Enterprise Architect

-Introduction

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Momentum Money (our wellness and lifestyle rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations. We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and reward their employees and members. Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilising new platforms Momentum Metropolitan provides practical financial solutions for people, communities, and businesses.
Role Purpose

Provide guidance, road maps, principles, standards and best practices to ensure integrity and consistency across every employed or prospective implementation technology, to address current realities and future opportunities in line with the strategy of the enterprise.
Requirements

**Formal Qualifications**
- Relevant Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Information Technology qualification (essential)
- Relevant post graduate degree (desirable)
- MBA (desirable)
- BSc/BEng or equivalent IT qualification

**On the job training/qualifications**
- Relevant Architecture framework training/certification (desirable)
- TOGAF training (desirable)

**Experience**
- 7-10 years’ experience in technical leadership roles (essential)
- At least 5 years’ senior software programming (essential)
- Experience in the financial services industry (desirable)

**Knowledge**
- Full Software Development Life cycle, rolling out complicated processes
- Knowledge of underlying IT architectures and technologies
- Good Cloud and related technology knowledge and experience
- Business architectures
- Technical architectures
- Knowledge of architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, ITIL, and COBIT
Duties & Responsibilities

**INTERNAL PROCESS**
- Contribute to the ICT strategy in terms of Business, Data/Information, Applications, Technology Infrastructure Integration and Security.
- Responsible for a rigorous description of the enterprise - across systems, programmes and business areas - including its business entities, their properties, and relationships between them and the external environment.
- Ensure the architecture of the enterprise is optimised, and all Architecture Domains (Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Application arc hitecture, Technology Architecture) integrate (and inter-operate) in a cost effective manner, with minimum effort and maximum benefit to the organisation.
- Provide vision and insight to proactively assist in defining the direction for strategic IT projects.
- Recommend and participate in the analysis, evaluation and development of enterprise long-term strategic and operating plans to ensure that Enterprise Architecture objectives are consistent with the organisation’s long-term business objectives.
- Lead technical design sessions with the development teams, including the creation of class models, component models, and detailed design specifications to ensure architecture standards are followed.
- Define technical evaluation criteria for product and technology selection and determine technical approaches to ensure all architectural solutions result in a coherent system design leading to desired customer experiences.
- Share best practices, lessons and constantly update the technical system architecture requirements based on changing technologies, and knowledge related to recent, current and up-coming vendor products and solutions.
- Collaborate with all relevant parties to review the objectives and constraints of each solution and determine conformance with the industry practices.

**CLIENT**
- Provide authoritative, expertise and advice to stakeholders.
- Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to the process of negotiating objective and realistic service level agreements, monitor appropriateness and recommend adjustments.
- Define service practices which builds rewarding relationships, encourages innovation and allows others to provide exceptional client service.
- Deliver on service level agreements made with internal and external stakeholders
- Make recommendations to improve client service and fair treatment of clients within area of responsibility.
- Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service.

**PEOPLE**
- Build relationships through providing specialist know-how and leadership to others, expressing positive expectations.
- Positively influence and manage change and offer specialist support where required.
- Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas and involvement of colleagues and staff.
- Participate and contribute to a culture of work centric thinking, productivity, service deliv