Enterprise Architect (Warsaw, hybrid) – Frontex
About The Position
Frontex is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to join their team in Warsaw. This hybrid role involves a significant remote component (60%) with 40% onsite work at Frontex Headquarters. The mission duration is 54 months, and candidates must be based in Poland. The role requires a minimum of 8 years of IT experience, with at least 5 years in relevant Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles. A Confidential / EU Confidential security clearance is necessary. The position demands strong expertise in enterprise and business architecture design, familiarity with various architecture frameworks like TOGAF and Zachman, and proficiency in systems modeling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect. The Enterprise Architect will be responsible for establishing and managing enterprise architecture processes, supporting projects, designing and maintaining the architectural repository, and ensuring architectural compliancy. Excellent communication and analytical skills are essential for this role, along with the ability to work in an international and multicultural environment.
Requirements
- Minimum 8 years of IT relevant experience.
- Minimum 5 years in relevant IAM roles.
- Minimum level of education: Level 7.
- Minimum English language skills: C1.
- Has performed role of Enterprise architect in organization.
- Has hands-on experience in building EA culture and practices throughout the organization.
- Expert in enterprise and business architecture design.
- Familiar with business process development, value streams and capability maps design.
- Good knowledge of enterprise architecture domains.
- Good knowledge about maturity models analyses and frameworks.
- Is proficient in using systems modelling tools like Sparx Enterprise Architect, Aris Architect or others.
- Familiar with market wide designing architecture standards or frameworks such as, TOGAF, Zachman, Azure Well-Architected framework or similar.
- Expert knowledge in computer science and IT to research IT solutions and identify ways to enhance existing operations.
- Efficiency in time management, project management and demonstrative of the company’s service-oriented architecture (SOA).
- Strong capacity in writing and presenting studies, business cases, visions, analytical models.
- Capability of working in an international/ multicultural environment.
- Skills in developing standards and policies that guide the use of IT assets.
- Excellent communication skills for educating employees on best practices for applying the company’s IT products, resources and solutions.
- Ability to scrutinise the domains of the enterprise’s structure to improve operations and align the business and technology to be transparent.
- Ability to analyse data and information generated by the enterprise and operational labour structure to identify cost-savings opportunities.
- Experience in the governance of architecture functions.
Nice To Haves
- At least 1 certification among: The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) or equivalent, Zachman Certified – Enterprise Architect or equivalent, CISSP Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (CISSIP-ISSAP) or equivalent, ITIL v3 Master certification or equivalent, Certification of Capability in Business Analysis™ (CCBA) or equivalent.
Responsibilities
- Establishes processes for enterprise architecture developments and management.
- Supports programmes and projects in planning and controlling (especially regarding risk management), harmonizing, change management and assures architectural compliancy.
- Consult and contributes to development of architectural capabilities of the organization and the architecture management initiatives.
- Designs and communicates enterprise architecture.
- Designs and maintains architectural repository.
- Design interoperability and interfaces between systems.
- Elicits needs, analyses requirements.
- Transfers business, users and technical needs into architectures.
- Maps business goals, project benefits, priorities, components, system features.
- Defines transition roadmaps for architectures.
- Prepares system documentation and provides presentations.
- Collects and interprets system metrics.
- Provides assistance to projects which implement the elements of enterprise architecture.
- Assesses architecture maturity.
- Analyses organisational structures.
- Analyses information systems portfolio.
- Analyses business processes.
- Conducts IS costs/benefits analysis.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
