IT Strategist/Sr. IT Strategist (Formulation and Governance)-ITDAI DE

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Job Summary 

Under the general supervision of the Unit Chief of the Digital Excellence and Advisory Unit within the Information Technology Department (ITD), the IT Strategist/Sr. IT Strategist – Governance, Infrastructure, Cloud & Agentic AI contributes to improving the coherence, consistency, and sustainability of the Fund’s technology landscape. The role focuses on infrastructure architecture and Application Portfolio Management (APM), complemented by modern enterprise architecture practices such as cloud‑native modernization and AI‑enabled development. 

Within this scope, the role treats Agentic AI as an important architectural focus area, alongside cloud, security, and integration, emphasizing analysis, documentation, and support for responsible adoption within established governance frameworks. 

 The role supports alignment of technology initiatives with the Business Technology Strategy (BTS), contributes to modernization efforts, and assists in identifying and mitigating technical debt across the portfolio. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Architecture & Portfolio Support 

• Contributes to the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture roadmaps across infrastructure, applications, integration, and data, working in coordination with ITD teams. 

• Support the definition and documentation of target‑state architectures, including cloud services, hybrid and on‑premises platforms, information objects, and business capabilities. 

• Support Application Portfolio Management activities, including application inventory, capability and information modeling, and technology lifecycle analysis, with attention to data quality. 

• Participate in architectural discussions related to modernization from legacy systems toward modular, cloud‑native, and AI‑enabled architectures. 

• Contribute to application rationalization activities (retire / replace / modernize) aimed at reducing technical debt. 

2. Architecture Governance & Standards Support 

• Participate in enterprise architecture governance forums and related working groups. 

• Contribute to the documentation and maintenance of architectural principles, technology standards, and reference materials. 

• Support Architecture Review Board (ARB) processes through preparation of materials, architectural analysis, and follow‑up actions. 

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts such as capability models, application maps, infrastructure views, data models, and integration patterns. 

• Encourage reuse of approved patterns and reference architectures across projects. 

• Assist, as requested, in the review of technology proposals and platform options. 

• Support integration approaches based on secure APIs, event‑driven architectures, and managed platform services. 

• Collaborate with Cybersecurity teams to support alignment with Zero Trust principles, secure SDLC practices, and data protection requirements. 

3. AI & Agentic Architecture Analysis 

• Work with the AI Division and relevant stakeholders to support architectural guardrails for AI‑assisted development, intelligent automation, and Agentic AI‑enabled platforms. 

• Contribute to the analysis and documentation of architectural considerations for Agentic AI, including trust boundaries, identity and access models, risk considerations, e