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 ensure overall architectural direction: Control designs in projects, BAUs, ensure architectural direction and technology standards are followedKey Accountabilities1. 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 organisation 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 socialised 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 architecture3. 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