Enterprise Architect

Job Purpose - The Enterprise Architect leads initiatives using project management best practices and industry architecture frameworks. The Enterprise Architect leads design efforts, defines end-to-end architectures, oversees, and performs research studies and presentations that include recommendations, and instructions for proposed implementations; formulating logical descriptions of problems; and recommending optimum solutions. - The job holder building an enterprise architecture management framework (EA): Building an overall architectural framework, technology standards, and design methods for all technology fields. - The job holder ensures overall architectural direction: Control designs in projects, BAUs, ensure architectural direction and technology standards are followed Key Accountabilities 1. Building general EA framework: - Build general EA framework to meet Bank's business strategy - Build technology standards, design methods in each period to meet Bank's business strategy - Develop technology directions and plans for key technologies such as Cloud, Customer-centric architecture and Digital. - Define reference enterprise architecture patterns for each key technology to support the organization wide vision and individual business vertical strategies. 2. Ensuring general architecture orientation: - Develop and maintain a group wide enterprise architecture framework (as is and to be) to ensure that the overall digital strategy and vision is maintained consistently and socialized across business verticals on a regular basis. - Provide architectural guidance to multiple agile teams and across product portfolios and collaborate with relevant IT stakeholders to help drive the transition towards the target picture - Assess and/or approve solution architectures to ensure the consistency with architecture standards and strategy - Support teams across business verticals to execute the roadmaps in projects lifecycle while piloting key technologies (until the delivery). - Review architecture in line with plan, assess level of compliance following standardized architecture 3. Other duties - Participate in assigned technology projects and communicate with stakeholders across the IT and business to ensure that technology projects and initiatives support roadmap direction for shared platforms - Participates and effectively contributes to the IT portfolio management practice including framework, policies, procedures, and processes. - Enable transformation of technology in the Bank through introduction of new technologies or retirement of obsolete technologies and dealing with related risks - Perform other tasks assigned by management