Description
Enterprise Architect, Portfolio Architect, Architecture, Business, Data Technology, Strategy, Application, Investment Management, Asset Management, Financial Services.
Our client is a leading Investment Management company. Investment Services and Solutions (ISS) is one of the organisations main business pillars and investment areas and is going through a phase of rapid and substantial transformation of its business model as well as the Technology estate. As a result of this significant portfolio of transformation they have a requirement for a Portfolio Architect. The role will focus on providing senior leadership to both the Business and Technology stakeholders in order to direct the investment and transformation from an architecture perspective to help deliver the strategic initiatives in line with the Business, Technology and Data strategies. This includes working with senior business stakeholders to understand and develop their longer-term vision, aligning roadmaps to this, developing technology roadmaps that align to both the business vision as well as technology objectives, providing guidance on M&A activity.
Key Responsibilities:
Architecture:
- Identify the current state of how technology is used in the organisation, what technologies are being used and how they are deployed along with the business value the technology is providing.
- Work with stakeholders to understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organisation's targeted customer outcomes.
- Work as part of the team in proposing and gaining agreement for target application architecture for ISS that includes the articulation of a clear transformation roadmap.
- Manage key business stakeholders to achieve consensus agreement to vision and roadmap.
- Ensure that technology solutions to business problems are both pragmatic and supportive of the Global strategic architecture direction.
- Develop architectures that are aligned to business goals, drivers, and strategies; drawing on knowledge of current and possible future business trends, policies and practices and business competition landscape.
- Understand, advocate and augment the principles of information technology strategies.
Strategy:
- Maintain a forward-looking perspective on emerging technology developments and their relevance to Business and Technology Strategies.
- Monitor technology developments to ensure that the organisation is effectively positioned to respond to and leverage opportunities that enhance competitive position through the effective application of technology to the business.
- Develop a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state
Leadership & Communication:
- Be an advisor to the business and technology leads on ISS architecture and strategy.
- Act as a senior leader within the Technology department (3000+ members).
- Proactively communicate decisions, roadmap, insight to the technology and business colleagues.
- Proactively input into and provide architectural leadership in governance forums.
Innovation:
- Participate in the development of new concepts to support business strategy and provide recommendations to leverage technology for competitive advantage, internal efficiency and improved service.
- Participate in managing vendor relationships on new and existing products, evaluating usefulness and cost of products and making appropriate recommendations.
Collaboration:
- Architecture's success will depend on close collaboration with many other teams in including Engineering, Data, Delivery, Change, Security and Business teams
Delivery:
- Design and deliver the transformation of the ISS technology estate, together with the Technology and Business teams.
- Translate high level business architecture into technology architectures that align to global strategies, simplify the existing architecture, deliver cost saving opportunities and where appropriate, reusable services.
Experience Required:
- Designed & delivered large transformation programme from Legacy to new technology
- Extensive experience in asset management across Investment Management, operations and distribution business
- Experience with and strong in working with C-suite leadership
- Skilled in the architecture, design and implementation of complex technology solutions
- Hands-on experience managing end-to-end systems development from customer specifications through to deployment
- Experience of managing technology driven business process change