Chief Architect - IT

Business Architecture :

- Cultivate relationships with business stakeholders.

- Maintain in-depth knowledge of strategic business plans.

- Develop and maintain current and future state business architecture.

- Information System & Technology Architecture

- Design and oversee implementation of end-to-end integrated systems.

- Deliver architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency inline with business strategy.

- Cultivate relationships with IT management.

- Maintain in-depth knowledge of the organization's technologies and architectures.

- Develop and maintain current and planned state architectural blueprints.

- Develop and maintain a aspirational architectural road map for the enterprise.

- Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals and strategies.

- Gain organizational commitment for enterprise level architecture and infrastructure initiatives.

- Provide architectural direction to Enterprise Architects, Business Architects and Solution Architects.

- Develop architectural metrics and reports for the executive team, business and IT management.

Data Architecture :

- Oversee the design and implementation of enterprise data and metadata structures.

- Create a plan to integrate business systems and workflows in support of business strategy.

- Develop and enforce best practices for master data management and integration.

- Architectural Programs & Initiatives

- Initiate and deliver architectural programs that align IT with business strategy.

- Deliver requisite program documentation including program charters, schedules, requirements documents, specifications, design documents and testing strategies.

Research & Development :

- Initiate and deliver technology evaluations and recommendations.

Architecture Consultancy :

- Maintain in-depth knowledge of IT industry best practices, technologies, architectures and emerging technologies.

- Provide architectural consulting to programs, projects and initiatives.

- Support business and IT strategic planning.

- Support product development teams.

- Act as the focal point for enterprise architecture and IT standards.

Architectural Governance :

- Develop, communicate and deploy Enterprise Architecture Governance processes.

- Develop and communicate enterprise technology standards and policies.

- Review new and existing program/project architecture for compliance with IT standards, policies and architectural plans.

- Review IT procurement plans for compliance with IT standards and architectural plans.

- Document exceptions to architectural standards.

- Ensure that project documentation captures significant architectural decisions.

- Ensure that architectural governance is a fair, consistent and transparent process.

- Identify architectural risks and propose alternatives and solutions.

Supervisory Responsibilities :

- manage a team of senior enterprise architects

- manage a team of senior business architects