AVP Enterprise Architecture

About the role

Architects are responsible for leading the creation and implementation of an Enterprise Architecture and associated artifacts (e.g., Technology backlog) and for ensuring the technical direction of applications and solutions both within and across business area portfolios are strongly aligned with the business strategy. They liaise strongly with other Architects and technical leaders to ensure that technical standards, frameworks, and processes are applicable across multiple applications or business capability areas.

Architects ensure a cost-effective IT portfolio through enterprise reuse where possible and evaluate products and tools to ensure the efficiency of the overall business process. They are responsible for a Target State Enterprise Architecture and roadmap that is reactive, adaptable, maintainable, and capable of evolving with minimum disruption and cost to support emerging technology trends. They provide the link between the Target State Enterprise Architecture Strategy/Roadmap and the Delivery Teams, ensuring that strategic Enterprise Architecture is both realized by and informed by learnings from the implementation of solutions.

Architects manage multiple executive stakeholders within IT and within any assigned operating company and lead the activities of architects or technical leaders through direct or indirect reporting relationships. They are recognized as thought leaders in Architecture by Senior Leadership and are sought after to participate in strategic Enterprise discussions.

Responsibilities

• Ultimately responsible for the correct implementation across the enterprise of Architectural standards definition, compliance, and governance.
• Mentor Principal and Senior employees within their Domain to ensure strong architecture practice and increase their skill set.
• Manage Architects within their Domain when required.
• Collaborate with multiple business and technical stakeholders to create, maintain, and iteratively implement a sustainable and future-proof set of Technology Roadmaps.
• Collaborate with Chief Product owners and Business Strategy Consultants to align business and technology strategies, ensuring realization of business capabilities through Enterprise Architecture.
• Resolve architectural uncertainties through prioritization, planning, and execution of architectural sprints, and reprioritize Technology Roadmap and portfolio backlogs based on outcomes.
• Collaborate with Architects across the Enterprise to ensure standardized, efficient, high-quality, architecturally sound tactical implementations of technology roadmaps.
• Responsible for design time (code coverage, complexity, etc.) and runtime (performance, stability, scalability) quality of architectural designs and implemented applications and solutions across the Enterprise.
• Within or across business area portfolios, work to further business goals through evaluation, assessment, and comparison of emergent technology, which may involve prototyping, proof of concept work, and in-depth vendor engagement.
• Coordinate or participate in tool, technology, and service selection, risk assessments, and sunsetting in conjunction with technical and business stakeholders, ensuring consistency with existing business needs and architectural sustainability.
• Ensure that Enterprise Architecture is operational, agile, and measurable, and is operable within the context of Continuous Build and Deploy for both internal and external implementers.
• Coordinate the identification and assessment of new and emerging hardware, software, and communication technologies, products, methods, and techniques. Evaluate their likely relevance for the organization and provide regular briefings to Leadership, Management, and Staff.
• Actively monitor for and seek opportunities, new methods, and trends in IT capabilities and products to advance the organization. Stay abreast of external trends and new functionality released by third-party/cloud solutions, identifying and socializing opportunities for expanded business applicability.
• Clearly articulate and formally report the benefits of emerging technologies.
• Recognize potential strategic applications of IT and initiate investigation and development of innovative methods of exploiting IT assets to benefit organizations and the community. Play a leading role in improving interaction and understanding between the business and IT.
• Champion Architecture, Technology, and Innovation across the Enterprise through various modes of communication, with a particular focus on the Development Community.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, or equivalent relevant experience; Master’s degree preferred.
• Demonstrates an understanding of strategic issues and is an authority on the systems development life-cycle and typical problems associated with the implementation of information systems, from initial concept through development and implementation to operation and support.
• Proven experience leading value stream mapping and business capability definition.
• Familiarity with ArchiMate as a modeling language for enterprise architecture is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with BizzDesign for enterprise architecture modeling is desired.
• Detailed practical knowledge of the organization’s IT infrastructure and software development and maintenance methods, tools, and techniques.
• Conversant with the organization’s IT strategy, policies, and standards.
• Sound knowledge of risk assessment, change management, configuration management, reliability, and safety methods, and the use of metrics. Skilled in project risk management.
• Ability to effectively articulate architecture to technical and business audiences.
• Communicates persuasively and effectively to business and technical audiences.
• Good knowledge of key areas of the organization that could benefit from the application of technology.
• Able to envisage the business potential of emerging technologies and products.
• Current in understanding of both developer trends and emerging technologies.
• Sound knowledge of Agile/Lean development methodologies and Continuous Deployment Tools and Techniques. Can ensure that overall Enterprise Architecture Designs and Tool/Vendor selections facilitate and/or support these techniques.

Benefits

We provide access to benefits and resources to help employees invest in themselves, including:

• Onsite fitness facilities.
• Generous paid time off.
• Employee professional development programs.
• Healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental).
• Insurance benefits (short- and long-term disability).
• Performance-based incentive plans.
• 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not.

All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $133,500.00 - $274,100.00. Actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location, and experience.