Senior Solutions Architect

Actively seeking for candidates with below requirements.


Advantages
You will have an opportunity to work with a leading employer in the local market.


Responsibilities
· Conduct a comprehensive review of company’s current architecture artifacts, standards, and methodologies.

· Create a Solution Architecture Playbook, including standards, role definitions, and lifecycle processes, to provide a consistent architecture approach across company.

· Establish a central repository for playbook resources accessible to company’s IT teams.

· Review and refine company’s architecture governance structures and create policies, standards, guardrails, and design patterns to support solution architecture.

· Design a knowledge management process to gather and sustain architecture resources, incorporating lessons learned and best practices.

· Support the deployment of architecture policies and standards by populating the architecture repository and ensuring teams are trained in using these resources.

· Develop standard artifacts for capability modeling and system mapping to represent company’s current and future architecture direction.

· Produce a capability-to-solution map for each business line (liquor, gaming, cannabis) that aligns with company’s technology roadmap and future digital strategy.

· Lead the process for continuously updating the capability model, leveraging outputs from solution architecture and technology roadmaps.

· Select and apply the Solution Architecture Playbook to a set of pilot projects to assess its effectiveness and gather feedback for refinement.

· Validate Essential EA as company’s EA platform and adapt playbook processes based on pilot project outcomes.

· Lead training sessions for company’s architecture and business analysis teams on the Solution Architecture Playbook, capability models, and system mapping.

· Provide ongoing mentorship to develop the internal team’s capacity to sustain and enhance architecture practices post-engagement.

· Work closely with company’s architects, business analysts, and other stakeholders to align playbooks and practices with organizational goals.

· Facilitate workshops and validation sessions to ensure architecture standards and practices meet the company's strategic needs.


Qualifications
· Experience in enterprise and solution architecture development, with a proven track record of designing and implementing governance frameworks, reference architectures, and solution architecture playbooks.

· Knowledge of Architecture Standards and Practices such as TOGAF, Zachman, and ITIL, with the ability to adapt these frameworks to develop architecture principles, standards, and methodologies specific to organizations.

· Proficiency with Architecture Tools including experience with Essential EA or similar enterprise architecture tools for repository management and model validation.

· Strong Understanding of Business Capability Mapping to develop a capability-to-solution model, especially in complex, multi-line businesses.

· Communication and Mentorship Skills to train, mentor, and onboard architects, business analysts, and IT stakeholders in new solution architecture methodologies and tools.

· Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement experience, especially with cross-functional teams and clients in workshops, validation reviews, and requirements gathering.

· Analytical Skills to assess existing architecture artifacts, identify gaps, and validate architecture practices for integration with the company's technology roadmap.

TOGAF certification:
· 10+ years of experience with Enterprise Architecture Practice Building
· 10+ years of High-Level Architectural Governance and Leadership experience
· 10+ years of Strategic Planning and Technology Roadmapping experience
· 10+ years of Major Systems Assessments and Risk Management experience
· 10+ years of Public Sector experience
· 7+ years of ERP implementation experience


Summary
Do you have this experience? If you answer YES, then please apply IMMEDIATELY to so we can then discuss your experience and interest in this opportunity!

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