Senior Enterprise Architect Job Description
Senior enterprise architect
provides solution architecture, systems engineering, administration and software engineering including application and data architecture expertise with physical, virtual, cloud and hybrid environments.
Senior Enterprise Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Design and build high quality software for integration projects, considering numerous factors such as the technical landscape, customer's business drivers and operations, and the schedule requirements of the multiple parties involved
Participate in relevant external standards organizations, industries, panels, Regularly communicate with users to keep them informed of current technologies and system evolution plans
Participatein selection of preferred technologies and standards
Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, and provide recommendations for adoption when they align with business needs and capabilities
Drive the design, development and implementation of operational standards and capabilities for connected services that enable highly available, scalable & reliable customer experiences
Analyze and synthesize a variety of inputs to drive the end-to-end incident management process for multiple offerings
Create, develop, and manage the deployment architecture for all applications including configuration management and risk management processes
Implement monitoring agents, metric dashboards, runbooks, logging, escalations and alerts for all applications
Cultivate relationships with business stakeholders
Develop and maintain current and future state business architecture
Senior Enterprise Architect Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Enterprise Architect
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: TOGAF, CISSP, AWS, ITIL, AXELOS, CCNP, FEAF, DODAF, III, IAM
Education for Senior Enterprise Architect
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior enterprise architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Business, Education, Information Technology, Information Systems, Architecture, Technology, Management Information Systems
Skills for Senior Enterprise Architect
Desired skills for senior enterprise architect include:
Application
Software
Hardware
Systems engineering
Enterprise architecture design concepts
Logical data modeling and physical data modeling concepts
Complex technology environments
Methodologies
Standards and best practices
Technologies
Desired experience for senior enterprise architect includes:
Experience of designing and architecting large scale solutions (APIs, middleware, Web Services, UI, etc)
You may have experience writing cloud deployed applications using Amazon Web Services and EC2
Ability to write complex jobs which can process high volumes of data efficiently
Knowledge in method driven approach to execution (TOGAF, Zachman)
Bachelor’s degree in a technical area of study preferred
Translating business portfolio strategies into current and future state architecture roadmaps and blueprints
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Senior Enterprise Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of senior enterprise architect. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior enterprise architect
- Providing technology direction and guidance to the business and development teams
- Partnering with other technology groups to set, document, and implement standards, develop and implement processes
- Ensuring alignment and feedback loop among teams as appropriate
- Participation in enterprise governance and enterprise initiatives and activities
- Provides direction and guidance to process improvement and establishes policies
- Develop and deliver sales presentations at Chief Executive Officer (CEO)/Chief Operating Officer (COO)/Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) levels for large, complex opportunities
- Performs implementation feasibility assessment to identify requirements, issues and risks
- Lead the development of future enterprise architecture
- Influence, develop and communicate strategies, guidelines, standards and solutions
- Guide development teams through the project life cycle
Qualifications for senior enterprise architect
- Strong communication skills in order to effectively communicate with and make strategic recommendations to Sr
- Technical experience with Microsoft .Net and SQL Server, Oracle, UNIX and J2EE Architecture is required
- Experience in any formal architecture framework such as TOGAF, IFW, CBM, BIAN
- Broad experience with architecting automated, virtualized, data center environments
- Expert at discovering customer business & technical requirements
- Experience with IT Service Management tools such as ServiceNow, Remedy, CMDBs/Asset discovery & management/Policy definition and enforcement
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Our growing company is hiring for a senior enterprise architect. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior enterprise architect
- Evaluating Processing Technologies for Next Generation Identification Bio and Non-Bio Subsystems
- Appling process improvements and reengineering methodologies and principles to conduct process modernization projects
- Combining significant expertise in database design, software engineering, and process modeling to design the architecture of complex, enterprise-wide information systems
- Design and lead the implementation of an Enterprise Architecture based on enterprise business requirements and IT strategies
- Help lead the creation of enterprise email system, enterprise collaboration platform, enterprise document management system, enterprise HR solutions
- Identify and analyze enterprise business drivers to derive useful business context
- Facilitate the creation of governing principles to guide EA decision making
- Help lead the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and IT strategies
- Design and lead EA implementation and ongoing refinement activities
- Lead the evaluation and selection of EA standards
Qualifications for senior enterprise architect
- Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent
- At least 8 years of experience in developing and implementing IT systems
