Chief Architect Officer at Career Outsourcing

Department/ Division: ICT

Job Grade: Director

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer

Job Purpose:

Work with business and IT Stakeholders, to ensure that the IT Architecture of the organization delivers value, service and sustainability aligned to existing and future business strategy and processes.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for Enterprise Architecture with strong focus on IT alignment with business objectives.
• Managing the Enterprise Data organization Responsible for the creation and management of the Enterprise Data strategy to enable enhanced regulatory compliance, business intelligence and operational efficiencies.
• Align banks long term strategies and create strategic enterprise investment plan.
• Create an integrated technology roadmap and portfolio plan for transformation of key enterprise capabilities for growth into a large super regional Bank.
• Transformation to include cross line of business
• Sales and Service and Omni channel digital capabilities enabled by a unified data and architectural strategy.
• Align investments to deliver operational efficiency, regulatory compliance and revenue growth with a singular strategy.
• Develop and maintain a holistic view of the organization’s enterprise and solution architectures, processes and information technology assets.
• Identify and deliver innovative architecture and technology that will increase business value; reduce cost; improve service.
• Provide strategic vision and direction across the organization to maintain alignment to relevant and applicable advances in technology.
• Develop, lead and manage a team of IT architects consisting of both internal and external team members. Design and oversee implementation of end-to-end integrated systems.
• Deliver architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency inline with business strategy.
• Cultivate relationships with IT management.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of the organization's technologies and architectures.
• Develop and maintain current and planned state architectural blueprints.
• Develop and maintain a aspirational architectural road map for the enterprise.
• Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals and strategies.
• Gain organizational commitment for enterprise level architecture and infrastructure initiatives.
• Provide architectural direction to Enterprise Architects, Business Architects and Solution Architects.
• Develop architectural metrics and reports for the executive team, business and IT management.

The Successful Applicant

• A proven track record of delivering business value from IT either by aiding clients to develop and govern their enterprise architecture or by providing solution architecture in response to a particular business need.
• Have used architecture tools such as Troux, System Architect, Rational Rose, Casewise, Aris or equivalent.
• Have a track record with a blue-chip consulting or systems integration firm or as an IT Senior Manager within a leading Enterprise/Organization.
• To have recognized expertise in one or more of the following TOGAF architectural domains: Business, Application, Data, Technology.
• Experience in Enterprise Architecture. Good stakeholder management and influencing skills covering colleagues, partners / vendors and project sponsors.
• Experience of the full Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Some experience in modelling techniques (e.g. UML, OOAD, SSADM, Yourdon etc.) would be beneficial.
• General technical experience is required e.g. Unix, Oracle, Web developments, ECommerce etc.
• Integration with External parties.
• Establishing architecture standards within the specialist discipline of applications/data.
• Designing and monitoring complex architectures.
• Providing advice to the business, including offering solutions to business need that meet architecture requirements.
• Data modelling and database design.