VP Global Architecture & Technology

Brinks Texas License #C00550

About Brink's:

The Brink’s Company (NYSE:BCO) is a leading global provider of cash and valuables management, digital retail solutions, and ATM managed services. Our customers include financial institutions, retailers, government agencies, mints, jewelers, and other commercial operations. Our network of operations in 51 countries serves customers in more than 100 countries.

We believe in building partnerships that secure commerce and doing that requires fostering an engaged culture that values people with different backgrounds, ideas, and perspectives. We build a sense of belonging, so all employees feel respected, safe, and valued, and we provide equal opportunity to participate and grow.

Job Description

We are seeking an accomplished and dynamic VP, Architecture & Technology to join our team in Coppell. In this role, you will play a critical part in the technical delivery capability within Brinks Company including Architecture, Data Management, Data Science, Analytics Management and IT Innovation contributing to our ongoing success and strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Technology Strategy and Enterprise Architecture

• Enterprise Architecture: develop and maintain an enterprise architecture framework that is aligned with the overall objectives of the Brinks BBS Strategy, Global IT and Digital Strategy
• Solution Architecture and Technology Roadmaps: develop and maintain technology roadmaps which highlight how the overall objectives of the Brinks Company will be reached.  Design the solution architecture to achieve each step of the technology roadmap
• Rule Book: develop and maintain an architecture rule book which defines architecture standards. Develop processes to ensure the rule book is successfully implemented in projects with partners and agile teams.
• Infrastructure and Security: Actively support the Head of Infrastructure and Information Security & Compliance Leader with their specific architectural requirements.
• Lead: a team of senior architects (enterprise and solution), software engineers (low code) and data engineers. Facilitate a transition to DevOps: ‘you build it, you own it’ for the selected products, to enable CICD
• Collaborate: work closely with the VP Enterprise Applications, VP Regional IT Leads, Information Security & Compliance Leader and VP Planning & Portfolio Management as well as selected business stakeholders and partners to ensure the successful implementation of the architecture rule book
• Emerging technology: Identify future technology and digital trends and innovation to deliver best in class customer experiences that balance value creation with cost optimization and which are in line with the overall 5 year plan and the digital strategy
• Own the Technology Strategy and data and analytics strategy and architecture roadmap leveraging modern architecture practices such as microservices, API economy and move to cloud.

Orchestrates the Delivery of Business Outcomes

• Develops the Business Architecture by positioning the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensures that the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate and execute business strategy.
• Works with business architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context.
• Develops diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables that help guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy.
• Brings Alignment Across Business and IT by leading analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.
• Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
• Works with the CIO and IT leaders to find the right EA organizational design to drive business-outcomes. This may include being part of fusion teams and supporting federated initiatives.
• Ensures that the EA organizational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results (e.g., profitability, customer service, internal operations), and EA resources empowered and committed to the integration of business and IT.

Connects Strategy to Execution

• Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
• Translates and