IT Director – Enterprise Architecture - Hybrid US

General Summary

The Enterprise Architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise leaders, Business Partners, Product Managers, Product Owners, and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The enterprise architect’s scope of activities could include helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes, such as growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving sustainability. They focus on developing the business and IT strategy and the organization's enterprise architecture.

Essential Functions

• Work with IT, Business Leadership, and Stakeholders to develop a strategy
• Connect strategy to execution
• Build the EA value proposition and structure business engagement
• Enable value-based messaging and handle multi-functional relationships
• Develop the business architecture
• Bring alignment across business and IT
• Collect, analyze, review, and refine innovations, trends, disruptions, opportunities, or ideas
• Develops, Tracks, and Leads Execution of Innovations, Trends, Disruptions, Opportunities, or Ideas
• Support Portfolio Modernization and Develop Roadmaps
• Support Solutions Design and Delivery

Skills and Abilities Required

• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, and predictive analytics.
• Understanding business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.
• Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Understanding of various operating models, such as project-centric and product-centric, and different types of agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.
• Awareness of existing, new, and emerging technologies and processing environments.
• Effective leadership skills with outstanding soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Mastery of all components of enterprise architecture, business & IT principles and processes.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
• 8 or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis, or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant.
• 8 or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution, or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management, or operations in a multi tier environment.
• Enterprise Architecture Framework experience is required.
• Certification in at least ONE of the following is required: TOGAF, Zachman, FEA, or Gartner

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements

• Hybrid near Siemens Location within US - Normal office environment
• Occasional travel (

Why us?

• Flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here.
• Great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software.
• A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future one day at a time in over 200 countries.
• We are dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in.
• All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
• Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!
• Siemens Software. Transform the Everyday with Us