Enterprise Architect - City of London, United Kingdom - Anson McCade Ltd - IT and Finance Recruitment

Anson McCade Ltd - IT and Finance Recruitment

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City of London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Enterprise Architect

Employment Type:
Full-Time

Location:
London - EC4A 3BF - Willingness to travel across EMEA Regions

A Global Business Advisory Firm is seeking the expertise of a high performing Enterprise Architect (SVP) to join its award-winning Digital Modernisation Practice which provides SME level advisory services into clients across its tech-led portfolio.

Helpingto unlock enterprise value and to drive continuous digital performance improvements through the implementation of disruptive technologies and change.

As a strategic technology thought leader and expert in enterprise transformation solutions within the Retail Sector, you'll work in close collaboration with the client's senior leadership and wider Product/Engineering Teams to foster technical growth & digitalinnovation, whilst owning and managing all aspects of architecture to ensure their venture is a first-class, technology-driven business.

Globally, Retail is the largest industry sector in the firm and there is a clear intent to develop the EMEA Retail Capability into a market leading position on the foundation of a growing Digital presence.

Following their acquisition of Zolfo Cooper Europein 2015, the Firm experienced significant growth allowing them to proposition themselves as the World's leading independent turnaround & restructuring businesses.

Where they differentiate in their approach to business transformation is through their ability to make a difference in high-impact circumstances, delivering sustainable bottom-line results, which allow companies to achieve ambitious goals when it mattersmost.

Enterprise ArchitectResponsibilities Include:

Lead or colead projects of all sizes, from inception through to completion, with an emphasis on Retail sector clients, ensuring quality delivery on the client engagements in situations with time critical improvement
Provide architecture expertise across a range of high impact, high value projects, predominantly for Retail clients, including: Digital and Technology strategy, Product strategy and innovation, IT operating model, organisation & governance, IT cost reduction,IT strategic sourcing, enterprise programmes, turnaround of large scale "troubled" projects, operational due diligence, Company Separation (Carveout) or integration (Merger) projects, IT complexity reduction, platforms/infrastructure consolidation
Contribute to the Digital practice and Retail thought leadership development initiatives, taking ownership for areas of interest that can further develop the practice
Lead and/or participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities

RequiredEnterprise ArchitectExperience:

Extensive consulting experience from either a bluechip consultancy or a boutique with a strong focus on architecture
Mix of bluechip consulting and IT line management experience from a Retail organisation is of interest
Solutions focused, you possess strong commercial acumen coupled with a strategic awareness of the key issues facing Retailers in the current market
Deep and demonstrable expertise in enterprise architecture either as an inhouse EA or as a consulting EA working with the business (to establish a new architecture capability or to supplement existing EA teams)
Experience in developing businessaligned IT architectures and IT strategies
Knowledge of the associated governance, principles and standards also required.
Experience of delivering small projects and working across multiple work streams of larger projects
Excellent communication and presentation capabilities, with knowledge of prevalent tools, methodologies and frameworks
Robust fact gathering, analytical and quantitative skills
Experience of implementing projects across a number of different environments using different methodologies e.g. waterfall, agile, iterative development
Experience of working with a variety of Technology platforms both inhouse and packages, infrastructure and systems, key IT vendors for example but not limited to SAP, Oracle, Salesforce or Microsoft
Knowledge (and ideally experience) of using TOGAF or Zachman
Flexible to travel across EMEA

Highly Desirable: