Head of Enterprise Architect

Job Summary

The role is responsible for defining and driving the organization's business and IT architecture strategy and governance. This position leads a team of Enterprise Architects (covering technical, business, and domain expertise) to enable enterprise-wide architecture functions, ensuring alignment across multiple domains and technologies. The focus is on reducing complexity, improving cost efficiency, mitigating risks, and enhancing business capabilities.

Job Description

• Responsible for driving and aligning organization's business & IT architecture strategy and governance.
• Leading teams of Enterprise Architects (technical EA, Business EA, Domain expert EA) responsible for enabling enterprise-wide architecture function, involving in activities across different functional domains and technologies, supported by solution architects of domain expertise, focusing on reducing complexity, cost efficiencies, convergence matrix, reducing risk and/or improved business capabilities.
• Advisor to stakeholders for business and IT assisting in defining and delivering high quality enterprise capable solutions (which include analyzing stakeholder requirements based on current state architecture, identifying gaps to create and develop practical roadmaps, defining and operating architecture governance process to ensure change initiatives to aligns with the bank vision, while considering business, technical and delivery constraints.
• Provide thought leadership on architectural or complex or other topics to develop a forward-looking view of current and emerging technologies and their impact on the Enterprise Architecture.

Qualifications

To qualify, individuals must possess:

Formal architecture certification (TOGAF or equivalent) with min. 15 years of experience in related fields, of which min. 10 years as Enterprise Architecture experience

Must have:

• Good technical solutions on in-depth Banking business and Banking domain, translating Banking business capability to technology capability.
• Good understanding of different technology systems and software development methodologies across banking business
• Comfortable in working in an environment which is vendor-intensive
• Ability to communicate complex topics in an understandable way using a level of detail and terms appropriate to the situation
• Good team player and able to drive consensus amongst stakeholders with conflicting viewpoints and objectives
• Capability to think conceptually and identify patterns across seemingly-unrelated situations