Enterprise Architect at Interswitch

About the Job

• The Enterprise Architect will be responsible for setting the direction and establishing the approach of an organization's operations, improving the IT infrastructure, and optimizing their business operations.
• The Enterprise Architect works to align and integrate the organization's strategy and programs with associated technology components.

Responsibilities
Strategy & Planning:

• Evaluating internal functions, business development strategies, and IT processes and suggesting improvements.
• Creating business architecture models to reflect the organization's strategies and goals and creating and implementing business visions and goals.
• Suggesting ideas to reduce costs in IT and business leadership.
• Providing business architecture and systems processing guidance.
• Ensuring the efficiency, security, and support of the organization's goals.
• Creating methods for compliance architecture, such as data storage, metadata management, and change control.
• Determining and implementing build versus buy strategies, mentor personnel, and views of the overall business strategy.
• Supports all architectural disciplines and champions architectural initiatives.
• Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as support all architectural disciplines under their direction.
• Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains.
• Aligns architecture strategy with business goals.
• Defines, explains and advocates technology strategy.
• Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Designs and implements short- and long-term strategic plans to ensure Interswitch’s infrastructure capacity meets existing and future requirements with regard to employee usage and application hosting

Operational Management:

• Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solutions.
• Lead teams in developing technology plans.
• Provides strategic consultation to business and IT leaders.
• Lead adoption of the enterprise architecture framework adoption
• Work with business leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy.
• Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Develop a communication plan for architecture at the enterprise level.
• Direct the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends.
• Ensures recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment.
• Approves the tools and components used within the enterprise.
• Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress toward architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.
• Drive architectural changes through incident management by proposing relevant changes while collaborating with the respective teams for deployment.
• Lead the change manager team towards continuous improvement of the change management process and ensure the deployed changes are in line with business needs.
• Develop standards and frameworks towards aligning with business.

Qualifications

• University Degree in the field of Computer Science or 'STEM' major (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) or related field.

Experience(s):

• Minimum of 8 years experience in IT and business/industry including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructural planning and operations
• Experience in working with multiple, cross-functional teams or projects and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders
• Requires exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture, business re-engineering principles and processes, and basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting
• Experience with cloud and container technology.