Sr. Manager, Enterprise Architecture

At SNC, we are dedicated to driving innovation and delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that meet the dynamic needs of our clients. We foster a collaborative and forward-thinking environment where creativity and expertise are highly valued, enabling our team to push the boundaries of what's possible.

The Sr. Manager, Enterprise Architecture, sits on the Business and Technology Enablement Team (BTE) at SNC is crucial in guiding the enterprise through transformation and optimization initiatives. This role will support the formulation and realization of digital and technology strategies, driving innovation opportunities. It is also essential for enabling the organization to achieve targeted business outcomes that support enterprise and C-suite priorities, including growing revenue, optimizing costs, and mitigating risks. This role focuses on building relationships with business and IT stakeholders, communicating the value of BTE, and its services, ensuring ongoing satisfaction with BTE services and performance, and shaping and guiding the delivery of BTE services.
This role is responsible for designing, building, and managing an BTE that operates as an internal management consultancy. They engage with business and IT stakeholders, communicate the business value of BTE, and drive the flexibility, adaptability, and evolution of the BTE services and operating model to ensure the realization of targeted business outcomes. Additionally, this role guides business and IT strategy development and execution, facilitates technological and nontechnological trendspotting, initiates business and technology innovation opportunities, aligns business and IT across a democratized IT landscape, supports IT portfolio planning, management, and modernization, and develops and coaches BTE team members.

As SNC's corporate team, we provide the company and its business areas with strategic direction and business support spanning executive management, finance and accounting, operations, human resources, legal, IT, information security, facilities, marketing, and communications.

Key Responsibilities Include:

Manage the EA Practice

• Create and mature the BTE practice into an internal management consultancy.
• Develop the BTE service portfolio to align with organizational needs.
• Recruit and develop critical skills and competencies for the BTE team.
• Identify organizational requirements for BTE resources and cultural changes.

Formulate Strategy and Guide Execution

• Analyze business and operating models, market trends, and technology industry impacts.
• Provide perspectives on organizational readiness for change and innovation.
• Use business architecture approaches to construct future- and current-state business models.

Facilitate Innovation

• Assess disruptive forces and identify technology-enabled innovation opportunities.
• Contextualize technology trends based on broader trends.
• Track and apply innovative technologies using agile and lean approaches.
• Conduct technology experiments to create new products and services.

Build and Maintain Relationships

• Build the BTE practice as an internal management consultancy.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders and stakeholders.
• Facilitate interactions with business leaders and product managers.

Orchestrate the Delivery of Business Outcomes

• Position the BTE practice at the intersection of business and IT.
• Ensure proper delivery of business architecture guidance.
• Identify requirements for resources, structures, and cultural changes.
• Orchestrate future-state architecture delivery.

Plan and Manage the IT Portfolio

• Lead analysis of the IT environment for improvement opportunities.
• Develop implementation plans for BTE based on business requirements.
• Facilitate collaboration across architecture, product management, and delivery teams.
• Ensure consistency with BTE in infrastructure teams.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, engineering, or a related field with at least 10 or more years of relevant experience.
    • Higher education may substitute for relevant experience
• 10 or more years of business experience in strategic planning or business analysis.
• 10 or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management, or operations in a multitier environment.
• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit and trade-off analysis, budgeting, and risk man