Employees in this job function are responsible for:
- Translating desired business capabilities into solution concepts and models, and their requirements (functional and technical).
- Designing strategies, technology patterns, and service structures.
- Providing architecture and information management guidance and governance processes.
- Ensuring enterprise capability integration by describing and evaluating opportunities for integration and alignment of information and process flows, selecting appropriate implementation strategies, and defining technology mechanisms required.
(Applies to: enterprise level, portfolio level.) - Compiling, developing, and aligning architectural models of current and proposed capabilities and solutions across the enterprise to support strategy and investment decisions, portfolio management, program and project management, solution and service design and development, and service management.
(Applies to: enterprise level, portfolio level, program/project level, technology level.) - Driving information integration, information standards, and information management through capability and value analysis and assessment.
(Applies to: enterprise level, portfolio level, program/project level.) - Delivering architecture artefacts (business, information, data, process, solution, application, service, technology, infrastructure architectures) to solution, service, and technology delivery initiatives, programs, and projects.
- Setting architecture and design direction (technologies, patterns, design principles, development frameworks) in cooperation with project management and system design/development.
(Applies to: program/project level.)
Key Responsibilities
- Provide direction and support to project teams by translating business capabilities into well-defined projects/programs with clear objectives and deliverables.
- Visualize and communicate architecture concepts, principles, strategies, and models for programs, initiatives, and domains.
- Facilitate architecture discussions with cross-functional business sponsors and product lines to ensure alignment.
- Participate as a member or facilitator in relevant business/IT governance processes.
- Ensure alignment between architecture projects and standards and related IT projects and plans by working with appropriate IT and business management.
- Develop recommendations to improve the business value of IT projects and plans.
- Set direction and approve future state architecture standards, guidelines, blueprints, and roadmaps for/across business functions.
- Drive architecture-related research to further mature architecture standards, guidelines, blueprints, and roadmaps.
- Direct and approve innovations and/or prototypes based on research and approve recommendations on architecture, tools, methodologies, and/or processes.
- Facilitate architecture governance and ensure adherence to architecture standards.
- Obtain buy-in for architecture standards, guidelines, blueprints, and roadmaps from appropriate business and IT leaders.
- Promote benefits and value of architecture and architecture management to business and IT senior management.
- Provide guidance on strategy and planning in support of overall prioritization and portfolio planning.
Skills Required
- SAP ERP
- SAP S/4HANA
Experience Required
- Specialist Experience: 10+ years in IT; 4+ years in concentration
Education Required
- Bachelor’s Degree
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