Enterprise Architect

Your Role @ Chanel

CHANEL invests significant efforts to provide state-of-the-art digital tools and services to both its employees and customers in order to contribute to the long-term brand equity of the House.

The UK & Canada Region IT Team are in charge of the design and management of solutions dedicated to supporting the business strategy. Chanel operates a hybrid approach to its solutions and services with a multitude of managed platforms.

Our organisation is professional, fast paced and can be challenging. We are undergoing a large transformation within the region as we move to more Global Enterprise solutions and we are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to set structure and direction for our data, application and technology architecture.

The purpose of this role is to understand business drivers and required capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive and support the business strategy.

You will work with Application Managers, Technical and Solution Architects to deliver best in breed solutions to the business.This will strengthen our ability to deliver key strategical systems in the UK and Canada. The role will report to the Regional CTO.

What impact you can create:

• Chair the Regional Architectural Design Authority

• The Enterprise Architect will provide the necessary thought leadership, analysis and design related to developing a well-managed enterprise architecture. Creating templated processes that help develop a direction for managing the organisation's portfolio of "as-is" and "to be" to align business outcome objectives.

• Design and lead the adoption of Enterprise Architecture across the line of business applications and technologies.

• Manage and develop the architecture for a broad scope of projects, working closely with application development, project and service teams.

• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.

• Represent the Region at a Global Level in the Integrations and Omnichannel Architecture Communities

• Working with the Global Architecture Teams, define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns for UK & Canada, to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.

• Own the Reference Architecture for the UK and Canada including librarianship and delivery of for standards and build patterns

• Build and maintain strong relationships with all functions across the business and IT to understand their processes and how they work to develop them into technical automated and integrated solutions that exploit greater speed, efficiency, performance, accuracy and security

• Balance technicality with commerciality and practicality in making decisions

• Demonstrate through a capability matrix the organisations ability to start a project.

• Show and demonstrate a strong understanding of the longer term run and lifecycle of products

What you would gain from this experience:

• The opportunity to build a strategic relationship with different stakeholders within the business to embed the need to properly analyse and assess their needs with opportunities and solutions.

• Achieve professional recognition in relevant Management Frameworks and certifications.

You are energised by:

• Enabling the Business

• New Technology and staying relevant

• Working in a highly collaborative environment with different cultures

• Consistency

• Governance and Structure

• Ensuring that strong architecture principles are in place

• Prioritising in a high-pressured environment

• Being a motivational team player

What you will bring to the role:

General requirements

• Enthusiasm and ambition

• A relatively new role to the Region you will build upon the framework and processes already in place.

• You will be a self-starter, self-reliant and a determined problem-solver

• Must demonstrate a commitment to company values

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills

• Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities

• A measured and informative approach to highlighting and dealing with conflicts

Business Acumen

• Proven ability to build relationships with and manage key stakeholders.

• Track record of advising Senior Business Management

• Proven advanced capability to work credibly at a senior business level, and be able to anticipate, understand and respond with strategic business challenges and how IT can help solve them.

• Understanding of the organizations’ goals and objectives.

Architectural/Technology Skills

• Experience Developing an Enterprise Architecture

• Auditing Compliance against EA standards

• Strong experience in the BDAT domains

• TOGAF Certified

• Advantageous if you have experience of one or more of the following: LeanIX, MEGA, Atlassian JIRA, Microsoft Azure, AWS, APIM, Kafka,

Plus (The following types of qualification are of interest)

• ITIL or Project Management Certification

• Azure Certifications

Benefits at Chanel

Have been created to support you across your professional and personal life by offering you:  

• Physical Wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance covering pre-existing medical conditions and ability to add family members, Online GP App with 24/7 appointments available within 24 hours and Cycle Scheme participation for a tax-exempt bike and/or accessories  

• Financial Wellbeing: Pension, Life Assurance and Retail Discounts across multiple retailers including Supermarkets, Gyms, Days Out and 100s more  

• Mental Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programmes and Other Support Lines  

• Lifestyle: Arts & Culture Ticket Discounts across major London attractions and CHANEL Product Discounts

• Employee Recognition: Service Awards Programme offering CHANEL Products, Retail Vouchers and Additional Holidays across milestones  

 *Benefits are eligibility dependent and subject to change at any time   

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity, and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience, and potential you could bring to CHANEL.