Enterprise Architect
The Role:
The Enterprise Architects provide strategic IT guidance, road maps, principles, standards and best practices. They must be focused on enabling business and ICT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization.
The Enterprise Architect is responsible for enterprise architecture strategy, specifically focussed on ensuring the alignment of ICT infrastructure, solutions and services with the strategic objectives and goals of the Organisation to maximise investments that uplift IT capabilities and, ultimately, the experience of all end users. They will work on Enterprise Architecture activities including Architecture Governance, and across the Enterprise Architecture domains including Business, Information, Application, Technology and Research Technology Architecture.
Requirements:
SKILLS
- Extensive analytical skills to review emerging trends in the higher education sector, such as smart machines, internet of things, wearable computing, and higher education technologies.
- Exceptional analytical capability; can combine and organise information into meaningful patterns, differentiate key elements from the irrelevant, identify underlying relationships, causes and effects; and combines information to form conclusions and general rules.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to convey complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, in a matter that is easily understood, authoritative, and actionable for the business.
- Proven ability to provide strategic advice and operational leadership on the evolution of the University's strategic plan and architecture- covering enterprise, technical, information and applications architectures to ensure the evolution of the University's ICT is well planned, articulated and economically justified
- Proven ability to apply TOGAF, Archimate and other architecture frameworks to produce and communicate architecture to stakeholders
EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor or Master Degree in computer science or information systems, or a related field or equivalent extensive work experience.
- Extensive experience in strategic enterprise architecture planning & implementation
- Experience in architecture area of specialisation (business, information, digital experience, technology, research technology and integration) within a complex context.
- Extensive progressive leadership experience in leading cross-functional teams and enterprise wide programs, operating and influencing effectively across the University
