Head of Enterprise Architecture
The Head of Enterprise Architecture is responsible for establishing a comprehensive enterprise architecture vision and developing the strategic roadmap for the Bank’s technology landscape and operations.
The role ensures that technology solutions and architectural decisions are aligned with the Bank’s overall business objectives, while identifying and enabling new digital opportunities. The position provides architectural leadership across business, information, solution, and technology domains, supporting the Bank’s current requirements and future capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a long-term strategic roadmap for the architecture of the Bank’s IT systems and technology landscape.
- Establish, develop, and maintain enterprise architecture policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines, ensuring consistent application across the organization.
- Lead the Enterprise Architecture function, define team responsibilities, monitor performance, and support the development of team capabilities.
- Oversee IT business continuity plans and related technology considerations.
- Prepare periodic performance reports and monitor relevant team SLAs and KPIs.
- Monitor emerging technologies and developments across application development and information technology to identify opportunities relevant to the Bank.
- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into effective technology solutions.
- Lead the design and modeling of architectures that support project implementation, development, and ongoing operations.
- Work closely with solution architects to establish scalable and adaptable architectural solutions through collaborative decision-making.
- Lead and facilitate the Architecture Review Board to assess projects and ensure alignment with established architectural standards.
- Develop and communicate technology roadmaps to ensure alignment between IT priorities and business requirements.
- Identify and communicate digital opportunities to business stakeholders.
- Incorporate a customer experience perspective into Enterprise Architecture activities and decisions.
- Facilitate digital strategy decisions and provide guidance on digital business models.
- Define Enterprise Architecture decision-making authority and governance, while ensuring appropriate compliance with established architectural standards.
- Ensure Enterprise Architecture governance provides effective direction, guidance, and oversight.
- Balance enterprise-level risks with the need for operational flexibility and agility.
- Communicate Enterprise Architecture direction to business and technology leadership to secure alignment and support.
- Conduct gap analyses and develop IT investment roadmaps that reflect the current technology landscape and its ability to support future business capabilities.
- Lead assessments of the IT environment to identify critical deficiencies and recommend appropriate improvements.
- Lead the development of Enterprise Architecture implementation plans based on business requirements and relevant technology strategies.
- Develop and implement architectural standards and Minimal Viable Architectures through the Enterprise Architecture governance framework.
- Define clear roles and responsibilities to support effective and timely decision-making.
- Strengthen collaboration between the Enterprise Architecture community, Transformation Office, and software development teams.
- Partner with implementation teams to ensure adherence to Enterprise Architecture principles and effective use of shared technologies and tools.
- Support faster value realization and reduced time to market.
- Coordinate with infrastructure teams to ensure alignment with the Enterprise Architecture framework and support required architectural updates.
- Carry out responsibilities and directives assigned by direct management.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or another relevant discipline aligned with the requirements of the role.
- 8–14 years of overall professional experience, including at least 6 years of relevant experience in the field.
- Relevant professional certifications are preferred/required as applicable:
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
Required Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities
- Strong experience across Business Architecture, Information Architecture, Solution Architecture, and Technical Architecture.
- Experience in one or more areas including business architecture, information engineering, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management, or operations within a multitier environment.
- Proven experience developing and maintaining Enterprise Architecture roadmaps.
- Experience designing, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions, including technologies such as VMware and Citrix.
- Comprehensive understanding of hardware, software, applications, and systems engineering.
- Demonstrated experience in business process modeling, performance modeling, benchmarking, and financial analysis.
- Strong understanding of modern technology and business ecosystems, including SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, and predictive analytics.
- Familiarity with information management, SDLC, ITSM, Agile and Lean methodologies, Infrastructure & Operations, Enterprise Architecture frameworks, and ITIL.
- Understanding of Agile approaches, principles, methodologies, and frameworks, particularly those designed to operate at enterprise scale.
- Strong awareness of current, emerging, and evolving technologies and different computing environments.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder-management capabilities, with excellent skills in communication, teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
- Strong planning, organization, performance management, and team-development capabilities.
- Ability to demonstrate the Bank’s core values of Trust, Service, and Innovation.
