Enterprise Architect

Job Summary:

The Enterprise Architect develops, implements, maintains, and continuously improves the enterprise architecture framework and roadmap of the organization. This position orchestrates the planning, governance, and execution of enterprise architecture strategies to ensure that digital transformation initiatives are integrated and aligned with the organization's overall plans and objectives. In addition, this position also ensures that technology solutions are aligned to achieve operational efficiency and technological advancement.

General Responsibilities:
Enterprise Architecture Planning and Design

• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), as well as end-to-end processes, to determine corresponding system solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Drives integration projects and corresponding strategies in collaboration with business units and development teams.
• Plans, executes, and manages the integration of new applications into existing systems and software throughout the enterprise.
• Develops and maintains the Enterprise Integration Architecture blueprint.
• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and patterns to ensure integration-related decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize integration across products, services, projects, and systems.
• Creates reference architectures focused on detailed design principles, decision points, detailed APIs, major systems, and dependencies between business and ICT.
• Evaluates the design and implementation of ICT solutions to ensure seamless and effective integration within existing infrastructure.
• Performs an analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement. In addition, analyzes the technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise, as well as on the enterprise infrastructure architecture.
• Guides integration investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation to drive targeted business outcomes.
• Researches and provides a recommendation on integration products and services.
• Evaluates results of projects with integrations requirements and provides recommendations based on the findings.
• Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models, and architecture designs to help the architecture review board (ARB) assess the impact of new and ongoing investment on the business and IT landscape.
• Works in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders to ensure that enterprise architecture initiatives and solutions support the requirements of line organizations and deliver identified business value.
• Works closely with product owners and EA peers to enable coherent interpretation of the various business processes affected by integration efforts.
• Works with the business in deriving from the overall roadmap the technology-based regulatory budget forecasts and works with various group in the preparation and submission to Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC).
• Works closely with the project to enhance or improve business processes via integration or, as necessary, minimize the impact of integration on those processes.
• Collaborates with system owners in the testing of newly integrated software programs and applications.
• Leads integration testing phase of software and applications under development in order to identify and remedy potential problem areas.
• Liaises with software developers to address issues in program logic and the interoperability of new applications with existing systems software
• Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.

Enterprise Architecture Governance

• Provides support in the planning, development, monitoring, and maintenance of the enterprise architecture tool.
• Performs and manages the integration architecture design compliance review and audit across the lifecycle of a project from RFP development up to project implementation to ensure compliance to approved architecture and technology standards.
• Manages Technology Standards from its development, periodic review, trend monitoring and scanning, POC and evaluation, periodic release, and creation of programs and projects to implement the changes (invest, maintain, contain, disinvest).
• Develops and establishes standards for releasing and processing RFIs and RFPs.
• Supports product managers in EOL (end of life) product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire products, services or systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).

Technical Competencies:

• Enterprise and Business Architecture
• Applications & Platform Management
• Core Network Design
• Software Design
• IT Planning
• Change Management
• Transition Planning & Management

Qualifications:

• Graduate of Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or its equivalent
• Relevant certification is a plus but not required (i.e., program/technology-specific certifications)
• At least 5 years of relevant experience as a technical SME and with experience in a tech lead/technical management capacity
• Experience in a relevant industry (i.e., utilities or energy sector) and familiarity with relevant regulatory requirements and industry standards is a plus but not required
• Excellent analytical, planning, organizational and technical and skills
• Strong collaboration skills; Ability to work with developers in an in-and-out outsourced environment
• Excellent business communication skills and with ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Possesses the following technical knowledge/skills/abilities:
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments
• Hands-on experience as full-stack developer (for grid platforms) / Salesforce (for customer platforms) / cloud and on-prem development and implementation (for enterprise platforms)
• Competency with XML constructs and schemas
• Knowledge of various backend development languages like Java, Go and Python
• Knowledge of various database technologies like MS SQL, MySQL, MongoDB and Oracle
• Knowledge of various frontend web development languages like JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Knowledge of various aspects of an enterprise technology architecture like business, information, data, network and security
• Preferably with deep knowledge in the following technical disciplines: infrastructure and network design, servers and storage, database management and operations, clustering technologies, virtualization, cloud technologies and active directory and protocols
• Knowledge of information principles and processes
• Knowledge of financial models and budgeting
• Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps)
• Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Knowledge and understanding of different modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate)
• Understanding and knowledge of IT standards and controls
• Excellent understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture
• Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
• Solid understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
• Experience in overseeing the linking of cross-functional applications between disparate business unit and systems.
• Experience with API protocols and schemas such as SOAP and REST.
• Direct, hands-on experience with automated integration tools
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strate
• Experience in developing architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps

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