- Must have good experience in tender contractual projects
- Must have experience in managing a team of 10 people and above vendors/contractors
- Possess good understanding of SDLC cycle
- Candidates who is a PMP certified holder will have an added advantage
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of senior enterprise architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior enterprise architect
- Play a pivotal role in development of Proof-of-concepts to understand the applicability of the technologies to address the Marketing/Business requirements
- Ensure successful handover and implementation of solution architecture to software engineering which may involve troubleshooting key customer implementation issues and demonstrate ability to drive to successful resolution
- Help identify organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture
- Help lead the development and execution of a communication and education plan for the enterprise architecture
- Liaise with project management office to help manage the day-to-day inter-dependencies of multiple project teams
- Manage work to drive to results
- Develops models and plans to drive forward the strategy, taking advantage of opportunities to improve business performance
- Real world implementations
- Demonstrates resourcefulness, energy and persistence to achieve goals despite obstacles and difficulties
- Directing the creation and review of enterprise capabilities to support the strategic requirements of the business
Qualifications for senior enterprise architect
- Knowledge of RUP will have an added advantage
- Work experience in multiple technology areas and 5+ years of relevant enterprise architecture experience in specialty areas
- Experience driving results and clarifying priorities in a busy and/or political environment valuable
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of Enterprise Architect Discipline and frameworks
- Understanding of video streaming technology
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a senior enterprise architect. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior enterprise architect
- Ensure that architecture decisions are consistent between departments and leverage opportunities for common approaches
- Help solution architects for providing solution architecture for the portfolio initiatives align with EA domain architecture guidelines, reference architecture and standards
- Lead the design and deployment of new enterprise solutions
- Research, plan, define and support enterprise infrastructure architecture
- Proactively work to progress the architecture and overall design of the Bank’s Information Systems as a corporate asset in supporting the Bank’s business objectives
- Have a high degree of focus on the end to end architecture to ensure that customer’s needs are consistently met
- Ensure all components will interoperate and provide the infrastructure to support future strategic initiatives
- You will be working closely with multiple client stakeholders, act as the lead for an Architect Team to develop the strategy for effective IT-enabled business change
- Set up and configure processing platform solutions on OpenStack
- Execute performance and accuracy tests on platforms to evaluate viability in the NGI production environment
Qualifications for senior enterprise architect
- Two (2) years of progressively responsible Enterprise Architecture experience
- Demonstrated expertise around industry best practices in the various aspects of IT, technology trends, enterprise operations knowledge and the ability to develop solutions to implement key business strategies
- Provides leadership and expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns and IT practices
- Proven ability to establish rapport and drive consensus and change at all levels of the organization
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Information Systems, Engineering or a related technical field plus five (5) years of solutions architecture experience
- Communicate with cross functional peers to coordinate solution development signed teams
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a senior enterprise architect. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior enterprise architect
- Assumes a program manager role for technologies or business areas
- Analyzes portfolio of technologies and processes for gaps and weaknesses, building future state models and creating roadmaps and migration plans to get there
- Leads architectural assessments and recommendations of key or potential technologies
- Engages actively in the technology industry and understands how evolving technologies can benefit AAG
- Defining the target IT Architecture
- Providing technical guidance to IT programs and projects to facilitate compliance with the IT Architecture
- Ensuring enterprise-wide integration of reengineering efforts
- Utilizing a global perspective on the systems development process to bring simplified solutions to complex problems and uses superlative communication skills to guide project team members
- Providing technical leadership on designs, platform sizing, and infrastructure system design
- Coordinating activities with superiors and client personnel to resolve technical and/or business issues and ensures the successful delivery of the project requirements
Qualifications for senior enterprise architect
- Perform Analysis to define “To-Be” Architecture necessities through collaboration with the HRC CIO and documented HRC mission, vision and goals
- Must have 5 years Enterprise Architecture / Senior Level Development Lead experience leading complex, enterprise-class, and multi-system integration environments
- Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in computer science, computer information systems, engineering, or management information systems is required
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems or military experience
- Have proven experience in delivering solutions, technology and architecture design and support to major ICT services at enterprise level, including making the case for change
- Have experience managing technical personnel including engineers, information security consultants, database designers and administrators, and infrastructure support personnel