Region NA IT Architecture Lead

Key Accountabilities

• Evaluate the technology portfolio and identify opportunities to reuse, replace, or modernize architectural components to drive strategic value
• Assess the impact of business strategy on the architecture landscape, including organization, information, infrastructure, and applications
• Identify and define leading enterprise architecture capabilities, roles, processes, and skills
• Create architecture blueprints and roadmaps for complex and large technology environments based on business models
• Develop deep understanding of industry dynamics and the impact of technology trends to identify and formulate recommended changes to existing enterprise architectures
• Navigate through the Thyssenkrupp global network and leverage relevant expertise to develop enterprise architecture insights
• Lead the creation or evolution of the EA function, including the coordination of enterprise information systems, data, technical and solution architecture viewpoints across stakeholders, product owners and agile development teams through the Architecture Review Board
• Establish an effective Architecture Review Board to assess, evaluate and approve architecture-related initiatives, along with setting, reviewing, and enforcing architectural standards and policies across the organization
• Lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements; analyze industry, technology and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise
• Analyze the current business and IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Work within the Management Team to develop application strategies and project priorities
• Act as a single point of contact (SPOC) for Enterprise Architecture in North America
• Cultivate tkMNA IT's role as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders defining and implementing enterprise architectures that drive business value, manage complexity, and accelerate harmonization of the IT assets
• Manage the day-to-day architecture design in our public & private cloud by monitoring solution configuration, maintenance, performance, and repair
• Plan and manage solution lifecycle revisions to host solutions and software
• Work with vendors to identify capability and quality improvements
• Lead and facilitate the creation of governing principles to guide solution decision making for the enterprise
• Ensure that the optimal governance structure and compliance activities (such as handling waivers) are associated with EA compliance
• Develop an implementation plan for the EA, based on business requirements and IT strategies; oversee EA implementation, ongoing EA refinement activities, and the documentation of all EA design and analysis work
• Maintain operations policies & procedures; including security; disaster recovery; monitoring and customer communications
• Partner with internal & external business owners on developing standards, application solution reviews, POCs and cloud migrations
• Advise emerging technologies that should be integrated and/or introduced to ensure cloud computing capabilities respond to the needs of the business strategy
• Understand business challenges to define and drive strategies to help businesses grow at scale
• Ensure systems security and compliance with SOC2, ISO, GDPR, FedRAMP, etc. to maintain the proper security posture
• Partner with risk and business continuity teams on Disaster Recovery plans and activities
• Accountable for making certain that projects are completed according to project specifications and that the appropriate activities and documentation are fulfilled satisfactorily
• Consult with program/project teams to fit solutions to architecture across all viewpoints
• Define organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the EA
• Assure solutions not only are a fit for the specific purpose but also closely align with the standards guidelines of technology solutions
• Direct the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership
• Develop and execute solutions which further reduce the percentage of time spent on reactive work
• Provide analysis of security protection technologies as necessary

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information assurance, MIS, or related field, or equivalent
• A minimum of five years of experience in managing, developing and optimizing IT solutions and vendor/partners, including more than 3 years of proven hands-on experience
• A minimum of three years of experience creating roadmaps and developing business cases
• A minimum of three years of experience leading teams, facilitating client workshops and developing architecture recommendations
• Comprehensive and demonstrable experience at an intermediate/expert level in: Business Architecture, Data and Information Architecture and Governance, Enterprise Architecture Operating Model, Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Planning, Enterprise IT Governance, Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture, Integration Architecture, Security Architecture, Solution and Application Architecture, Technology and Platforms
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments
• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
• Experience working in a relevant industry is helpful, but not required
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven analytical, planning, organizational and technical and skills
• Ability to work with developers in an outsourced environment