Digital Transformation Architect

The role of Enterprise Architecture Leader is to provide architecture and design leadership for complex digital transformation programs. This involves handling large-scale deals, aligning IT services with enterprise goals, and creating a competitive advantage.

You will bring best practices to advise business and IT stakeholders on the overall governance structure in overseeing and executing the transformation program. You should have experience in designing, building, and operating large-scale, complex systems and be familiar with their opportunities and pitfalls.

Key responsibilities include:

• Develop solutioning, pursuit management, and deal handling as part of enterprise architecture.
• Obtain certifications in TOGAF, AWS, Azure, and Cloud technologies.

As an Enterprise Architecture Leader, you will provide strategic planning, balancing short and long-term objectives/priorities with organizational goals and constraints. You will analyze the business impact that certain technical choices may have on a client's business processes.

Required skills and qualifications include:

• 20+ years' experience in the IT industry, with at least 10 years in leadership roles involving enterprise architecture, solution design, and engineering for large-scale, complex transformation programs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead E2E architecture for large-scale, multi-year, multi-vendor digital transformation programs involving multiple pillars.
• Excellent understanding of software engineering concepts, SDLC processes, non-functional design, sizing, and capacity planning, deployment design.
• Experience dealing with partners, tool, and technology vendors for new solution rollouts or troubleshooting issues.
• Familiarity with concepts like DevSecOps, Test Automation, Configuration Management, SRE, AIOps, Value Stream Management, Intelligent Automation.
• Knowledgeable about business and technology trends, including use of Data and Analytics, Automation, and AI in IT and Business transformation.
• Good understanding of open-source and COTS licensing models.

Benefits include:

• Accountability for end-to-end Solution Architecture and Sizing for large deals.
• Decision-making on Technology stacks, balancing between best technology and price.
• Review, Optimize & Sign-Off Technology Solution and Sizing for integrated solutions comprising multiple service lines.
• Extract and Build Differentiators for large deals from existing services delivered to customers and work across internal Verticals, Service Lines, and Delivery Organization.
• Articulate and Present the solution to the customer in discussions and bid defense.
• Critical review of contract, delivery plans, and application design in context of architecture and design implications, and subsequent implementation considerations.
• Conduct system architecture evaluation and collaborate with project management and IT development teams to improve the architecture.
• Deliver Enterprise Architecture blueprint and advise on setup associated artifact hierarchy and ownership (such as functional, non-functional design, data models, product design, user experience, process, security, network, deployment design) as relevant for the programme.
• Establish architecture and design governance including standards, best practices, guidelines, and associated compliance processes.
• Strategic planning including balancing short and long-term objectives/priorities with organizational goals and constraints.
• Analysis of the business impact that certain technical choices may have on a client's business processes.
• Evaluation of project constraints to find alternatives, alleviate risks, and perform process re-engineering if required.
• Collaboration across multiple functions and geographies with client-facing roles interfacing with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Reviewing and prioritizing changes to existing platforms to ensure they always follow the latest best practices and make appropriate technology choices.
• Ensuring common technology, design practices, and infrastructure are used when applicable; and facilitate the reuse of code, components, and proven patterns; Influence common modelling, design, and coding practices.
• Continual researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed.
• Bringing industry best practices to bear in making recommendations to relevant stakeholders on the overall governance structure in oversight and execution of the SDLC, tools usage, AI, automation as well as recommendations on skill set requirements, organization structure, tools, processes, reporting, and systems support.