Head of Corporate Enterprise Architecture

Head of Corporate Enterprise Architecture (m, f, d) 100%

Project: We are looking for a senior IT executive to proactively and holistically guide our International client through transformation and optimisation initiatives. The scope of activities includes helping the organization grow revenue, optimizing costs and mitigating risks. He or she focus-es on understanding and applying existing, new and emerging technologies to transform and optimize business and operating models. The focus of the role is to help the organization plan, design, innovate, orchestrate, facilitate, navigate and invoke the digital enterprise.

The ideal candidate will be Open, engaging, agile, energetic, mature, resilient and a charismatic Leader with an excellent ability to drive significant change.

Your Responsibilities:

• Manage the Enterprise Architecture practice : Lead the development of a value proposition and execution of a communication and education plan for the enterprise architecture practice.
• Promotes 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.
• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business strategy and requirements.
• Lead the creation and maturing of the enterprise architecture practice into an internal management consultancy.
• Plans and manage a talent pool of domain architects that works with EA and non-EA related disciplines to deliver the goals, objectives and outcomes of the organization.
• Formulate Strategy and guide Execution: Understands disruptive forces and the business’s economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation to effectively guide technology investment decisions. Facilitate business and IT alignment through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organisation’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth. Formulate translate, advocate, support and execute business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes.
• Facilitate innovation: Assess disruptive forces impacting the organization and identify technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enables business strategy.
• Provide practical advice and best practices to overcome these challenges and successfully deliver the expected business out-comes. Detail potential competitive threats from digital enterprises that are generally considered outside of your traditional realm of competition.
• Plan and manage the IT portfolio: Present gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT estate, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
• Lead analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. Lead the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams

Your Technical Capabilities:

• 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.
• Ten or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis.
• Ten 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
• Very good know-how of ERP Systems and Very good general IT application and IT infrastructure know-how
• Excellent knowledge of SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.

Your Leadership Competencies:

• Very strong influencing skills paired with a high level of resilience and agility
• Very good people management skills
• Very good ability to create a positive and engaging environment
• Self-driven, ambitious and entrepreneurial approach, and can also challenge others
• Practical in approach to problem solving and decision making

Languages:

• English – Fluent (Written and Spoken)
• German – would be of an advantage

Reference no.: 921204KS
Role: Head of Corporate Enterprise Architecture
Location: Aargau and Surrounding areas
Workload: 100%
Start: 01.04.2022
Duration: 6 months, with possible extension