Head of Enterprise Architecture

3 weeks ago

Sunderland Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom Hays Full time

A leading Social Housing organisation in the Northeast are looking for an experienced Head of Enterprise Architecture to join them due to growth

As Head of Enterprise Architecture, you will proactively and holistically guide the leadership team, Systems managers, product owners and various distributed delivery teams through transformation and optimisation initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. Activities include helping the organisation achieve targeted business outcomes related to service excellence, optimising costs, mitigating risks, and improving sustainability. This role will focus on realising the business strategy by tailoring the IT strategy and enterprise architecture of the organisation.

You should have considerable hands-on experience in driving and delivering technological change at pace against a background of organisational transformation and working across organisational boundaries with changing and challenging priorities. You will be skilled at communication at a strategic level and play a key role in setting organisational objectives, influencing policy, and leading on technical and business change

What we are looking for:

Qualifications and Experience

• 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.

• Certifications may include those from the Certified Enterprise Architect Professional (CEAP), The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF®) and The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

• Extensive relevant working experience in a similar role in a highly regulated and complex industry.

• Significant experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant.

• Significant experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in complex and multidisciplinary environments.

Skills & Knowledge

• (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.

• Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.

• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.

• Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.

• Understanding of various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric and different types of agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.

• Awareness of existing, new, and emerging technologies, and processing environments.

• Effective leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.

• Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business development.

• Mastery of all components of enterprise architecture, business & IT principles, and processes.

• Excellent analytical, planning, and organisational skills. Organisationally savvy, with situational and contextual intelligence of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and challenges.

• Balances the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions and organisation goals.

• Estimates the financial impact of EA alternatives and applies multiple solutions to business problems.

• Rapidly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technologies.

• Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organisation’s digital business strategies.

• Understands and speaks the language of the business. Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

This is a full time and permanent position

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