Job description
• Create and maintain As-Is and To-Be strategies and system landscapes
• Lead and collaborate with peer architects to recommend domain-level convergence strategy & target architecture that supports Bill of IT goals
• Provide thought leadership and innovation in the planning, design, and creation of domain architecture constructs (e.g. reference architectures), and deliverables (e.g. standardized work, common initiatives)
• Provide architectural costs, benefits, and risk management (including operations, security)
• Define and develop architecture solutions
• Communicate strategic vision and detailed architecture representations
• Work with the Enterprise Data Architect to develop a domain-level Data Management Program
• Develop, socialize, and publish architectural deliverables (As-Is & To-Be environment strategies, system landscapes, application connectivity methods and frameworks, decomposition diagrams)
• Support the release team by reviewing global Block-point releases and advising of negative impacts based on the architectural roadmap
• Document standards for common data objects, and data formats
• Participate in reviews of technical/product evaluations
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and guidance to project teams (e.g. review checklists, architecture starter kit collateral, integration requirements, tradeoff analysis)
• Author change requests for new standards, and deviations from standards
• Provide cost benefit and risk management as required.

Qualifications
Recognized expert in Enterprise Architecture development and management
• Proven track record IT management or IT consulting with experience in financial services and/or insurance industries
• Proven experience in examining and re-engineering business and IT processes, formulating policy, and developing and implementing new strategies
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent facilitation, negotiation, and consensus building skills
• Communicate effectively with a wide variety of people including senior management
• Knowledge of project management principles, practices, techniques, and tools
• Experience working on a geographically dispersed team
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Expert knowledge of data integration design principles in a complex computing environment
• Demonstrated ability to build consensus and promote standards, and design principles to project teams
• Expert technology research and analysis