CTO- Enterprise Architect

<h2><u>Job Description:</u></h2><h1>Role: Enterprise Architect</h1><h2>Team: CTO, Group Architecture</h2><p></p><p></p><p>Deutsche Bank</p><p>The leading German bank is one of the major global financial institutions and a representative bank within Europe.</p><p>Hosts its European technology centre in Romania since January 2014. The office has evolved rapidly and now accommodates a workforce close to 2,000 people.</p><p>Has been designed as an agile working environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and growth in a modern, high-tech atmosphere.</p><p>Provide a stimulating and supportive work environment where employees can participate in the banking technology of tomorrow, grow their careers and excel in their roles.</p><p>As a cutting-edge technology company, we seek top-notch talent to join our team. You'll have the chance to work alongside the industry's brightest minds and develop game-changing solutions that will transform the banking experience</p><p></p><p>Team</p><p>The Chief Technology Office (CTO) drives the bank's technological transformation forward. CTO is the division exercising oversight and control of our technology business. It covers key areas of employee workspace, compute, storage, data bases, networks, and data centers globally, as well as Group</p><p>Architecture.</p><p></p><p>Group Architecture (GA) division plays a pivotal role in accelerating the delivery of a bank-wide simplified target architecture that enhances agility, increases technology speed-to-market, and reduces costs. To achieve these objectives, Group Architecture employs a range of activities that includes developing target architectures and roadmaps, implementing governance frameworks, deploying strategic tools, ensuring design discipline, and establishing policies and standards.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Role Description</p><p>The Data Architecture team with Deutsche Bank’s Chief Technology Office is responsible for delivering enterprise wide data architecture standards, tools and change initiatives, executing in-line with the Bank’s data strategy.</p><p>Your role will be part of a team defining steps to advance and accelerate progress towards our target Data Architecture.  This includes foundational functional aspects required to enable the target architecture and real-world functional challenges that impede progress and/or benefit realisation for moving to the target architecture.  The role covers analysis/investigation (current state, problem statement, stakeholder inputs), defining and documenting the approach (management friendly overviews and more detailed requirements where appropriate) and agreeing the approach with stakeholders within the Chief Technology Office and in business aligned IT Domains.  It also involves hands-on collaboration with other teams on critical deliveries/pilots to prove out approaches and to aid federation with IT Domain teams to allow us to incrementally progress and achieve tangible outcomes as we do so.  This work would be carried out with close guidance from more senior Architects within Group Architecture.</p><p>The focus is on functional data architecture but this has a strong linkage into more technology focused work-streams linked to Public Cloud adoption and the opportunities that brings including emerging technologies/concepts such as Data Products and Data Meshes.  This is a great opportunity to get involved into helping shape how we progress our journey in this critical area.</p><p></p><p>Key Responsibilities:</p><p>·Review of key data architecture topics as prioritised by senior Architects within Group Architecture:</p><p>·Current state analysis via collaboration with stakeholders and investigating available assets/data</p><p>·Define recommended approaches to resolve challenges to enable progress to target state data architecture</p><p>·Liaise with architects in Group Architecture and in other IT domains to agree and align approaches</p><p>·Estimating/quantifying the impact of architectural issues and/or benefits that can be achieved from resolving them to make the business case for change</p><p>·Break down potential steps for multi-stage journeys towards the target state data architecture </p><p>·Create senior management friendly documentation on the challenges, implications, and recommended approach</p><p>·Detailed analysis for important foundational capabilities, pilots and PoCs as prioritised by senior Architects within Group Architecture:</p><p>·Document functional requirements to feed into delivery/product backlogs for key capabilities</p><p>·Work with delivery teams to break down steps allowing incremental progress and interim tangible outcomes</p><p>·Analyse level of conformance of solution design to defined data principles &amp; patterns and to reuse of shared enterprise assets where possible</p><p>·Participation as an embedded Data Architecture representative in delivery sprint processes and regular stand-ups for critical topics</p><p>·Work with architects and