Enterprise Architecture (EA) Lead

UXBERT Labs

is a digital and user experience design agency in the GCC. We are looking for a candidate to provide EA cross-domain governance, assurance and architecture frameworks, and internal consultancy across all digital solutions delivered to benefit our clients.

Responsibilities

Managing and delivering the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture that is cross-domain and cross-functional, based on business and IT strategy and requirements

Promoting the business value of EA as an enabler of strategy formulation and as support for technology innovation, which drives the organization's top and bottom lines

Establishing EA as a service (EA-as-a-Service) capability to drive EA across multiple sectors and disciplines internally and externally

Executing the plan for the enterprise architecture based on business and digital strategy and requirements using a business-led approach, with the ability to build business cases that help secure funding for different initiatives

Building business capabilities and assessing the maturity of the architecture landscape with gap analysis, extending this to internal management and external consultancy

Building architecture libraries of capabilities, skills, and tech inventory; supporting a plan to close the skills gap while finding the balance between technical, behavioral, business, and operating model skills

Building value streams and leveraging viable system models to design effective organizations

Overseeing EA practices, governance, continuous improvement, and ongoing refinement activities, using EA to shape portfolio management and programme management

Managing the documentation of all architecture artefacts and analysis work, with the ability to justify the EA artefacts' value through ROI, highlighting direct and indirect benefits

Supporting and delivering on solution architecture as capacity within the team demands

Supporting the Technology Leadership Team to build and maintain relationships with other business units and clients, orchestrating the delivery of critical digital projects, and contributing to the overall delivery of the digital portfolio

Requirements

Knowledge and experience working with 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 TOGAF 9, Zachman, and NORA

Working experience of the different types of agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level

Understanding of existing, new, and emerging technologies, and processing environments

Ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals, applying business capability and value stream thinking when solving problems

Working experience in public cloud (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)

Excellent understanding of what AI can do and should do in the business domain

Ability to translate business needs into EA requirements and practices

Working knowledge of Customer Value Management

Ability to apply multiple solutions to business problems that are cross-domain and cross-functional

Ability to rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies

Capable and comfortable with balancing time between foundational EA and vanguard EA efforts concerned with business and operating model design, technology innovation, speed, agility, and flexibility to achieve a unified and flexible EA that meets the organization's needs

Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, APIs, microservices, event-driven IT, and advanced analytics, including mobile, custom development, RPA, and ERP systems

Cross-domain and cross-functional experience to effectively bridge multiple business areas and technologies

Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation

Strong leadership skills

Excellent analytical and technical skills

Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences

Excellent planning and organizational skills

Knowledge of all components of holistic digital service

Knowledge of business process engineering principles and processes

13 years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and / or business analysis

10 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 multitier environment

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

Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Other

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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