Description
Information System Architect/Enterprise Architect
For one of our prestigious clients we are currently looking for a Information System Architect to join the customers Enterprise Architecture department.
What does this department do?:
- Defining the enterprise architecture directions & standards aligned to the company strategies & goals,
- Creating business cases to develop or transform the IT capabilities supporting the business units' strategies,
- Maintaining a multi-year IT plan & technology roadmap, and providing steer for the decisions on IT investments,
- Defining IT architecture solutions (integrated process, applications, data and technology) to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture directions, and guiding the IT development teams during solution realization
Your role:
You take a contributing role in identifying the strategies required to support the long-term objectives of a major IT function and/or a leading role in designing end-to-end architecture solutions for major IT projects.
- Your function requires extensive knowledge of business operations, information landscape, application platforms & technical infrastructure supporting Financial Market Infrastructures, unusually high analysis capability, a thorough understanding of the software development processes, and the interpersonal skills to create buy-in around the identified strategies or proposed architecture solutions.
- You are able to develop business cases for evolving our IT capabilities and to perform impact analysis, thereby engaging a wide range of stakeholders across business and IT at senior level.
- You cope with systems of various levels of complexity, which can typically span across functional/location lines.
- You work under broad management direction.
- You contribute to the definition of architecture blueprints to clarify & refine the capabilities, the building blocks & the roadmap supporting major IT transformation initiatives. In this context:
- You contribute to the continuous improvement of the Enterprise Architecture processes.
Your experience:
- 10+ years in the IT and more than 5 years in Financial IT
- Experience as lead architct on large-scale transformation projects (>€10mio)
- Several years of enterprise architecture experience
- You can tackle autonomously all types of architectural analysis and can provide global and pragmatic recommendations
- You are conceptual, creative and a strong problem-solver
- Strong communicator
If you have the required skill-set and are interested in applying, please send over your CV for immediate consideration.