Enterprise Arch. Strategic Advisor

We are currently seeking a Enterprise Arch. Strategic Advisor to join our team in Pune, Mahārāshtra (IN-MH), India (IN).

**Enterprise Architect**

**Pune Remote
**Overview**

We are currently recruiting an Enterprise Architect to join our highly capable EA & Consulting team. If you are a passionate technologist with a diverse background, if you are obsessive about the use of technology to solve business problems, and if you are strongly customer focused, we can provide an excellent platform to develop your career while helping our clients tackle some of their biggest challenges.

We are seeking someone who has worked in roles across a wide range of technologies. It is a varied role, and you could be working on multiple user segments, industries, and technology domains. This is a great opportunity for you to play a pivotal role in shaping the technology landscape for our customers, working within our sector verticals including Tier 1 banking and financial services organisations, global telecommunication and media organisations, public services, insurance providers, automotive businesses, and manufacturers.

**The Opportunity**

It starts with amazing people, challenging projects, and a work environment that supports the creation of tangible solutions that make an impact.

You will be responsible for influencing and shaping solutions. To take advantage of this opportunity you will need to be a highly experienced individual with the ability to transform and enhance client vision and outcomes into a winning solution.

**Responsibilities**
- Engage with senior client technology leaders and establish credibility as a trusted advisor.
- Provide advisory services for technical and business strategic initiatives and/or roadmaps.
- Lead or participate as a team member in a multi-disciplined global delivery team.
- Manage client expectations and create project deliverables as required
- Provide consultative sales support as required
- Assist with the development of intellectual properties, service offerings, and related materials as required
- Participate in and lead strategic projects including oversight of business transformation activities. Assist with recruiting activities as required.

**Key Skills**

**Advisory Skills**:

- Establish Practices for Engineering functionsThis is NOT a delivery role.
- Defining frameworks for Modern Software development (Cloud ready/Cloud Native/RESTful APIs/Microservices etc.) Methodologies around supporting functions for the core engineering activities (Security frameworks/ architectural governance / Quality Assurance / 12 Factors/ etc.)

**Consulting Skills**:

- Personality (articulate; listener; communicator) [do-er role] + [creator (architectural concepts; design concepts) role]

**Engineering Skills**:
Hands-on skills in at least a few core technologies.

**Core experience a **nd Qualifications**
- Significant experience in IT Services with at least 5 years as an Enterprise Architect/Strategic Advisor and client-facing consulting role.
- Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with “C” level clients.
- Demonstrable track of successful technology engagement delivery.
- Familiarity with a sub-set of industry domains (Banking, Financial Services, Automotive, Logistics, Transport, or Hospitality Industries).
- Understanding of management consulting and IT frameworks (Zachman, DODAF and/or TOGAF) to align business and IT organizations.
- Experience working with business stakeholders to capture business strategies and goals
- Lead workshops, decision meetings, collaborative sessions, and executive briefings with senior customer stakeholders.
- Experience developing strategic road maps for clients incorporating business and technology drivers
- Solution design or technical architecture expertise delivering £5m - £20m+ technology projects
- Experience with Enterprise Architecture tools such as Alfabet, LeanIX, Abacus, or similar.
- Understanding of technology delivery models and governance models (including cloud and digital transformation).
- TOGAF® certification or equivalent
- Be a Microsoft Azure, and/or GCP, and/or AWS Certified Practitioner
- In-depth knowledge of at least two industry verticals including regulatory and market trends (Financial, Manufacturing, Transportation, etc.). Degree in related science/technology/business discipline from an accredited institution or equivalent experience required.

**Benefits**

Our people are the most critical component of our long-term success and their health and well-being are our priority. You will enjoy a comprehensive, locally competitive benefits package

**About NTT DATA Services**

**_NTT DATA Services is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants without regarding to race, color, religion, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran