- €650 - €700/Daily rate
- Working for a high-profile Irish customer
- Hybrid working in Ireland or UK
Our client is an industry-leading software company, partnering with some of the world's biggest and well-known brands offering a top-class service and helping them grow by providing bespoke test automation frameworks, software delivery and consulting services.
Role involves:
- Working across the organization, determining the needs of a range of business units and processes.
- Strategic role in upkeeping and maintaining the organization’s IT networks and services.
- Key role in overseeing the architectural team in the design and migration of on-prem applications to the cloud.
Principal Responsibilities:
- Provide architecture expertise to drive the enterprise domain architecture vision and direction.
- Provide direction to enterprise and solution architects to help ensure best in class solutions minimising customisation, seeking alignment with the business and leveraging the support of Tech resources.
- Ensure consistency of the enterprise architecture through breadth (and where necessary depth) of knowledge. Identification of opportunities for strategic business, information, and technology change.
- Act as the bridge between Business Enterprise Architecture, Business Capabilities/Cloud & Platforms & Delivery/Product managers to ensure business, information and technology architecture are consistent. Identify cross portfolio dependencies and issues and act to resolve them.
- Support with major transformational change projects across the company and Tech, influencing to ensure the right enterprise architecture solutions.
- Ensure project/product designs are consistent with the architecture and meet both functional and non-functional requirements. Drive resolution of architecture issues throughout the project or product lifecycle.
- Provide leadership and coaching to other architects.
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent formal training; required.
- Demonstrable experience of leading complex enterprise architecture solutions.
- Senior level IT leadership, gained in a complex global organisation
- Senior business partnering, providing design support to major projects, working as a valued partner with senior stakeholders and strategic third parties across a diverse operation
- Proven track record of successful stakeholder management at a senior level, with the ability to influence and persuade across the Group or in a diverse global environment.
- Broad exposure to the full application lifecycle, ensuring effective use of industry best practice and/or methodologies.
- Awareness of and involvement in the evolution of worldwide architecture trends and practice.
- Experience of, and contribution to, applicable industry best practice, leading and shaping further development.
Essential Competencies & Skills:
- Strong leadership with a proven ability of influencing and persuading internally and externally
- Effective senior stakeholder management, balancing and finding compromises between opposing views and opinions
- Business partnering influencing, using architectural artefacts and enterprise/domain knowledge and expertise.
- Problem solving & and understanding of the broader business context (business acumen)
- Innovation - transforming industry trends into practical, cost effective, secure, scalable and supportable solutions
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken
- Eligible to live and work in the EU
Desirable Criteria
- Experience working within Architectural frameworks and standards such as TOGAF, IASA, ArchiMate or hold equivalent certifications
- Previous experience or knowledge of cloud-based technologies in particular AWS
- Experience with applying in an agile/product-centric environment. E.g., SAFe
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