Description
ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT (TOGAF)
The contract is with a large organisation in Brussels to be on assignment at a client site in Stockholm. The client is looking for an Enterprise Architect with expertise in IT Enterprise Architecture analysis of complex business structure and processes, comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application and systems engineering. He/she should have knowledge and experience in conducting IT Studies of different nature, experience in definition and implementation of technical roadmaps and extent of experience in coordinating team members, facilitating meetings with collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
Tasks and Deliverables:
. Represent the ICT-Unit in setting up the Enterprise Architecture practice
. Support coordination of the IT Architecture team formed by solution and system architects
. Support the development of the IT strategy management framework and the IT strategy (ongoing activity);
. Developing guidelines and principles for, norms and standards, design, data and metadata structures, information flow, supported technologies, programming languages and browsers, reduce before-reuse before-buy before-build, acquisition and configuration management, access and rights management, decommissioning;
. Reviewing the as-is enterprise architecture and identify and propose areas of improvements for ensuring interoperability, maintainability, scalability, sustainability, integrity and compatibility of information system;
. Defining and maintaining the target enterprise architecture and the roadmaps towards its implementation;
. Identifying business synergies, common goals and objectives across multiple strategic programs and support adequate architecture design opportunities;
. Defining business patterns, technical metadata and data models in compliance with business needs;
. Define opportunities of emerging technologies and industry best practices and draft IT strategies accordingly.
Skills and Experience:
. Overall expertise and experience in IT Enterprise Architecture;
. Experience in IT strategy management framework and IT strategy development;
. Experience in defining and implementing an EA practice in an organisation previously lacking one;
. Experience with EA transformation projects based on the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) or equivalent;
. Experience in documenting (in English), introducing and monitoring strategies, policies, standards and technical roadmaps on the enterprise level;
. Experience and ability to adapt communication to different stakeholders. Negotiation skills.