Enterprise Architect, Cloud & Digital Platforms

Florida Crystals / ASR Group•West Palm Beach, FL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

An experienced Enterprise Architect with specialization in cloud, data centers, cross IT disciplines, and artificial intelligence (AI). The Enterprise Architect, plays a crucial role in shaping our future technology landscape and driving our digital transformation initiatives. With expertise in cloud computing, data center infrastructure, AI technologies, and enterprise wide presence the position is instrumental in making strategic decisions and ensuring optimal utilization of resources. In addition, this position is actively involved in all IT disciplines, including databases, development and monitoring tools, hardware and software, networks, and security in as much as the cause and effects across the IT landscape.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in relevant IT functions
Develop and maintain the organization's enterprise architecture
Develop and articulate the technology vision, strategy, and roadmap for our organization, leveraging the rest of IT disciplines.
Drive IT functions to innovate through resource utilization of technologies such as databases, development tools, hardware and software, networks, security, and emerging technologies.
Experience with DBMS’s, Operating Systems, Data structures, Networks, Security, IT Business Resumption, Server and storage management, data center monitoring and optimization
Work with IT functions and Solutions owners to understand needs and future directions influencing company technology ecosystem.
Stay up-to-date on the latest technologies and trends
Communicates with both technical and non-technical audiences
Lead implementations of AI initiatives and identify opportunities to leverage AI technologies to improve business processes, enhance customer experiences, and innovation.
Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to develop and deploy AI solutions effectively.
Experienced with the latest industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices across all IT disciplines. Evaluate new technologies and assess their potential impact on the organization. Make informed recommendations on adopting new technologies to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge.
Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, with a focus on cloud, data centers, and AI across all IT disciplines.
Strong knowledge of cloud computing technologies, data center infrastructure, AI frameworks, databases structures and modeling, development tools, hardware and software, networks, and security.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field (advanced degree or certifications preferred).
Strategic and organizational capabilities
Demonstrated ability to influencing business strategy and roadmaps
Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Thorough understanding of Business processes for a multinational corporation, preferably privately owned
Management skill (e.g. prioritization, trade-off analysis, etc.)
Able to understand the core functional processes to speak in business terms and drive stakeholders to the outcomes they are seeking. In addition, able to translate these ideal outcomes into what the technology, people, and process need to be.
Architecture and modelling capabilities
Understanding of Enterprise Architecture and enterprise architecture concepts, frameworks and standards.
Experience with Enterprise Architecture tools (e.g. BiZZdesign)
Knowledge of Business process notation BPMN and architecture language Archimate
Ability to lead process improvement and technology transformation projects
Technology capabilities
Thorough understanding of Microsoft, AwS and GCP cloud products and services as applied to our companies
Large-scale package software experience – with experience in SAP
Understanding of automation technologies. E.g. RPA, AI
Ability to apply all of the above on a global basis
People skills
Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Excellent interpersonal and customer relationship skills
Demonstrates exceptional customer service
Demonstrated leadership skills
Demonstrated problem solving skills

Responsibilities

Serve as advisor to functional, technical and tower leaders on business, information and infrastructure and cloud platform technology strategies
Partner with IT leaders and other architects to align on roadmaps to enable strategic capabilities for cloud and digital platform
Understand technology product and vendor strategies, products and roadmaps
Hold decision rights on cloud and platform roadmaps for technology areas working with stakeholders
Define future state architecture vision and develop target architecture roadmaps
Ensure technology investments are fully aligned to deliver maximum value
Ensure adherence to architecture references, Architecture principles and standards for efficient deployments and operations during project definition and implementation
Develop the cloud, platform, HA, SW, Desktop current & future state Architecture
Lead innovation initiatives that are strategic to the organization.
Evaluate and employ emerging technologies & industry trends to provide a competitive edge
Provide architectural review in the demand management process
Ensure project conformance and compliance with architecture definition and guidelines, and be an advisory member on blueprint sessions.
Identify and Mitigate Architectural Risks that would negatively impact our business/IT strategy, and IT Landscape.
Update and maintain the key Architecture deliverables
Actively engaged in Architecture and User Group communities