Enterprise Architect Job Co-operative Bank
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Key Responsibilities
- Strategy & Governance
- Lead the development and continuous refinement of the enterprise architecture strategy aligned to long-term business priorities.
- Establish and maintain architecture principles, standards, reference models, and guardrails.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and vendors; provide evidence-based recommendations for innovation and investment.
- Architecture Oversight & Standards (Non-Hands-On)
- Chair/lead the Architecture Review Board (ARB) and ensure rigorous design reviews, risk assessments, and exception management.
- Provide governance and guidance to solution teams; ensure traceability from business capabilities to solutions, with clear non-functional requirements (security, performance, resilience, availability, compliance).
- Approve solution architectures for conformance with enterprise standards; ensure coherent, secure, scalable designs across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud.
- Business & Application Architecture
- Map and rationalise business capabilities, value streams, processes, and the application portfolio to eliminate redundancy and improve total cost of ownership.
- Drive portfolio optimisation and ensure solutions remain aligned to strategic priorities and target operating models.
- Data & Integration Architecture
- Define and govern enterprise data architecture and integration patterns (API-led, ESB, microservices, event-driven, SOA).
- Collaborate on data governance—quality, lineage, metadata, privacy, and security—across platforms and domains.
- Oversee integration platforms and enterprise data repositories to enable secure, reliable, and real-time information flow.
- Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
- Influence, challenge, and guide senior leadership through clear, outcome-oriented communication—translating complex technical concepts for non-technical executives.
- Mentor solution architects, engineers, and cross-functional teams; cultivate a culture of architectural excellence and knowledge sharing.
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Key EA Deliverables
- Current-State and Target-State Architecture Models
- Architecture Roadmaps (multi-year evolution of the technology landscape)
- Reference Architectures for core domains and recurring patterns
- Standards & Design Patterns and associated guardrails
- Capability Mapping aligned to business strategy and value streams
- Cloud & Hybrid Architecture frameworks (landing zones, governance, security)
- Data & Information Architecture Governance (quality, lineage, stewardship)
Qualifications, Skills & Attributes
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years’ experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Technology Strategy with a track record delivering large-scale enterprise solutions.
- Breadth across business, application, data, and technology architecture domains; familiarity with integration and enterprise middleware.
Preferred / Modern Enterprise Architecture Competencies
- Certification: TOGAF or equivalent EA certification (highly desirable).
- Cloud Architecture Certifications: Azure, AWS, GCP, or Huawei Cloud.
- Enterprise Integration: APIs, ESB, microservices, SOA, event-driven architectures.
- Data Architecture & Governance: data modelling, metadata, lineage, quality.
- Cybersecurity Architecture: security-by-design principles and controls.
- DevOps / CI/CD Alignment: modern delivery practices and automation.
- Business Architecture: familiarity with BIZBOK and strategy-to-execution alignment (an advantage).
- Executive Stakeholder Engagement: ability to communicate with, influence, and challenge senior leaders to drive sound architectural decisions.
- Governance Experience: leading ARB/architecture governance forums and driving standards adoption.
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How to Apply
Deadilne; February 25th, 2026
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