Manager - Enterprise Architect

Job Purpose

The enterprise architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners, and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The enterprise architect’s scope of activities includes helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving sustainability. They focus on the development of the business and IT strategy and the enterprise architecture of the organization as a whole.

Principal Accountabilities

1. Facilitates 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                                                                                                                 
2. Translates and guides execution of business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture                                                                                                               
3. Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends, and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s business strategy, direction, and architecture                                                                                                            
4. Leads analysis of the business’s 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                                                                                                               
5. Ensures that the EA organizational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results (e.g., profitability, customer service, internal operations), and EA resources are empowered and committed to the integration of business and IT                                                                                                            
6. Assesses disruptive forces affecting the organization and identifies technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enable business strategy                                                                                                                 
7. Tracks and applies innovative technologies, anchoring them in the business and operating model to assess their potential, and uses agile and lean approaches to evolve and manage innovation                                                                                                              
8. Presents 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                                                                                                                                                                       

Required Qualifications

Education - Master's Degree

Specialisation - Degree in business, computer science or engineering, system analysis, or a related field of study.

Professional/Technical Certifications - 

TOGAF certification is a must have

Certified Enterprise Architect (CEA)

ISO 20000 IT Service Management Certification

Scrum Master Certification (CSM or PSM)