Senior Consultant, Lead Enterprise Architect Job in Colt Technology Services Group Limited

The Lead Architect proactively drives the enterprise through transformation and optimization initiatives. The Lead Architect s scope of activities includes

• helping the organization deliver transformation initiatives to grow revenue, optimizing costs and mitigating risks
• understanding and applying existing, new and emerging technologies to transform and optimize business and operating models that has been agreed with business leaders
• support principal architect to make business leaders understand, monetize and operationalize existing, new and emerging technologies
• support principal architect to facilitate the decision-making process and providing actionable recommendations on initiatives to help the organization drive targeted business outcomes.
• drive the actions agreed with business leaders to help the organization with targeted business outcomes.
• is responsible for driving the initiatives the organization chooses to invest in and help business leaders enable their future-state business capabilities
• focussed and aligned to one or more transformation program(s) and set of supporting business application(s)
• engaging with other lead architects and solution architects for knowledge sharing and industry insights
• motivate the architecture team empowering solution architects with coaching and mentoring solution architects to build a creative and safe learning environment.

Support to Formulate Strategy and Drive Execution

• Support principal architect formulate IT strategy for the assigned initiatives by facilitating business and IT alignment through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner.
• Support principal architect to recommend technology investment decisions based on various disruptive forces and the business s economic & financial levers that affect transformation.
• Drive the agreed actions with senior business leaders to help the organization with targeted business outcomes
• Support principal architect with necessary perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate for the assigned initiatives
• Provides standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to help the architecture review board (ARB) assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.
• Analyse the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement to formulate part of the strategy

Drive Innovation

• Scans for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect assigned initiatives.
• Analyse the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determines their potential impact on the enterprise.
• Identifies technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enables business strategy and deliver expected business outcomes.
• Drive opportunities that business agreed to invest in to enable desired business capabilities

Manage and drive the IT Portfolio

• Works closely with the (PMO) project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with the promised outcomes throughout the project or product lifecycle.
• Provide guidance, advice and oversight to various in-flight and planned projects to enable them to achieve desired business outcome
• Contribute to IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT estate, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around technological platforms for assigned initiatives
• Leads focused analysis of the IT environment related to assigned initiatives and supporting business applications to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions.
• Analyse and define an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams.
• Lead and conduct RFPs for major areas of agreed IT change that are required to achieve required business objectives
• Collaborates with infrastructure, security, data and business process teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture for the assigned initiatives
• Supports product managers in EOL (end of life) product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire products, services or systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).

Orchestrate the Delivery of Business Outcomes for assigned initiatives

• Works with organizational stakeholders for identified business initiatives that the organisation has chosen to invest in to drive targeted business outcomes
• Leads analysis of the business future-state capabilities and future vs current IT environment for capabilities organisation has chosen to invest in and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business forward.
• Provide guidance, advice and oversight to the project and product governance for initiatives assigned
• Accountable for documentation of all architecture design and analysis work for assigned initiatives
• Provide support and guidance to solution architects and application architects navigate through solution designs that will meet desired business outcomes
• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.

Assist in Developing the EA Practice

• Custodian of architectural governance and standard relevant to the assigned initiatives
• Creates reference architectures focused on detailed integrations, major systems and dependencies between business and IT for the major business initiatives assigned.
• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).
• Contributes to the maturing of the enterprise architecture practice into a centre of excellence.

Build and Maintain Relationships

• Provides consultative advice to organizational stakeholders with actionable recommendations to make decisions about achieving the targeted business outcomes for their organization, using technology to make that change happen.
• Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of product decisions for the assigned initiatives