Enterprise Architect

Job Description

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The Enterprise Architect is an advanced subject matter expert, responsible for leading the design of complex managed service solutions and driving the strategic vision and direction for the company’s largest enterprise clients.

This advanced subject matter expert is accountable for creating the blueprint for managed service solutions and provides direction to clients and the industry at large as to where they should be driving their technology investments.

The Senior Enterprise Architect brings together technological domain expertise and business acumen to design complex IT strategies and roadmaps in line with clients’ key business objectives, key performance Indicators (KPIs) and service level agreement (SLA).

What you'll be doing

In this role you will:

• Leads the design of large and complex managed service solutions by driving services teams, to provide client solutions that support client business outcomes, integrating technology and service design across multiple domains, delivery units, or geographies.
• Works closely with the sales team to participate in and proactively drive the presales process with clients. This may include conducting meetings, writing proposals, proposing solutions, and delivering presentations.
• Shares responsibility for win strategy, is responsible for translating clients’ business strategy and desired business outcomes into an IT strategy/roadmap, positioning our end-to-end portfolio with a focus on landing a service-related solution, and end-to-end solution design.
• Leads complex solution design with clients and leads/supports the internal service and technical teams to enable business outcome and requirements mapping.
• Integrates services, processes, applications, data, technology through a design process across multiple domains, delivery units, or geography.
• Contributes to the knowledge base of company's development and services by sharing best practices with internal teams and clients.
• Uses understanding of the client’s business, industry practices, and breadth of knowledge on the full solution portfolio and consulting to personalize the solution in line with the client’s SLA, KPI, and measured need.
• Develops business case and end-to-end roadmap to optimize IT Operations and Measured Business Value across multiple solution areas.
• Interprets, influences, and develops IT strategies, as well as implement the execution of the strategies.
• Defines architectural principles and applies them to influence architectural outcomes and guide governance.
• Develops As-Is, Vision, FMO and To Be service architectures, identifies gaps and develops transition roadmaps.
• Manages large application and technology portfolios, using frameworks, lifecycle, and various other models and tools.
• Develops both strategic and solution architecture using the Enterprise Architecture domain abstraction.
• Design and implement full solutions including Services Portfolios and Lifecycle Management solutions.
• Synthesizes current and future technology trends with client strategic imperatives to create compelling value-driven solutions for clients.
• Leads the integration of services (if the lead is not conducted by the Services Architect), process, applications, data, technology through a Managed Service design across multiple domains, delivery units, or geography.

This role is perfect for you if you:

• Advanced vertical, applications and business design process lead architect that brings together client and multi-domain (tech and geo).
• Advanced knowledge across Enterprise Architecture, Managed Services, Service Management consulting, and multiple solutions areas (Business Units), and across domains, delivery units, and geographies.
• Advanced understanding of how technology solutions are influenced and affected by various business scenarios.
• Ability to take the service schedules and SLA developed through the value proposition development phase, develop them to contract quality, and deliver them for inclusion in the schedules of the master services agreement.
• Ability to develop a service transformation architecture to deliver the transformation business, investments, activities, deliverables, schedules, and risks across all service delivery.
• Advanced understanding of a broad spectrum of IT systems and application types.
• Advanced expertise in Information Security and Quality management applying security principles.
• Advanced knowledge to Information Architecture, Data, and Modelling techniques.
• Advanced knowledge of service delivery models, technologies, process improvements, reference architectures, design thinking, architecture frameworks.
• Advanced vertical knowledge of the required industry.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Technology or Engineering or Computer Science or related field.
• Certification and expert knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (such as, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA); preference in TOGAF, additional SOA will be considered as an asset.
• Certification and expert knowledge of IT Service Management methodologies (ITIL, COBIT, etc.).
• Scaled Agile certification advantageous.
• Advanced experience in a consulting and IT role within a large scale (preferably multi-national) technology services environment.
• Advanced experience in IT operations, preferably gained within a global technology organization.
• Advanced experience in a wide variety of Enterprise Application and Process, IT Services in Networking, Data Center, Communications (including Contact Center), Security, End-User Computing and Digital Business Solutions.
• Advanced client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management and the ability to recognize opportunities for future business within an account.
• Advanced experience in integrating the solution for the project with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns, and best practices.
• Advanced business development and pre-sales experience.
• Advanced experience of the IT industry environment and business needs, combined with a strong understanding of business processes, applications, and infrastructure architecture.

Workplace type:

Remote Working

About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.

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