Enterprise Architect - Data

Division: EA

You will join the Enterprise Architecture (EA) division at Euroclear, a leading post-trade financial market infrastructure.

The EA division is an authority and multi-disciplinary group of architects responsible for:

• Defining the enterprise architecture directions & standards, aligned to the company strategies & goals;
• Defining the investment themes to develop or transform the IT capabilities supporting the business units’ strategies;
• Maintaining a multi-year strategic investment plan & technology map and advising on IT investment decisions;
• Steering the definition & realisation of capabilities and solutions to support business objectives (process, applications, data and technology) in alignment with the enterprise architecture directions.

Role

You will be joining our EA Data Squad and – as an Enterprise Architect for Data – you will guide the implementation of our corporate & IT strategy and IT transformation by defining and managing the enterprise data architecture and our data capabilities covering data management, data systems and data usage.

You will deliver and supply the following architectural services:

• Strategy Enablement
  • Assembling and analysing strategic Business and IT objectives and demonstrating understanding of external industry and market trends, to resolve potential impact on the enterprise’s strategy, direction, and architecture
  • Lead analysis of current and future-state capabilities and IT environment to detect gaps and opportunities, assess new technologies, and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the enterprise towards its targeted outcomes.
  • Facilitating Business and IT alignment and supporting the translation into an executable change roadmap that will realise the strategic objectives and deliver the targeted value outcomes, requiring close collaboration with a wide range of collaborators.
  • Delivering target and/or transition architectures and standards and ensuring they are properly maintained and governed, providing viable options and transparency of strategic direction and implications for the enterprise and for steering of delivery.
• Strategy Implementation Oversight
  • Providing visibility on the progress of the capability implementation and alignment with established targets and intended roadmaps.
  • Providing clarity on the evolution of Technology Debt and the planning and implementation of mitigation and remediation actions.
• Delivery Planning and Solutions
  • Developing clear standards, reference architecture patterns, principles and guardrails, through the EA governance model, to support effective and efficient decision-making and provide clarity for delivery initiatives.
  • Collaborating with delivery and infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, to maximise shared technologies, tools and processes where appropriate, and provide continuous feedback towards the further evolution of the enterprise architecture.
• Architecture Advisory
• Providing consultative advice and support, adapted to the relevant context, for business leaders and other stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to support decision-making on strategy, delivery, M&A and/or other relevant topics.
• Architecture Practice
  • Collaborating with other architects and supporting delivery of transversal architectural topics and supplying a positive working environment.
  • Supplying continuous improvement of architectural practice and effective delivery of architectural services.

 

Profile

• 5 years’ experience (minimum) in a relevant data architecture role, preferably within a leading financial or corporate enterprise. 
• Demonstrated experience with architecting enterprise data platforms, preferably leveraging cloud-based technologies such as Azure Synapse & Data Fabric.
• Expert analytical, planning and organisational skills, and you are able to connect the dots and navigate in a constantly evolving environment.
• Result-oriented and you collaborative to deliver business outcomes.
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