Principal - London, United Kingdom - De Beers Group of Companies

De Beers Group of Companies
De Beers Group of Companies
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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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**Company Description

  • You're talented and adaptable. That's why you'll fit in.**As well as discovering, mining and processing many of the essential raw materials that enable, support and enhance modern life, our global business is involved in selling and marketing products copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal, nickel and diamonds. Through our Marketing Business, we are able to offer innovative solutions to meet our customers' specific challenges. This includes physical products, logistics and technical support, as well as pricing and financing solutions.
**Job Description

  • What you'll do**Marketing IM requires an experienced Enterprise Architect with strong technical skills in Microsoft Stack technologies and Azure services with experience of designing external customer facing solutions to join our team.


The role holder will play a critical role in setting the technology strategy, roadmap and design-direction for software systems using various technologies such as C#,.NET, and Javascript frameworks.

They will be trusted advisors and innovation partners to the Marketing business and combine expert knowledge in Microsoft technologies with their commodity trading and customer solutions experience to harness technology in support of delivering safe, secure, resilient solutions to enable the Marketing business.


TYPICAL TASKS

Performance & Delivery

  • Responsible for the overall architecture related to the Customer facing processes and introducing emerging technologies that will enable digitalization and improving customer experience.
  • Develop enterprisewide architecture strategy and design futureready ecosystems with Microsoft technologies (including Customer facing portal) that meet the strategic requirements of the business.
  • Design new solutions to optimize the customer interfacing processes to maximize the commercial value.
  • Be a trusted advisor to a range of stakeholders. Provide consultancy and influence senior leadership teams. Facilitate decisions ensuring the agreed solution balances functional fit, cost, service quality and systems management requirements at a high level. Drive out adoption of new technology and reuse of existing technology decisions as appropriate.
  • Key contributor to the wider Marketing IM Architecture strategy and roadmap, that meets the requirements of the business. Facilitating development of enterprisewide solutions that include business and technology capabilities and defining and communicating the current and future state architecture for a business portfolio including roadmaps and technology investment prioritization.
  • Provide architectural leadership to multidisciplinary teams and drive architecture workshops, review boards, and collaboration sessions.
  • Provide consultancy in the startup phase of projects to ensure highlevel solution assurance as well as providing highlevel design assurance throughout project delivery.
  • Understand production plan, identify, and manage project design dependencies and design decisions, and provide support for identifying resource expertise based on solution complexity and design.
  • Review and challenge the highlevel cost of proposed solutions ensuring cost covers all aspects of technical elements, infrastructure, work breakdown and resource cost.
  • Effectively engage and manage key stakeholder relationships collaboratively within the architecture community and the wider capabilities of Marketing IM, Group IM, Digital, third party vendors, and within relevant business areas.
  • Modernize the Marketing architecture, leveraging the latest trends in the technology, including determining the right platforms and architecture with scalability consideration.
  • Supporting Marketing to maximise value derived from investment in Microsoft sevices.

Thought leadership & Innovation:


  • Responsible for capturing, prioritizing, incubating, and exploiting market and environmental trends to the benefit of Marketing, working in collaboration with colleagues from the business, Digital, BI and Group IM.
  • Proactive contributor to the Architecture Community of Practice, encouraging innovation amongst the community and supporting individuals and teams to share creative ideas and learn from failures.
  • Ambassador for innovation, with the ability to connect relevant technology advancements with opportunity for business strategy execution.

Quality & Controls:


  • Defining and implementing architectural quality controls, standards, and practices to ensure compliance and cohesion between business and technology strategy and Marketing transformation activities.
  • Responsibility for defining and maintaining bestpractice, high value, architecture artefacts.

People & Teams

  • Responsible for setting architectural direction for the Marketing IM organization.
  • Provide enabling technical support and guidance to develop the team and their capability.
  • As a trusted advisor and partner to the business
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