Description
Enterprise Architect Job Description
Core Skills:
- Extensive knowledge of business strategy and the IT realm
- Ability to align information technology, people and processes with the specific business strategies of the customer organization.
- Conceptualize, articulate and implement large enterprise transformation initiatives in global financial institutions in NL
- Work directly with executives as well as technical staff on the floor and able to delve into nitty-gritty technology issues
- Knowledge of Dutch financial domain including insurance, mortgage and banking sectors.
- Familiar with core business processes around customer, intermediaries, corporates
- Familiar Regulatory and Compliance requirements of Dutch financial sector
- Familiar with various standards and models such as AFD etc.
- Exposure to multiple types of IT implementations in Holland including homegrown and package implementations
- Familiar with various package products and solution frameworks in Dutch IT industry in financial sector
- Hands-on with Archimate 2.0
- Practicing experience of EA frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman and others (Certification is preferable)
- Deep solution architecture experience in three or more core technology areas such as Web 2.0, SOA/Integration, BPM, Mobility, Customer Experience Management, Content Management, Big Data (DWH and BI) and cutting edge areas such as Cloud, Social Media, Analytics etc.
Soft Skills:
- Dutch language - read, write and spoken, in addition to English
- Being able to explain complex issues to people at different levels.
- Having suitable time prioritization and management.
- Having customer service orientation.
- Having emotional intelligence
- Being a leader to motivate others
- Being proactive and ambitious
- Having competent written and spoken communication
- Having stakeholder management skills
- Client advocacy and consultative skills
Role:
Strategic Consulting
- Provide solutions for customer business problems and define implementable solutions to realize customer business strategies
- Work closely with customer CIO office to drive the strategic and transformation initiatives
- Architecture Definition, Architecture Review & Assessments
- Strategic decisions such as tradeoff between NFRs, Build vs. buy, architecture roadmap (timing of architecture investments) and ensuring a platform that can adopt to changes in Business
- Contribute for IPs/Tools/Technology Frameworks, Technology primers, Thought leadership articles, Point of view docs, Industry contribution, Reusable artifacts
- Large Deals Support, RFI/RFP Response, Customer Visit Presentations, Due Diligence
Enabling
- Architecture adoption in software development
- Improving technical quality
- Improving project profitability and predictability
- Grooming in-house talent
- Technical Thought Leadership
- Workshops
- White Papers
- Emerging Trends
- Reference Architectures