- Company Name
- psd group
- Job Title
- Enterprise Architect
- Job Description
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**Job Title**: Enterprise Architect
**Role Summary**
Contract (6 months) Enterprise Architect – Generalist, responsible for shaping technology direction, governance, and roadmap in a large, complex enterprise IT environment. Works with IS leadership, domain architects, and business stakeholders to translate strategy into coherent IS solutions across business, data, application, and infrastructure domains.
**Expectations**
- Deliver architecture solutions aligned with business strategy.
- Provide strategic, tactical, and operational guidance to support transformation initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and performance standards.
- Act as a trusted advisor, influencing stakeholders and driving best‑practice adoption.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Capture and articulate business objectives; translate into IS strategy, principles, and solution options.
- Define target IS landscape and support roadmap development.
- Collaborate with domain and solution architects on architecture design and governance.
- Document regulatory, security, and compliance constraints for initiatives.
- Advise on emerging technologies and platform adoption.
- Develop and promote technology standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns.
- Support initiative roadmaps, ensuring security, reliability, and performance requirements are met.
- Champion best practices and architectural standards across delivery teams.
**Required Skills**
*Architectural & Governance*
- Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.).
- Architecture modeling (conceptual, logical, physical).
- Enterprise and solution architecture experience.
*Business & Strategic*
- Business strategy analysis and requirements translation.
- Systems thinking, dependency & trade‑off identification.
- Stakeholder influence, facilitation, conflict resolution.
*Technical*
- Data architecture: models, standards, integration, analytics platforms (Microsoft Fabric experience a plus).
- Cloud computing: hybrid & cloud‑based design.
- Business Intelligence / Analytics.
- Integration patterns, security architecture, risk management.
- Network, infrastructure, hosting models; contingency & disaster recovery.
*Professional*
- High accountability, results orientation, ability to thrive in ambiguous environments.
- Strong communication and documentation skills.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (Master’s preferred).
- Enterprise architecture certification (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.) preferred.
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