Head of Enterprise Architecture

1 month ago

Sunderland, United Kingdom GEM Partnership Full time

**Ref**: LRA312

**Job Type**: Permanent
**Salary**: £80,000 to £85,000pa
**Location**: Sunderland, Tyne & Wear
**Closing Date**: 22/05/2024

The Role:
Our client is a prominent property related organisation in the South Tyneside area who have focused heavily over a number of years on driving business transformation through technology. They are currently looking to appoint a Head of Enterprise Architecture, a role which 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.

You will be responsible for designing, overseeing, and governing the implementation of all architectural principles and practices within the Group. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders, analysing long and short-term requirements, and ensuring the function aligns with best practices whilst being scalable and secure

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.

The Person:

- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or considerable 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.

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.

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