Director - Fsi Enterprise Architecture (Apac)

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**Want to be a part of our team?**

This is a pivotal new role envisioned in NTT Data Inc, which is formed by integrating operating companies within NTT Group to create a global full-stack services company with a range of business and technology services. The broad intent is to take a carefully curated portfolio in targeted verticals to top clients picked discerningly based on propensity for our portfolio. We will deploy a world-class go-to-market field force in such clients; and we are now making a step-change our capacity by inducting senior enterprise architecture professionals with expertise in targeted industry verticals and horizontal competencies.

One such key role is of APAC DIRECTOR - FSI ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, who will engage our clients in the banking and insurance vertical to baseline their landscape, understand their pains and aspirations, and propose solutions that address them. The sections below provide more details of the attributes expected in this role.

**Working at NTT**

**DETAILED ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES**

Support the client manager in five areas - Account Planning, Opportunity Seeding, Opportunity Strategy & Execution, Portfolio Ideation, and In-Contract Innovation Strategy.
- Account Planning in this important sales activity the EA may support the CM by doing the groundwork to understand the client’s current enterprise-wide landscape, their pains and ambitions, and identify the NTT Data Inc solutions that can be of potential value to the clients.
- Opportunity Seeding is the logical next step where the EA may support the CM in client presentations and workshops to create client awareness and interest in our portfolio offers identified in the account plan, which results in qualified opportunities.
- Opportunity Strategy & Execution requires the EA to play a key role in stitching a multi-domain solution with solution and technical architects from many NTT Data Inc service divisions. The EA optimizes the value and costing to balance the outcomes desired by the client, which is the key for winning deals.
- Portfolio Ideation - EA are best positioned to share the needs and wants of clients with the service divisions to trigger portfolio enhancements, and related value propositions of our offers, which are powered by leading edge technologies of the time. Must also know the competition capabilities, to benchmark our services, and stay on the leading edge.
- In-Contract Innovation Strategy is important for curating large client installed bases by demonstrating NTT Data Inc ability to bring innovation into ongoing delivery. The EA assigned to the client plays a key role in defining the innovation strategy.

**DELIVERABLES**

Support the client managers by producing high quality and timely deliverables.
- Document Client Insights - business and IT landscape, pains & ambitions.
- Account Plan - contribute the business and technical aspects of the plan.
- Solution Value Proposition - articulate value - how solution addresses pains and ambitions.
- Facilitated Client Workshops - workshop deliverable document.
- Multi-domain Solutioning - stitch the full solution.
- Opportunity Strategy - contribute to opportunity plan on solution and value.
- Cost-Value Optimization - ensure that value and cost are as per client’s needs.
- In-Contract Innovation - IT/digital strategy documentation.

**KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS**
- Expertise (or appreciation) of industry value chain, client pains & ambitions, and industry best business and IT practices relevant for their client.
- Sensing market trends - industry business practices and leading-edge technology practices - sift between hype and real trends that move the needle for their client.
- Be a disciple of the NTT Data Inc portfolio and know how to position its value and differentiators; and work with service divisions on keeping the portfolio competitive.
- Use of frameworks like TOGAF, Zachmann Framework or DoDAF and modelling tools, to define the enterprise architecture that addresses clients pains and realizes their ambitions.
- Conduct workshops with client’s C-suite and line of business executives, to understand their vexing issues, and investigate approaches for mitigating them.
- Convert client’s business and technology needs and wants into high level architecture; orchestrate specialized domain architects to