Technical Strategy

• Collaborate with domain architects, engineers, and leaders to document current state architecture, develop domain capability models, heatmaps, maturity assessments, health assessments, and maturity assessments, and technical roadmaps
• Contribute to the development, management, and enhancement of business capability model along maturity / optimization framework to drive enablement of the longer-term roadmap
• Support the strategic planning process by providing input to the scope definition of strategic initiatives leveraging roadmaps, capability heatmaps, etc to provide visibility to impacts, dependencies, overlaps and improvement opportunities.
• Understands, advocates, and augments the business and IT strategies
• Analyses of industry trends and future technology advances as input into the technical strategy.

Architecture Governance

• Collaborate with domain architects, engineers, and leaders to develop technical standards, reference architectures, design patterns, opinion papers, and architecture decision frameworks that guide the design of technology solutions, especially those requiring integration of multiple platforms, operating systems, and applications across the enterprise.
• Develop and maintain relevant Enterprise Architecture artifacts and store within the EA repository, including - current state architecture, standards, reference architectures, capability maps
• Contribute to the architecture review process by creating validation checklists, reviewing architectural artifacts, and providing domain specific guidance to drive architectural alignment across the enterprise.
• Defines, communicates, and documents the architecture patterns, standards, and technologies.
• Defines metrics to measure and demonstrate architectural value.

Architecture Development

• Collaborates with solution/technical architects to deliver architecture artifacts needed for End-to-End Architecture & Solution Architecture Approach deliverables
• Present recommendations and solutions clearly and concisely and can focus on key points to portray the intended message or purpose
• Analyse enterprise business context (e.g., trends and business strategy) and change requirements in other architecture viewpoints to derive the solution architecture 'future' state.
• Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design solutions that meet operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability.
• Communicate and advocate for the usage of Advocate [and drive adoption] of best practices to ensure standardization of business architecture outputs across the enterprise

Community Of Practice

• Be an ambassador of Enterprise Architecture that broadly communicates the vision, principles, and goals of the EA organization.
• Contribute to the architecture community of practice by developing executive presentations, solutions design documentation, and point of view technology white papers and sharing them with other members
• Research, enforce, and drive the adoption of design patterns throughout the enterprise and evangelizes best practices for solution design and development
• Maintain contact with vendors, industry peers, and professional associations to keep informed of existing and evolving industry standards and technologies and evolving industry standards and technologies
• Develop strong relationships with other IT departments and assist less experienced architect in the development of their technical skills.
• Fosters and maintains good relationships with colleagues to meet expected customer service levels
• Analyze technology trends and spur innovation

Experiences, Skills, Training
Required

• BA/BS in computer science/technology or business, or equivalent work experience
• 10 years in IT/IS
• Experience working in a complex, geographically distributed working environment
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence engineers, peers, and senior stakeholders to consensus decisions
• Enterprise Architecture experience
• Technical expertise in at least one of the following technical domains:
  • Network
  • Hosting / Cloud
  • Business Applications
  • Identity & Access Management
  • Data Management
  • Client Computing
  • Voice / Video / Collaboration
  • Information Security

Preferred

• TOGAF certification

The hiring range for this position is $172,036.00-$230,780.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.