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Responsibilities
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The Enterprise
Architect will have primary responsibility for designing
Architecting Solutions for a variety of enterprise initiatives, and
aligning these solutions with the overall enterprise reference
architecture and roadmap. This position will report to the Director of
Architecture, setting the enterprise architecture vision and tying it to
the business’ objectives.
The Enterprise
Architect will be responsible for setting policies, standards, and
guidelines for the IT organization’s environment including lifecycle and
asset management, security, and technology governance. The Enterprise
Architect will be part of the enterprise architecture team and will be
responsible for developing and maintaining the technical, application,
information, process, and infrastructure views of the architecture. The
Enterprise Architect will maintain close working relationships with key
stakeholder from our business and technology management, to understand
our business and and technical goals as well as providing a clear
roadmap to ensure IT and the line of business are integrated and meeting
each other’s expectations, and communicating this roadmap to all
impacted stakeholders is key to success.
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Responsibilities |
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Role Specific
Responsibilities
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Architecture: Define, and maintain the vision and guidelines for
enabling and implementing software architecture in the BSS/OSS,
Integration, Data, System Processes, Application and Security
domains.
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Ensure that there is a disciplined process for future architecture
requirements including standardization.
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Assessment of the issues and risks related to architecture,
infrastructure, and security of assets to provide the best, well
balanced solution architecture.
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Develop a “big picture” vision of architecture strategy in an
environment where customized, autonomous decisions have been made.
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Responsible for guiding the Lifecycle Planning team to ensure the
health of our systems and technologies.
Leadership
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Establish strong relationships with the business and IS groups
within our organization, teaching and driving improved communication
of the architecture vision and the needs and issues as they relate
to architecture, infrastructure, and security.
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Provide ongoing evaluations of technology solutions and capabilities
to ensure alignment with business objectives identify areas of risk,
while monitoring the current environment, potential improvement
areas, and the financial implications of those decisions.
Strategic
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Qualifications |
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Bachelors Degree required and MBA or
Masters in Computer Science is preferred
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10+ years Information Technology
experience
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3-5 years of relevant industry
experience to include enterprise architecture, Business and
operational support systems and ideally, the wireless
telecommunications industry
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Must be a strong communicator,
presenting technical topics in a business-oriented fashion to
non-technical audiences, building partnerships throughout the
organization, in addition fluency in technical language and ability
to communicate to technical audiences is key.
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Must be comfortable in a dynamic,
fast-paced, and ever changing environment
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Strong Interpersonal/relationship
management skills
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Excellent written and verbal skills
ability to express complex technical concepts effectively, both
verbally and in writing required
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