Enterprise Architect

The ideal candidate will have a strong architecture and software engineering background, will have led teams of engineers or other architects and enjoy a client-facing role to senior stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

• Define the enterprise architecture for a high-profile government or private sector portfolios.
• Define the architectural roadmap for the portfolio, including target architecture and transitional states.
• Investigate and thoroughly understand the business processes, capabilities and highest priority user needs.
• Investigate and thoroughly understand the current live applications and systems.
• Ensure that the scope, context and constraints are documented and accepted.
• Identify, engage and enfranchise stakeholders.
• Facilitate the making of portfolio-level decisions, ensuring that they are made on the basis of the best information and are aligned with stakeholder needs.
• Capture and interpret input from technical and domain specialists (and represent this accurately to stakeholders as needed).
• Define and document strategies, standards and guidelines to direct the build and deployment of systems across the portfolio.
• Ensure that architectures meet the system quality attributes.
• Help ensure that agreed upon architectural principles and standards are applied to the finished system or products.
• Provide architectural and technical leadership, including leading and mentoring other architects.

Essential

• Excellent knowledge of Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks and techniques, including TOGAF.
• Excellent knowledge of architectural and technical governance.
• Excellent knowledge of architecture, design patterns, archimate and UML
• Good knowledge of open source and open standards.
• Excellent knowledge of cloud platforms and offerings, including AWS.

Desirable

• Good knowledge of market leading vendor products and solutions.
• Good knowledge of common integration techniques and approaches.
• Good knowledge of non-functional drivers for design.
• Strong technical background – excellent experience with JEE, Java, Web Services, REST.
• Quality Assurance skills to assess quality and completeness of deliverables.