Enterprise Architect

Role: Enterprise Architecture

Experience: 15 - 25 Years

Location: Bengaluru

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining the strategic architecture, legacy coexistence and where capabilities should be implemented to ensure end-to-end flows and avoid costs in duplicate implementations.
• Lead and develop the strategic architecture perspective on prioritizations of domain work and its consequences in order to reach the company's strategic outcomes
• Responsible to develop the architecture view of the domain product and technology roadmap to reach its outcomes.
• Drive and develop the Enterprise Architecture practices and apply the architecture guardrails through the product and engineering teams in order to empower them at scale
• Lead the domain architecture in Enterprise Architecture in order to keep together the customer value chain.
• Drive domain agenda and identify cross-domain dependencies in the roadmap and prioritizations, as part of the domain leadership team, in order to invest and deliver on an optimal digital agenda.
• Drive, lead and resolve the big and hard problems that are common across teams in the customer value chain to enable speed and flexibility.
• Responsible for how a domain will engage and integrate with external ecosystems, including Inter customer in order to gain speed and flexibility in development.
• Responsible for defining, developing and performing technical guidance and assessments in acquisition activities to ensure that investments fit into the technology landscape.
• Continuously keep updated in innovations and how they can be applied in the domain and the overall customer value chain to enable technology or practice leaps forward.
• Lead, inspire, develop and manage co-workers in order to secure a high performing team and promote growth.

Requirements & Skills:

• Formal qualifications in Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of experience of leading engineering and architecture teams.
• Minimum 10 years of experience designing and building Internet-facing software systems.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture.
• International working experience from companies operating with e.g. eCommerce in global markets, preferably within the retail industry or consumer package goods/manufacturing.

Ideal Candidate:

• Extensive knowledge of Enterprise Architecture in an engineering organization.
• Deep business knowledge of a domain.
• Extensive knowledge of designing practical and effective architectures at massive internet scale.
• Deep knowledge of omnichannel, eCommerce and retailing.
• Extensive knowledge of designing and building Internet-facing software systems.
• Extensive stakeholder management skills.
• Extensive knowledge of change management and the role of organizational culture in transformation.