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The Enterprise Architect collaborates with business and technology teams to ensure that technology solutions are aligned with the targeted business strategies and expected outcomes. The Enterprise Architect also plays a role in defining the future state IT strategy and ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and practices. Their role involves working with and guiding the organization’s architects to build and promote enterprise standards, roadmaps, and strategies that align with the organization’s goals and objectives.
What You Will be Doing:
Helps to provide guidance and design standards for the architecture. Areas in scope include: Business Architecture, IT Strategy Facilitation, Strategic Portfolio Development and the Technical Architecture Domains.
- Provide professional expertise, has broad technical, analytical, and communication skills that reflects knowledge about industry best practices and emerging trends for Meijer.
- Align Architectural Runway to SAFe Agile Development. Provide leadership and oversight to partner within the organization to ensure that the architecture defines and demonstrates the interoperability, scalability, and portability of applications. Strives to achieve optimum proficiency in all aspects of enterprise solutions and services inclusive of: business process, end user experience, applications, databases, integrations and infrastructure.
- Collaborates with architects to achieve strategic and operational objectives relating to the Enterprise roadmap.
- Ensures alignment to security architecture standards and secure coding practices.
- Provides leadership to develop and oversee production activities of architecture documentation including: architecture roadmaps, foundation principles, schematics, guidelines, enterprise standards, technology roadmaps, interoperability, communications, governance and compliance.
- Develops and facilitates the implementation of architectural policies and standards, procedures and templates for use in architectural design, service transition and sustained enterprise solution operations.
- Defines and integrates culture of ownership for architecture standards and design patterns.
- Analyzes overall effectiveness of architectural decisions to ensure best practices are incorporated to successfully meet the strategic goals of the company.
- Provides input to the annual budget reviews for technology investments to ensure alignment to strategic goals for major projects.
- Apply professional knowledge and skills to review/evaluate vendor proposals to determine adherence to architectural guidelines, specifications and investment strategy.
- This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You'll Bring With You:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Analysis or related discipline.
- 8 years’ experience in at least two IT disciplines in a multi-tier environment including but not limited to technical architecture, network management, application development, package delivery, middleware, database management or operations planning.
- Ability to disambiguate complex ideas and communicate in a simple and compelling way to a wide variety of audiences.
- Knowledge of business, technology, industry and market ecosystems.
- Thinks, behaves, and acts in an innovative consulting manner to drive organizational strategies.
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies and processing environments.
- Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes.
- Drive the evolution of the EA teams services and operating model.
- Breadth of knowledge in technologies, platforms, and domains.
- Strong interpersonal skills including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
- Strong analytical and technical skills.
- Excellent written and oral communications skills.
- Excellent planning and organizational skills.
- Knowledge of the components of a technical architecture.
- Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes.
- Basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting.
- Understanding of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate the politics.
- Ability to understand the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term perspectives of situations.
- Ability to translate business needs into technical architecture requirements.
- Ability to assist in the estimate financial impact of technical architecture alternatives.
- Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to business problems.
- Quickly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technology.
