Enterprise Architect

Job description

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more. Experian invests in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. We have an amazing team of 25,200 people in 32 countries.  Operational  • Defines Technology Strategy to deliver new and transformed business capabilities aligned with Global Enterprise Architecture vision and strategy   • Evolves the Technology Capabilities Framework and usage of Capabilities Mapping in order to accelerate the development, reuse, and time to market of Experian Products and Services   • Creates, reviews, and aligns architectural blueprints across business, application, data, and infrastructure architecture domains, promoting reuse and standards  • Ensures quality of architected solutions which are aligned to our Technology Strategy and balancing simplicity, velocity, risk, resilience, and efficiency.  • Responsible for the Architectural Review and approval of new and changed architectural and technology solutions.  • Pro-actively fosters and engages Experian’s architecture community to facilitate and progress implicit and explicit cross domain enterprise requirements  • Provides adhoc architectural advice to technology stakeholders, promoting architectural, technology and implementation best practice  • Leads and facilitates workshops to find and align on architecture solutions with diverse stakeholders who may have differing views  Governance  • Participates in Architecture Review Board (ARB) in order to assure and approve new and changed architectural and technology solutions  • Ensures that new architectures and technologies align to Experian standards; offer a justified deviation; create a new Regional or Global standard or progress a change to the standard  Consultancy  • Provides Enterprise Architecture expertise to enable decision and direction for Regional Chief Information & Operations Officer and other execs. This can be reactive support for decisions needed or proactive investigations into complex problems. Outputs vary to suit the question: exec appropriate papers, presentations, discussions.   • Supports adhoc advisory architectural reviews as required to support Head of Enterprise Architecture and Regional Chief Information & Operations Officer. These can take a variety of forms and wider set of use cases than ARB: Transformation; SPC approval; Escalations for high risk, novel and/or troubled solutions and projects; Resilience reviews  • Oversees, provides, and informs Technology Due Diligence. The extent of Enterprise Architecture involvement is dependent on the use cases which includes external engagements to support Corporate Development M&A and Ventures      Technology  • Monitors the market to gain knowledge and understanding of currently emerging technologies.   • Identifies new and emerging hardware and software technologies and products, assesses their relevance and potential value to the organisation  • Engages with vendors of cross functional application and infrastructure solutions to understand and communicate their 3-5-year solution roadmaps so that these are transparent to Experian organisation and investment decisions can be fully informed  Core Key Responsibilities  Leadership  • Acts as a role model for high ethical values and standards of integrity. Provides leadership to create a customer focused, innovative, trust based, compliant and performance-based culture  • Demonstrates very high personal professional standards regarding the quality and business value in everything that you do, able to infect and embed those same behaviours with across wider Experian  • Engenders respect and is recognised by peers and teams as a technology leader     • Fosters a collaborative, trusted and diverse network across all Experian architects to facilitate and enable the best of Experian thinking    • Leads, mentors, and coaches’ architects and technologists  • Furthers the practice of Enterprise Architecture, by pushing innovation in Enterprise Architecture and by ‘giving back’ internally and externally    Customer  • Acts in a manner conducive to the fair and reasonable treatment of all consumers irrespective of whether these are Experian UK clients and consumers or not.  • Leads to put the Experian customer and consumer outcomes at the centre of the business, advocating their needs, delivering them value, and ensuring high quality engagement  Governance and Control  • Regularly and pro-actively