Enterprise Architect

**Enterprise Architect** Who we are and what we do?**

World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent, non-profit global research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human well-being. Our work focuses on building sustainable and livable cities and working towards a low carbon economy. Through research, analysis, and recommendations, World Resources Institute puts ideas into action to build transformative solutions to protect the earth, promote livelihoods, and enhance human well-being.

WRI India has the capacity to convene key stakeholders, and forge strategic partnerships with governments, business, foundations, civil society organizations, institutes and NGOs, to scale-up solutions that can bring game-changing results for the sustainable management of natural resources in India.

***About your role**:
WRI seeks a highly motivated and independent person with strong technical research and communication skills to work as Enterprise Architect for Operations. The position can be based anywhere globally with preference for India, US, or Africa and will work for WRI’s Information Technology Department.

The Enterprise Architect for operations will be responsible for helping improve work efficiencies through internal knowledge sharing of content and constituent interactions. The role would not work on content development nor knowledge sharing systems that are intended for external audiences, but may support teams as needed to manage content flow from internal to external systems.

The Enterprise Architect will support the IT department in developing and delivering training materials, related project plans, and solution implementations. The role will facilitate and help implement OneWRI Initiative in all offices globally.

International travel will be expected.

**How your day will unfold**:

- ** Enterprise Architecture Global Strategy Development and Delivery**
- Lead the development of the Enterprise Architecture guard-rails, strategy, and roadmap and ensure integration with the overall IT and enterprise strategic plans through coordination management.
- Lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technology and solution architecture requirements; analyzing industry, technology and market trends to determine their potential impacts on the Institute.
- Lead and participate in the development and management of high-level projects or initiatives to close the gaps between the current and future-state architectures, including technology road maps, proposed change projects and target metrics.
- Define a clear vision that enables business innovation for the organization through the use of technology.
- Ensure alignment between business and IT needs and objectives while focusing on best practices, awareness of emerging trends and striving towards innovative solutions that create a competitive advantage.
- Assess technologies and implement technical architectures to increase business agility and manage complexity.
- Lead, develop and coach the Enterprise Architecture team to continually improve IT capabilities necessary to increase performance of the organization. Provide timely and constructive feedback on a regular basis to ensure employees have a clear understanding of their work, roles and the business.
- Work with employees on their career development. Provide leadership, coaching and direction to the Enterprise Architecture team.
- Manage performance issues when necessary.
- Ensure that all Enterprise Architecture services and processes (including those of external service providers) are conducted in line with policies and applicable standards, legislation, and regulations (e.g. TTB, Sarbanes-Oxley, GDPR, HIPAA etc.)
- Work with the IT leadership team to plan future skill needs to acquire and develop the appropriate mix of business, data and process knowledge, technical skills and competencies.

**Qualifications and Requirements that we seek**:

- 12 years of experience in business and data analysis and process flows
- 12 years of experience in at least two IT disciplines or 5 years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture, business analysis or business strategic planning.
- Workday or Oracle ERP experience is must.
- Experience of leading qualification and implementation of enterprise-wide business solutions such as Microsoft O365, ERP, EPM, HCM, etc. for a global organization.
- Strong ability to represent and document business processes, interactions and data flows, use cases, and test cases.
- Strong knowledge of solution development methodologies (e.g. Agile)
- This position requires many skillsets from project management, requirements gathering, testing training, and post deployment support.
- Knowledge of applicable practices and laws relating to data privacy and protection.
- Deep and practical understanding of the IT architecture discipline, processes, conce