Enterprise Solutions Architect, IT

2 months ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom SUSE Full time

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SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable and secure enterprise open source solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), Rancher and NeuVector. More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power their mission-critical workloads, enabling them to innovate everywhere – from the data center to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the "open" back in open source, collaborating with partners and communities to give customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow.

We are open in our roots and open in our approach, striving to be the most trusted open innovator in the World. Openness extends beyond our technology. Our vibrant community thrives on diversity and connectivity without borders.Enterprise Solutions Architect, IT

Job Description

The Enterprise Solutions Architect is responsible for both enabling and driving the execution of IT change towards the desired business vision through articulation and promotion of capabilities, application roadmaps and depicting transition and future states.

This role will collaborate closely with senior business and technology leaders across the organization, ensuring our technology strategies reflect business goals, and the current and desired future capabilities. The role should also ensure that domain roadmaps align to the strategic vision.

Heading up the Architecture practice from within the SUSE's IT organization, this role will report to the IT Director of Strategy and lead the work and deployment of the IT Solutions Architect.

About The JobYou think long term and use your industry knowledge and understanding of SUSE's business strategy to shape the company's information technology architecture, keeping yourself continuously informed of the latest innovations, technologies and patterns and practices, enabling you to develop strategies that enhance the technology landscape. As an Enterprise Architect, you create business capability models and transformation roadmaps to facilitate discussion and decision making with senior stakeholders, driving the organization towards agreement regarding technology direction and definition of technology strategy. In collaboration with senior technology leaders, including architects from their teams, you shape a vision and define architectural strategies to translate business opportunities and customer expectations into innovative IT solutions.You promote understanding of the architecture at SUSE and are the focal point for developing an architecture strategy and maintaining architectural integrity. You define policies, standards, and practices that shape the technology strategy whilst fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.You foster a culture of delivering business outcomes sustainably and with the right level of quality from the outset, balancing the trade-off between technical debt and speed to market. You have a strong background and experience in modern cloud native architecture especially Amazon Web Service.You work in an international context with senior technology and business stakeholders and managing large-scale technology transformation and implementations with aggressive timelines. You advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices across the domain. Security is part of everyone's job. At SUSE, we practice secure behaviors first in everything we do.

About YouAn experienced architect with passion for technology and Enterprise architecture.Engage with C-suite executives, business leaders, and IT teams to translate intricate business requirements into robust architectural solutions. Facilitate strategic discussions and decision-making around technology investments and initiatives.Broad experience and expertise across multiple technical areas in several IT domains. Proven track record in designing architecture blueprints and the optimisation of them to drive development and innovation.Establish and enforce architectural standards, guidelines, and principles. Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements, industry standards, and best practices, mitigating risks and ensuring compliance. Oversees evolution of technology strategies & implementation of solutions for the whole group, identifying risks and providing necessary guidance. Lead architecture communities and mentor a high-performing team of architects and senior technical staff. Foster a culture of continuous innovation, technical excellence, and professional development.Systems thinker with a strong understanding of business needs and ability to manage a range of priorities and delegate effectively.Problem solver with a pragmatic evangelist approach.Great communicator and facilitator comfortable working across organisational and market boundaries and managing senior stakeholders. Mastery of enterprise architecture frameworks, methodologies, and tools.Extensive experience with cloud computing, data management, cybersecurity, and integration technologies.Industry accreditations or certifications which exemplify experience in Architecture, Development, Cloud, Security, Data, AI and Integration.Experience of thought leadership (e.g. public speaking engagements with known vendors and industry partners) would be useful to have. JobInformation Technology What We Offer We empower you to be bold, driving your career to create the future you want. We celebrate and reward your achievements. SUSE is a dynamic environment that is evolving rapidly, thus requiring agility, strong entrepreneurship and an open mind. This is a compelling opportunity for the right person to join us as we continue to scale and prosper. If you're a big thinker, obsessed by execution and thrive in a dynamic environment in which you can tangibly create a lasting legacy, then please apply now We give you the freedom to be yourself. You will work in a global community of unique individuals – like you – with different backgrounds, talents, skills and perspectives. A truly open community where everyone is welcome, has a voice and is encouraged to reach their full potential regardless of age, gender, race, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or any other characteristics. Sounds like the right fit for you? Click Apply to submit your resume. A recruiter will contact you if your skills match our current or any future positions. In the meantime, stay updated on the latest SUSE news and job vacancies by joining our Talent Community. SUSE Values We are passionate about customersWe are respectful and inclusive We are empowered and accountable We are trustworthy and act with integrity We are collaborative We are SUSE


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