IT Enterprise Architect
Summary
The IT Enterprise Architect oversees the design and alignment of enterprise information and business architecture, ensuring IT strategy supports company goals. They optimize infrastructure, standardize processes, and manage risks while defining architecture domains and training employees on IT best practices and tools.
- Managing the development of the enterprise information and business architecture;
- Aligning IT Strategy planning with company business goals;
- Optimizing information management approaches through an understanding of evolving business needs and technology capabilities;
- Promoting & delivering shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flows;
- Ensuring that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business IT strategies;
- Coordinating with the IT Department to provide a consensus based enterprise solution that is scalable, adaptable and in synchronization with ever changing business needs;
- Discovering, revalidating, and documenting IT policies, procedures and evaluating their alignment with organizational vision and strategies;
- Managing risks associated with integration, data, and IT architecture planning and/or deployment through appropriate standards and policies;
- Defining and documenting the baseline and target architectures of four architecture domains, i.e., business, data, application and technology and provide for the gap assessment;
- Developing and training the Organization’s employees in IT related subject matters;
- Improving architecture frameworks in order to define, design implement simplified, standards-based, service-oriented IT architectures;
- Providing expert advice on industry and application trends in analyzing and planning current and future IT needs guidance on complex architecture challenges;
- Ensuring that architecture principles and standards are consistently applied;
- Providing definitions and introductions on the use of software development tools and methods to enable continuous integration, continuous deployment automated testing capabilities;
- Ensuring responsibility for the creation and communication of documented standards and practices regarding development, application instrumentation, integration architecture;
- Has to have the TOGAF 9 Certified Enterprise Architect