With a strong balance sheet and a multi-year commitment to invest in its technology capability, a regional financial institution is looking to bring on a seasoned Enterprise Architect in a newly created role. The primary responsibility of the role is to enable the purpose of the enterprise-wide architecture function, supported by domain architects who provide domain expertise.

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with and acting as a trusted advisor to stakeholders in both business and IT to assist in defining and delivering high quality enterprise capable solutions
• Working closely with stakeholders to develop practical roadmaps to move the enterprise towards the future state vision, while considering business, technical and delivery constraints
• Analyzing stakeholder requirements, current state architecture, and gaps to create a future state architecture vision for one or more parts of the enterprise with a focus on reduced complexity, cost efficiencies, reuse, convergence, reduced risk and/or improved business capabilities
• Participating in defining and operating the architecture governance process to ensure change initiatives align to the vision and roadmaps
• Working closely with Domain Architects across key initiatives and projects to apply architecture principles and standards, and develop reference architectures and design patterns
• Communicating the principles, standards, vision and roadmaps to stakeholders and proactively addressing any questions / concerns identified
• Providing thought leadership on architectural or other topics, developing a forward-looking view of current and emerging technologies and their impact on the Enterprise Architecture
• Maintain and improve the process and tools to enable Enterprise Architect functions, owns and enhances workflows and processes, and delegates with clear accountabilities across the teams to meet objectives / outcomes
• Embedding Platform Thinking in everything

Requirements:

• Comfortable in working in an environment which is vendor intensive
• Ability to communicate complex topics in an understandable way using a level of detail and terms appropriate to the situation
• Formal architecture certification (TOGAF or equivalent)
• Technically strong in different integration mechanisms with open systems, AS400 and Mainframe

To apply:

For interested candidates, please send your CV to yq@kerryconsulting.com. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Registration No: R1109830

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