Enterprise Architect

*6-month contract

*2 positions availabale

*Hybrid (2 days/wk on-site)

Position Summary

The enterprise architect proactively and holistically helps and guides enterprise leaders, 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 helps the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving sustainability. The enterprise architect will have significant business knowledge of multiple industries, such as healthcare, financial services, the management consulting environment, and how technology can be introduced to enable workflows and functionality.

Key focus areas include data and analytics, the Internet of Everything (IoE), artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent hospital architecture, security, cloud technologies, applications, frameworks, and governance. Collaborates with internal and external partners to ensure that technology decisions and blueprints align with the overall Enterprise strategic plan within IT. Partner with business architecture, enterprise architecture, product capabilities, and other senior IT leaders to plan the overall innovation pipeline, including capital investment and the associated business case.

The enterprise architect must have the following:

• Facilitate alignment between business and IT across the democratized IT landscape.
• Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships.
• Adapt to changing business and operating models.
• Analyze trends and disruptions and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes.
• Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning.
• Support various operating models, such as project-centric and product-centric.
• Communicate the value of enterprise architecture and its portfolio of services.
• Drive the evolution of the EA team services and operating model.
• Coach and mentor other architects, product owners/managers, and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking.
• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.
• Comfortable, experienced, and accomplished at working with business executives, able to respond professionally and diplomatically.
• Highly collaborative and supportive of business and its ideals and strategies.
• Highly innovative with an aptitude for foresight, systems thinking, and design thinking.
• Vendor- and technology-neutral; more interested in achieving targeted business outcomes than in personal preferences or vested personal preferences of other business and IT leaders.

Responsibilities

Supports Formulation of Strategy and Guides Execution (30%)

• Works with Business and Leadership Stakeholders to Develop Strategy

• Proactively identifies and helps the organization respond to disruptive forces. Understands the business s economic and financial levers susceptible to digital transformation to guide investment decisions effectively.
• Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends, and the technology industry.
• Provides perspective on the organization's readiness to change and supports business strategy formulation.
• Uses planning-driven, design-driven, and learning-driven approaches to construct future- and current-state business models.

• Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution through a collaborative, supportive, and consultative manner.
• Drives the organization s digital business strategies and balances innovation and growth.
• Translates and guides the execution of business strategy to achieve the organization s targeted business outcomes by developing an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture.
• Constructs technology-enabled business and operating models and provides viable options and visibility into execution issues.

Builds the EA Value Proposition and Structures Business Engagement (30%)

• Builds EA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.
• Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology, and other components of the enterprise operating model and their relationships to one another and the external environment.

• Provides consultative advice, adapted to stakeholder context, to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about their organization's next business and operating model, using technology to make that change happen.
• Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers, and product owners in a business-driven conversation.
• Leads a collaborative community of architects and works with a strategic committee to guide transformation and resolve any conflicts in IT delivery and enterprise business outcomes.

Orchestrates the Delivery of Business Outcomes (20%)

• Develops the Business Architecture

• Positions the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensures that the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate, and execute business strategy.
• Works with business architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes.
• Help guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy.

• Leads analysis of the business s future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement, driving the business toward its targeted outcomes.
• Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures, and cultural changes necessary to support the EA architecture.
• Ensures that the EA organizational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results.

Plans and Manages the IT Portfolio (20%)

• Supports Portfolio Modernization and Develops Roadmaps

• Maintains the alignment, integration, and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects, and products as they evolve over time.
• Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
• Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams.

• Supports Solutions Design and Delivery

• Develops and applies (MVA) minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles, and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance.
• Facilitates a collaborative relationship across the architecture community, product management, and product delivery teams.
• Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools, and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
• Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.

Qualifications

• Master s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis, or a related field of study or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 12 years collaborating with the business leaders in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant
• A minimum of 15 years of experience in at least 5 disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, data & analytics, applications, cloud, middleware, information analysis, database management, or operations in a multitier environment.
• Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills. Organizationally savvy, with situational and contextual intelligence of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.
• Balances the long-term ( big picture ) and short-term implications of individual decisions and organizational goals.
• Estimates the financial impact of EA alternatives and applies multiple solutions to business problems.
• Rapidly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Ready to think, behave, and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization s digital business strategies.
• Understands and speaks the language of the business. Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

SKILLS

• 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 of security best practices and compliance requirements related to storage infrastructure, such as HIPAA, GDPR, or PCI
• Should have a certificate in TOGAF or Zachman. If not, should pass within 3 months of employment.
• Should have certification, either Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect - If not, should pass within 3 months of employment.
• Understanding of 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 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 exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Strong consulting skills in targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management, and business development.
• Mastery of enterprise architecture components, business & IT principles, and processes.