Job Title: Enterprise Architecture Senior Manager
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
• Provide effective leadership to a motivated team of Enterprise Architects. Coach, mentor, and further develop the team to high performance in delivering EA services with a strong customer service focus.
• Fulfil the Lead Architect role in the Enterprise Architecture team with responsibility both as an enterprise architect practitioner and as methods champion.
• Define and oversee adherence to Enterprise Architecture principles that guide technology decisions.
• Develop, communicate, and maintain a long-term vision for IT Enterprise Architecture and underpin the vision with EA strategies to deliver same with support and collaboration from the business via IT Business Partners ensuring the EA strategies meet the wider business needs.
• Support the development of a cohesive roadmap for Data Management in the organisation, working with the business to create same.
• Develop technology strategies and detailed sub-strategies to meet the future needs of the company, by seeking to maximise the benefits of data assets and technology focused initiatives.
• Review the utilisation and benefits of IT enterprise architecture investments and realise delivery of same to support the corporate strategy and business plans.
• Modelling the technical landscape to analyse the alignment of business capabilities with delivered technology and IT solutions.
• Ensure IT capital programs stay aligned to the Companies technology strategy, detailed sub-strategies and EA roadmaps while optimising use of existing components and capabilities across the technology landscape.
• Participate in the evaluation/selection of technology solutions, where required.
• Build strong relationships with the various IT teams within the IT function with the aim of optimising cooperation, maximising efficiencies, and supporting initiatives.
• Participation in Supplier Relationship Performance reviews, leading on discussions of strategic value and innovation perspectives in supplier performance evaluation, as well as supporting driving optimal value in supplier contractual negotiations.
• Lead governance activities associated with ensuring overall EA compliance.
• Define and execute the IT innovation processes through the EA team. Ensure the team has the tools and processes to foster and drive the IT innovation efforts.
• Be a positive influence for change and improvement by driving adoption of emerging technologies balancing greater cost efficiency and platform flexibility, usability, and security.
• Drive a customer-first agenda across IT General Duties and Responsibilities
• Collaboration with key internal stakeholders across the business.
• Responsible for promoting and delivering health and safety commitments across the business and its supply chain, reinforcing positive behaviours, and delivering health and safety objectives and requirements to the highest industry standards.
• Provide visible leadership for your team, coaching and developing them to achieve their full potential and deliver business objectives, promoting collaboration and highlighting the behaviours that are expected from everyone in the team.
• Other duties as required.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
• Formal certification and/or equivalent experience in architecture disciplines, processes, concepts, and best practices such as TOGAF, ITIL, ISO: 27000 and COBIT is desirable
• Relevant bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration or other related field (or equivalent work experience
• Seven + years’ relevant experience with a minimum of five years in an IT Architecture role.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in the water, utilities or similar industries is desirable as well as 3+ years working at a senior manager level.
• Excellent leadership and people skills required, and a demonstrable ability to attract and develop a high performing committed team.
• You will have significant leadership and change & transformation experience ideally in a similar utility, regulated industry or multi stakeholder environment
• Able to work to deadlines and adapt to changing conditions and ambiguity generating effective and pragmatic solutions to new situations and problems as they are presented.
• Can quickly establish credibility and respect and build strong working relationships.
• Stakeholder Management and the ability to interact and influence effectively at all levels, both internally and externally
• Excellent communicator with the capability to handle complex and difficult situations with thought and confidence
• Strong negotiation skills with win/win mindset.
• Financially and commercially astute.
• Experience of supporting policies, systems and controls and driving the implementation of progressive policies.