Enterprise Architect, Data and Business Applications

Enterprise Architect, Data and Business Applications

City of London/hybrid

£Competitive + bonuses and excellent benefits

Enterprise Architect is sought by a prestigious financial services organisation based in the heart of the City/hybrid working. Within this role you will help ensure that the overall application and data architecture is maintained while also being a key contributor to the strategic agenda in Business Application and Data domains.

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape initial thinking on project solutions, factoring in internal drivers (architecture principles and technology strategy) and external market/regulatory forces
• Influence and manage stakeholders (up to Board level), ensuring the enterprise architecture informs the strategic investment plan and that all solutions delivered through the change portfolio realise the strategic intent
• Provide architectural oversight and design authority on solution delivery, working with key project, technology, and business stakeholders.
• Ensuring system and information security remains central to all designs
• Review designs created by projects and local technology teams to ensure they meet the expected quality and completeness standards needed to support implementation activities, governance and compliance
• Provide technology agnostic subject matter expertise around application capabilities and their alignment with business processes
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with external parties, eg software vendors and research companies, to promote technology innovation and ensure the enterprise architecture is future-proofed and in line with industry best practice and market trends
• Act as the go-to person for project resources, business analysts, and product owners for design and roadmap queries
• Collaborate across the business in the creation of, then help manage and maintain, business focussed architectural roadmaps across the application and data domains
• Own the suitability of the activities and artefacts to ensure the approach is not under/over engineered, and quality assurance of project architectural deliverables
• Provide technical authority and governance across key strategic portfolios
• Present at C-Level and to Segment Leads to win over key stakeholders in respect of solutions/change required
• Maintain key architectural assets and processes
• Provide a consultancy role to IT and business teams where appropriate, and look to upskill others within the organisation around architectural practices and behaviours

Experience & Skills

• 5+ years working in IT Architecture (preferably financial services)
• TOGAF qualified
• Experience delivering architecture services to teams operating in agile and waterfall working patterns
• Excellent technical expertise spanning across application, data and business architecture domains
• Experience in areas such as the following highly beneficial: CRM solutions, Core Banking, Microsoft Power Platform, Modern Data Management technologies and approaches, DevOps processes and best practices.
• Experience of applying modern architecture: SaaS, PaaS, API's, micro services, analytics/ML, data
• Experience in operational delivery of IT products in an international environment
• Understanding of solution trade-offs such as cost, scope, timescales, and balance between strategic and short-term considerations
• Strong planning and organizing skills including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

For a full consultation on this pivotal role, please send your CV to ARC IT Recruitment.