Short Description

Commercial Bank Innovation Services is hiring an Enterprise Architect to join our dynamic team in Information Technology in Commercial bank . 

Key Accountabilities

• Define and establish enterprise architecture principles, standards and guidelines, and procedures for architecture governance.
• Perform gap analysis to identify architecture inefficiencies and provide recommendations to drive strategic alignment, and an effective, modernized and simplified technology portfolio. 
• Develop architecture models demonstrating how data, applications and technology interoperate within the organization. 
• Lead the technology innovation effort within the bank by identifying and researching leading edge, value-adding solutions that are consistent with the bank’s innovation strategy and priorities. Collaborate on Proof of Concept activities to prototype and prove opportunities. Recommend applications of such technologies to future product architectures
• Create artifacts that document organizational assets, standards and frameworks.
• Translate business priorities into requirements for each Enterprise Architecture domain and develop the architecture roadmap. 
• Ensure compliance and technical integrity by establishing processes to monitor compliance with architectural standards.
• Partner with business and technical teams develop optimal solution approaches to address business problems.

Other Accountabilities

• Work with executives from various groups to provide architectural recommendations & guidance as well as executive-level presentations. 
• Participate in the system specification review process to ensure system requirements can be translated into valid software architecture.
• Provide architectural expertise & domain knowledge to advise & guide senior leaders.
• Actively participate in setting technical direction of the styles of computing. Proactively identify and implement strategies to improve reliability, leveraging automation wherever possible.
• Seeks to integrate digital methods for agile, rapid prototyping, and for business involvement.
• Leverage metrics and analytics to gain insight for benchmarking, planning, design and management 
• Develops a deep understanding of organizational complexity to build strong rapport with the appropriate matrix areas for the construction and delivery of the solution

Skills

Requirements

• 7-10 years of experience designing and implementing technology related initiatives. 
• 7-10 years’ experience in Enterprise/Business Architecture development using frameworks such as TOGAF/Zachman/BIAN. 
• Extensive experience partnering with business and IT to develop an integrated architectural approach. 
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques. 
• Experience Decommissioning Monoliths and Creating Microservices Architecture • Extensive knowledge across architecture domains.
• Experience of understanding, evaluating, and recommending changes to business process. • Excellent organizational, problem-solving, and negotiation skills required. 
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills. • Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to analyze complex situations, learn and synthesize large amounts of information quickly. 
• Excellent negotiation abilities with peers and all levels of leadership
• Understands the strategic technical direction of: Middleware, Continuous Integration and Deployment, Testing, Systems Management, Enterprise Data & Access Layers, Pertinent Styles of computing.

Education And Qualification

• University Degree at Bachelor or preferably Masters level
• TOGAF 9.1/Zachman/BIAN

Competencies

Adaptability/Flexibility

Creativity/Innovation

Decision Making/Judgment

Dependability

Initiative

Integrity/Ethics

Problem Solving/Analysis

Education

Master degree in Information Technology