and strategies.

In this role, You Will:

Improving the current application architecture, optimising business operations, and setting the direction and approach for integrating business applications.

Suggesting ideas to reduce costs and improve architecture to IT and business leadership.

Providing business and technical architecture guidance.

Producing high-quality Enterprise Architecture artefacts and supporting material.

Influencing and collaborating with others, especially business leaders, solution

architects and technical experts.

Building Executive relationships ability to discuss application architecture from an enterprise big picture perspective combined with ability to build trust, credibility and strong partnerships with business leaders.

Able to facilitate executive sessions and executive meetings

Develop quality deliverables and presentations for respective stakeholders from Executive team down.

Participates in governance forums in order to assure and approve new and changed architectural and technology solutions

Ensures that new architectures align to GE Digitals standards; create a new standard or progress a change to the standard where necessary.

Regularly and pro-actively identifies risks and issues and ensures appropriate steps to mitigate risks are in place and issues are remediated on a timely basis

Ensures that the Enterprise Architecture function operates to GE Digitals governance, risk, compliance frameworks, through fit-for-purpose processes, practices, and accountability, and that the business remains within agreed risk appetite

Ensures that Enterprise Architecture function maintains appropriate information security, resilience, business continuity and disaster recovery arrangements within the respective frameworks and standards

Cataloguing, developing, coordinating, communicating and maintaining, overall enterprise architecture models, representations, initiatives, capabilities, and components to adequately perform the organisation's business and technology activities.

Determine and implement build versus buy strategies, mentor solution architects, and create views of the overall business strategy.

Experience of providing technical leadership, working as an architect on complex projects and programmes.

Skills in designing complex architecture solutions in an inclusive manner

Excellent stakeholder engagement skills including the ability to influence others (business stakeholders, technical architects, software developers, third party suppliers), to reconcile technical and business considerations to arrive at the optimal solution.

Ability to translate business strategies into technical solutions and identify business transformation opportunities.

Enterprise Architecture skills to see the "big picture" and identify opportunities to join up systems, technologies, and business capabilities to create better economies of scale and scope.

Leading the development of complex application architectures in modern compute paradigms i.e. cloud, microservices etc.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).
• 10+ years of hands-on architecting experience in an ecosystem having Marketo, Salesforce, Flexera, Oracle CPQ, Fusion & RMCS etc. as major pillars.
• Experience with SaaS to SaaS integration and middleware such as Boomi, OIC etc.
• 5+ Years of end-to-end enterprise architecting experience, preferably in a software product company.
• 3+ years of experience in driving large enterprise level Annual Recurring Revenue based implementation from inception to execution would be a major plus.

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Self-driven and passion for technology
• Technical thought leadership
• Ability to work cross-functionally, in a fast-paced work environment.
• Able to communicate technical or complex subject matters in business terms.
• Able to work with non-collocated team members
• High attention to detail is essential