Enterprise Architect

About the Opportunity

Job Summary

The enterprise architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The enterprise architect’s scope of activities could include helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks and improving sustainability. They focus on development of the business and IT strategy and enterprise architecture of the organization as a whole.

The enterprise architect must:

• Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape.
• Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships.
• Adapt to changing business and operating models.
• Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes.
• Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning.
• Support various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric
• Communicate the value of enterprise architecture, and its portfolio of services
• Drive the evolution of the EA teams services and operating model
• Coach and mentor other architects, product owners/managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking.

Regrettably, the university is unable to work sponsor for this role, now or in the future.

This position is hybrid; working three days onsite is required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
• Eight or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant.
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.
• Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Understanding of various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric and also different types of agile principles, methodologies and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.
• Awareness of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments.
• Effective leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business development.
• Mastery of all components of enterprise architecture, business & IT principles, and processes.
• Excellent analytical, planning and organizational skills. Organizationally savvy, with situational and contextual intelligence of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.
• Proven ability to balance the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals.
• Vendor- and technology-neutral — more interested in achieving targeted business outcomes than in personal preferences, or in vested personal preferences of other business and IT leaders.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Supports Formulation of Strategy and Guides Execution

• Works with the Academic and Administrative Leadership Stakeholders to Develop Strategy
• Develops diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables that help guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy.
• Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise operating model, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment.

Builds and Maintains Relationships

• Builds the Enterprise Architecture Value Proposition and Structures Business Engagement
• Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.
• Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-dri