Director - Enterprise Architect - Financial Services

Director - Enterprise Architect - Financial Services

Vault named this company a top 10.  This new group will help transform complex business problems into improved business solutions.  You must have the following to apply:

• Must have experience with a Tier 1 or 2 advisory consulting firm.
• You must be a US Citizen or US Resident
• Must have recent and deep experience in Financial Services vertical.
• Ability to deliver appropriate Enterprise Architecture Governance process tools and Governance models
• Expereince in blueprinting, application rationalization, architecture governance, project quality assurance, and building and/or improving the Office of the Architect.
• Heavy BPM / ECM experience

Business Systems Integration is about providing end-to-end technology solution to solve our client's complex business problems. Business System Integration Solutions effectively transform existing processes and information system investments into new and improved business capabilities:

• Enhance IT responsiveness as well as business performance through modern integration approaches and technologies (Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management)

• Streamline business processes and provide real-time visibility into their performance

• Reduce development cycles and maintenance costs while improving quality

• Institutionalize knowledge and methods to enable continuous improvement, performance gains and consistency

• Provide end-to-end Enterprise Architecture visibility through application portfolio rationalization

• Provide a robust User Experience capability tied to the latest Internet Technologies

Enterprise Architecture (EA) encompasses the translation of business priorities into actionable technology plans to maintain the proper alignment of IT with the business. 

Enterprise Architects lead clients through business-driven technology transformation and therefore have a range of skills from business process engineering to technology architecture as well as project management and strong verbal and written communication skills.

Engagements include blueprinting, application rationalization, architecture governance, project quality assurance, and building/improving the Office of the Architect for client EA organizations.

Knowledge Preferred:

Demonstrates extensive knowledge of and/or leading client-facing Enterprise Architect projects that specialize in blueprinting, application rationalization, architecture governance, project quality assurance, and building and/or improving the Office of the Architect, which includes the following:

• Enterprise Architecture recommendations, including the development of the architecture reference model for the client environment and the selling of architecture recommendations to clients;

• Development and implementation of appropriate Enterprise Architecture Governance process tools and Governance models

• Design and process review sessions that leverages knowledge of industry expertise;

• Development of the appropriate 'Enterprise Architect 'As-Is' and To-Be' architecture based on Product and Business requirements, including leading, working and managing an architecture project teams that make, and/or contribute directly, recommendations for the appropriate architecture approach;

• Development of business processes, business applications and database design that leverages extensive knowledge of systems engineering, Cloud computing, and/or of the following architecture tools--Systems Architect, TROUX, ARIS;

Skills Preferred:

Demonstrates extensive ability and/or a proven record of success with leading Enterprise Architecture engagement projects that specialize in the areas of blueprinting, application rationalization, architecture governance, project quality assurance, and building and/or improving the Office of the Architect, which includes extensive abilities to utilize the following:

• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF); Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Design (Enterprise Service Bus); Office of the Architect & Governance Design; and latest architecture technologies

• Process Engineering, including BPMN and/or BPMN 2.0 Certification

• HTML,; C; C#; .NET; UNIX; Windows Java; JavaScript; XML; Open Source Java Frameworks; Eclipse

• Database storage procedures, queries and table design; cloud computing; and/or VISIO