Director Enterprise Architecture Engineering (m/f/d)

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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

 

The creation, iteration, and maintenance of structures such as enterprise and business architectures embodying the key principles, methods and models that describe the organization's future state, and that enable its evolution. This typically involves the interpretation of business goals and drivers; the translation of business strategy and objectives into an “operating model”; the strategic assessment of current capabilities; the identification of required changes in capabilities; and the description of inter-relationships between people, organization, service, process, data, information, technology, and the external environment. The architecture development process supports the formation of the constraints, standards, and guiding principles necessary to define, assure and govern the required evolution; this facilitates change in the organization's structure, business processes, systems, and infrastructure to achieve predictable transition to the intended state.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

Consultancy

• Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
• Identifies, evaluates, and recommends options, implementing if required.
• Collaborates with, and facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements.
• Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of client personnel, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited.

 

Research

• Builds on and refines appropriate outline ideas for the evaluation, development, demonstration, and implementation of research.
• Contributes to research goals and funding proposals.
• Collects and analyses qualitative and quantitative data as required.

 

• Creates research reports to communicate research methodology, findings, and conclusions.
• Presents papers at conferences, contribute significant sections of material of publication quality, and presents reports to clients.
• Contributes to research plans and identifies appropriate opportunities for publication and dissemination of research findings.
• Makes an active contribution to research communities.

 

Enterprise and business architecture

• Leads the creation and review of a systems capability strategy that meets the strategic requirements of the business.
• Captures and prioritizes market and environmental trends, business strategies and objectives, and identifies the business benefits of alternative strategies.
• Develops enterprise-wide architecture and processes which ensure that the strategic application of change is embedded in the management of the organization, ensuring the buy-in of all key stakeholders.
• Develops and presents business cases, for high-level initiatives, approval, funding, and prioritization.
• Sets strategies, policies, standards, and practices to ensure compliance between business strategies, technology strategies, and enterprise transformation activities.

 

Emerging technology monitoring

• Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
• Assesses and documents the impacts, threats, and opportunities to the organization.
• Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.

 

Business analysis

• Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated