The Position
The Technology and Applications Enterprise Architect reviews current and potential technologies, standards, applications, and systems to ensure the appropriate and successful use of technology in support of transforming Arch into an AI centric enterprise. They are strong enterprise architects with broad domain experience in AI, cloud application architecture, business, data and security constructs. This individual contributor role is also responsible for IT governance oversight alongside driving transformative initiatives across enterprise functions and application ecosystem.
Job Responsibilities
- Owns the Application and Technology (Application and Systems technologies) domains for Arch and drives the organizations assets from the current state to target state architecture.
- Maintains subject matter expertise in broad enterprise-wide application technologies to drive transformation across a wide spectrum of enterprise capabilities in an insurance and financial application ecosystem.
- Collaborates with members of IT to review and assess the architecture of Products, Systems, or Applications for compliance to existing standards, guidelines, or best practices.
- Collaborates with other Enterprise Architects, Domain Owners and APMs (Agile Program Managers) to ensure that any recommendations or approaches will align well from an Application, Infrastructure, and Data perspective.
- Performs in depth technical analysis, research, proof of concepts, and evaluations as required to validate that the recommendations Enterprise Architecture makes are sound and will not introduce risk into IT Execution
- Maintains an understanding of long-term company strategy and ensures that designs will enable the company to meet the changing industry/competitive demands.
- Reviews Systems, Applications, or Products and provides recommendations for improvements that will enhance the alignment to standards, best practices, or guidelines.
- Collaborates with Enterprise Architecture and other members of the wider Arch IT team to define architecture standards that drive business capabilities and optimization to create efficiency, quality and agility.
- Must be able to effectively communicate, and influence teams to do what is best for Arch without direct reporting responsibility.
- Prepares presentations, documents, diagrams, models, and other artefacts as required to communicate analysis, recommendations, or designs.
- Communicates with stakeholders at varying levels within the organization to drive our use of technology forward.
- Serves as a trusted advisor to the CTO and IT Leadership team.
- Prepares materials to support the IT Governance Committee (monthly) and IT Steering Committee (as required).
- Analyses collected data to identify what contributed to performance positively or negatively to foster a culture of continuous improvement and to drive to outcomes.
- Coordinates, projects and activities to ensure they are completed on time with limited supervision from management.
- Drive Enterprise Architecture Governance and activities across multiple business units in a federated enterprise architecture model.
- Manage Enterprise Technology and application governance data, best practices and guidelines documentation and repository structures.
Mandatory Skills
Required knowledge & skills would typically be acquired through a technology degree and 12+ years of related experience in software development, systems design & delivery. Prior experience and accountability for system and applications architectures at the enterprise level is required.
- Extremely strong and sophisticated communication skills to communicate, collaborate and build consensus across diverse group of technologists.
- Broad enterprise technology and application architecture experience with ability to quickly analyze & solution new technologies and applications.
- Strong expertise in cloud technologies for applications (Azure mandatory with optional AWS) along with good security and infrastructure understanding in the context of applications and SaaS software.
- Experience as an Enterprise Architect or senior solution architect for a large domain in a medium to large organizations is required with strong communication, collaboration and presentation skills. A software development and delivery background is a mandatory precursor to a technological career with increasing technical responsibility.
- Must be able to learn quickly and contribute across various parallel work streams.
- Ability to span high level and low-level analysis and design across different technologies for application and technology domains is required.
- Strong understanding of AI technologies and their practical application to IT operations, End User Productivity, SDLC, Corporate functions.
- Ability to understand and define Enterprise Architecture Governance data, metrics and dashboards.
