Job Description

Enterprise Architecture Manager - (Consumer Products or Financial Services industries).
Enterprise Architect Manager | Senior Level | Full time.
Multiple Locations
PCD320052

Job Description
Role: Technology, Strategy & Advisory, Enterprise Architect Manager - Products / Financial Services.

Location: London, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh

Industry: Products

Mobility: Up to 100%

Career Level: Manager

the organisation is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, the organisation is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of the organisation: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, the organisation CEO.

Your responsibilities as an Enterprise Architect Manager will include:

Assessing the impact of the business strategy on the enterprise architecture, including organisation, applications, data, infrastructure, and operations.

Staying abreast of industry dynamics and the impact of trends on an organisation, to identify and formulate need for change in enterprise architecture.

Co-creating a client’s Enterprise Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring it aligns with business objectives.

Fostering the relationship between the clients business and technology teams, driving alignment and coherence between business and technical requirements.

Leveraging the organisation platform to drive technical, operational and industrial coherence into any solutions or recommendations.

Developing recommendations and translating them into actionable roadmaps for complex and large technology environments using Lean and Agile enterprise principles.

Developing value cases to support executive decision-making for investment in proposed transformation roadmaps, aligned with client’s strategic planning cycles.

Leading the creation of Enterprise Architecture blueprints to accelerate future EA engagements.

Conducting end-to-end vendor assessments across technology, vendor and/or data platforms.

Working between the business and technology client & 3rd-party stakeholders to effectivity formulate, communicate and conclude key architectural decisions.

Providing EA governance to clients throughout their transformation programme to ensure that new initiatives comply with architectural principles whilst meeting the needs of the business and any adjacent value levers (e.g. technical debt reduction, cost saving, adjacent capability opportunities).

Leading the creation of Enterprise Architecture Operating Model definition and implementation roadmaps.

Completing Enterprise Architecture maturity assessment on behalf of clients in a structured and coherent way.

Leading a team of Enterprise Architects.

Qualification
We are looking for individuals who:

Work within or across one of the architectural domains; Business, Application, Data and Technology.

Have experience working on complex digital transformation programmes; working and present across different levels of architecture abstraction; and working with multi-disciplinary teams.

Have interest or experience with key Technology Platforms across AI solutions (OpenAI, public cloud platform), Cloud (public cloud platform, Google), Supply Chain (O9, BlueYonder, Kinaxis), CRM (Dynamics, CRM platform), Data (Palantir, cloud data platform), ERP (enterprise application platform S4) or others.

Have proven stakeholder management and communication skills, leveraged to influence and persuade on key architectural decisions.

Keen to explore how emerging technologies can be leveraged within solutions to client problems; or how they can be used to underpin the methods used to support clients on their transformation journeys.

Set yourself apart (we’re very interested in hearing from you if you have some or all of the below):

Depth of knowledge within any of the Products or Financial Services industry sub-sectors, with a point of view on their underlying business, technology or data architectures and any emerging technology or industry trends.

Experience working as a solution architect or enterprise architect with a focus on business stakeholder management.

Experience in business capability and process taxonomies, maturity assessments and alignment of gaps to enabling technology solutions.

Appreciation of and interest in attaining end-to-end data skills e.g., data quality, metadata, data-mesh, data security, privacy & compliance.

Experience with Enterprise / platform / application (e.g. cloud / enterprise application platform) / data architecture.

Understanding of public and private cloud architectures.

Knowledge of architecture tools such as LeanIX.

Previous consulting experience in technology strategy; or experience in an architecture function.

Experience in major enterprise architecture engagements e.g. application optimisation/rationalisation, re-platforming, modernization of enterprise data architecture.

Certified in COBIT, TOGAF, DCAM and/or public cloud platform solution architecture.

Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK

Familiarity with applying key frameworks such as APQC Process Classification Framework, Zachman Framework, ITIL and Scaled Agile Framework.