Enterprise Architect

Company Description

Arηs is a fully  independent  group of companies specialized in managing complex  IT projects and systems  for  large organisations , focusing on state-of-the-art software development, business intelligence and infrastructure services.

We are composed of 13 entities across 6 countries that are unified by the Arηs Group, with more than 1750 consultants.

This corporate structure enables us to respond quickly to market changes and customer requests, and to communicate and make decisions without layers of bureaucracy.

Our success can be attributed to the synergy among our nine complementary entities, combined with our methodologies, which are based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Scrum agile software development framework.

Established in 2016, the Greek entity Arηs Developments Hellas aims to extend Arηs Group activities dedicated to the European market providing high-quality services in Software Development, covering the entire application development lifecycle: starting with user requirements, business process redesign and specifications, to continue with development, testing and application maintenance.

Job Description

We are currently looking for an Enterprise Architect  to join our growing team in one of the biggest European organizations.

Tasks:

- 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

Qualifications

Who you are:

- Master's Degree plus minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience
- Minimum 5 years o experience at similar position
- Minimum English language skills (CEFR) : C1
-  Required certificates (At least 1 certification among):

- The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA)
- Zachman Certified – Enterprise Architect
- CISSP Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (CISSP-ISSAP)
- ITIL v3 Master certification or equivalent
- Certification of Capability in Business Analysis™ (CCBA)

Knowledge

- 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
- Proficient in using systems modeling 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

Skills

- Efficiency in time management, project management and demonstrative of the company's service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Holds ability to document effectively
- Presents problem solving skills
- Strong capacity in writing and presenting studies, business cases, visions, analytical models
- Presents leadership skills
- 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-saving opportunities

Specific requirements

- Experience in the governance of architecture function