Head of Enterprise Architecture

**Head of Enterprise Architecture - Dublin**

**12 Month contract, Hybrid working (4 days work from home, 1 day Dublin HQ)**

An International Opensource Consultancy known their continuous Integration platform allowing companies to build, deploy, test and release on demand via their cost-effective platform are seeking a Head of Enterprise Architecture to lead their internationalenterprise Architecture team responsible for delivering Enterprise Architecture for clients Enterprise Infrastructure & Cloud estates

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide architecture expertise to drive the enterprise domain architecture vision and direction
- Provide direction to enterprise and solution architects to help ensure best in class solutions minimizing customization, seeking alignment with the business and leveraging the support of Tech resources
- Ensure consistency of the enterprise architecture through breadth (and where necessary depth) of knowledge. Identification of opportunities for strategic business, information and technology change
- Partner with enterprise and solution architects to ensure adherence to architectural principles, standards, best practice and roadmaps
- Act as the bridge between Business Enterprise Architecture, Business Capabilities/Cloud & Platforms & Delivery/Product managers to ensure business, information and technology architecture are consistent. Identify cross portfolio dependencies and issuesand act to resolve them
- Support with major transformational change projects across the company and Tech, influencing to ensure the right enterprise architecture solutions
- Collaborate through a trusted business partnering approach, proactively leveraging key relationships to ensure business, information and technology enterprise architecture is strategically aligned
- Ensure project/product designs are consistent with the architecture and meet both functional and non-functional requirements. Drive resolution of architecture issues throughout the project or product lifecycle
- Build key supplier relationships, where third-party work or packages involve significant architectural design decisions
- Provide leadership and coaching to other architects
- Deliver across several business/technical domains and value-streams, the breadth and complexity of which will vary depending on experience

**Requirements**:

- Previous experience or knowledge of Cloud based technologies, in particular AWS
- Experience working within architectural frameworks and standards such as TOGAF, IASA, ArchiMate or hold equivalent certifications
- Demonstrable experience of leading complex enterprise architecture solutions
- Senior level IT leadership, gained in a complex global organisation
- Senior business partnering, providing design support to major projects, working as a valued partner with senior stakeholders and strategic third parties across a diverse operation
- Proven track record of successful stakeholder management at a senior level, with the ability to influence and persuade across the Group or in a diverse global environment
- Awareness of and involvement in the evolution of worldwide architecture trends and practice
- Experience of, and contribution to, applicable industry best practices, leading and shaping further development
- Experience of operating across multiple countries and cultures is desirable
- Strong leadership with a proven ability of influencing and persuading internally and externally
- Effective senior stakeholder management, balancing and finding compromises between opposing views and opinions
- Business partnering influencing, using architectural artefacts and enterprise/domain knowledge and expertise
- Problem solving and understanding of the broader business context
- Flexibility in a rapidly changing and developing environment, with the ability to work under pressure
- Innovation - transforming industry trends into practical, cost effective, secure, scalable and supportable solutions