Enterprise Solution Architect

Enterprise Solution Architect

You will be joining the Enterprise Architecture department within the Information and Technology Strategy division.

The Enterprise Architecture team (EA) is a multi-disciplinary group of experienced architects in charge of:

- Defining the enterprise architecture directions & standards aligned to the company strategies & goals.
- Creating business cases to develop or transform the IT capabilities supporting the business units' strategies.
- Maintaining a multi-year IT plan & technology roadmap, and providing steer for the decisions on IT investments.
- Defining IT architecture solutions (integrated process, applications, data and technology) to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture directions, and guiding the IT development teams during solution realization.

ROLE:

You take a leading role in identifying the strategies required to support the long-term objectives of a major IT function.

- You develop business cases for major evolutions of our IT capabilities and you syndicate a wide range of senior stakeholders within business and IT (up to C-level).
- You contribute to the maintenance of the multi-year IT plan and participate to the related decision making (portfolio management).
- You cope with systemsreview and assess their performance; support their professional development and enable them to optimize their contribution to the department.
- You manage, monitor and continuously improve the Enterprise Architecture processes.
- You drive the definition of architecture blueprints to clarify & refine the capabilities, the building blocks & the roadmap supporting major IT transformation initiatives.

In this context:

- You ensure a proper translation of business needs into a set of structured business process, knowledge, technology, and organization specifications that satisfy the clients' strategic and operational objectives.
- You are responsible for understanding and assessing the clients' needs, identifying issues & opportunities (incl. new & innovative technologies) and recommending appropriate solutions.

PROFILE:

- STRONG COMMAND OF ENGLISH (WRITTEN & SPOKEN)
-3-5 YEAR EXPERIENCE AS ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT (IDEALLY IN A GLOBAL/CENTRAL/GROUP ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE UNIT)
- WE NEED THE PERSON TO BE QUICKLY PRODUCTIVE >= FAST LEARNER, RESULT-ORIENTED, AUTONOMOUS, UP-TO-SPEED WITH TODAY'S THEMES (DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, CLOUD, AI, AGILE, ETC.), ABLE TO TAP ON EXTERNAL RESOURCES (OWN NETWORK, ETC.) WHEN REQUIRED.
- You have worked for more than 10 years in the IT industry and more than 5 year in the wholesale financial IT sector.
- You have worked as lead architect on large-scale transformation projects (> €10 mio) developing and deploying core transactional applications in the financial IT sector, or you have a proven experience as senior Enterprise Architect.
- You have a proven experience in setting up & applying formal architecture governance.
- You have a proven experience in leading a small team of architects.
- You can tackle autonomously all types of architectural analysis and can provide global & pragmatic recommendations adapted to the company context.
- You have a strong desire to make a difference: you are convinced that small focused cross-functional teams can significantly improve the business alignment and the value of proposed solutions in terms of TCO, risk, time-to-market and future agility.
- You are conceptual and creative: you are able to recognize common patterns or generic aspects in elements that seem unrelated at first sight, and to transpose existing solutions in a creative fashion to new situations.
- You are a strong problem-solver: you demonstrate strong analytical skills (eg breaking up & structuring complex problems into manageable pieces), you can apply them to problems spanning across multiple architectural domains, you strive for a pragmatic approach (80/20 rule) and you focus on tangible and actionable results.
- You identify the need for change and propose solutions that are innovative and have a significant strategic impact.
- You are able to work with people from different areas (Business and IT) through strong inter-personal skills (active listening, empathy, influencing) and to steer working groups.
- You are able to effectively communicate and advocate for the architecture recommendations vis-à-vis project delivery teams and senior business and IT management of the company.
- Knowledge of post-trade market infrastructures (eg CSD), knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks (eg TOGAF) and relevant experience with Agile operating models and frameworks are extra assets.