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Enterprise Architect

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5 months ago
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Enterprise Architect is required by well established and highly successful organisation.

Purpose and impact:

  • To work with business and technology teams to drive the right strategic technology decisions for the organisation. To ensure their use of technology is proportionate and fit for purpose.

  • To help the formation of the IT Roadmap as part of their Strategy & Architecture team, and to help align the technology strategy to business strategy, in consultation with the service owners.

  • To create models of business architecture, data architecture, and information systems architecture wherever necessary to support Enterprise Architecture & technology goals.

  • To ensure the proper governance of new technology introduced into the estate, and the application of best practice to architectural decisions.

    Accountable to: The role is accountable to the Head of IT Strategy & Architecture.

    Responsibilities:

  • Consult with stakeholders in the business, including up to Director level. Work to understand business roadmaps and collaborate with the rest of the Architecture team on the alignment of the IT roadmap with those business roadmaps.

  • Produce Enterprise Architecture artefacts as required to model/document an area of the business and the systems that support it. E.g., Business Capability maps, Data models, Systems diagrams.

  • Take a broad, organisation wide view of technology and business needs, balancing the concerns of disparate stakeholders, and guiding strategic decisions around technology and the application in accordance with what is best for the whole organisation.

  • Contribute to and help maintain the Enterprise repository of information. E.g., systems landscape maps, enterprise data models, enterprise applications catalogue (LeanIX).

  • Collaborate with other Architects to help Enterprise Architecture and Solutions Architecture practices work seamlessly together, as far as possible.

  • Ensure that Solution Architects have sufficient information and support, in terms of briefings, handovers, guidance and check ins, to support the end-to-end Architectural lifecycle.

  • Contribute to, and help enforce, governance. Aid in the production of Architecture Principles, Policies & Rules/Standards.

  • Help foster an open, positive culture within the wider technology department, working with all IT colleagues to explore new ideas and ways of working.

  • Mentor and help grow junior Architects within the team.

  • To maximise personal productivity, minimise duplication and errors; and manage our information efficiently and securely to reduce risk, though effective use of Office 365 and our internal IT systems and applications.

    A great opportunity to make a real impact and shape the way Enterprise Architecture is delivered across the organisation.

    Basic salary £63-66,500

    Based Northampton

    Hybrid working with 2 days per week in the office

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