Vice President, Enterprise Architecture

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This role is responsible for ensuring the management of pre-sales technical activities and support to Sales teams during presentations and demonstrations of company products and services, particularly Managed Services/Services offerings.

This role establishes and maintains lines of communication with design engineering on issues such as considerations for product reliability and works with internal business stakeholders to define new products and services.

The Vice President, Enterprise Architecture selects, develops, and evaluates their team(s) to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

**What you'll be doing**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Leads the evolution of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) function.
- May participate with the sales team in proactively driving the presales process with clients. This may include conducting meetings, writing proposals, proposing solutions, and delivering presentations.
- Contributes to the vision, goals, and measures of success for the Enterprise Architecture function, recognizing the current team maturity and skills of the team members.
- Supports Enterprise Architects with large complex solution design with clients and lead/support the internal service and technical teams to enable business outcome and requirements mapping.
- Interfaces between business stakeholders assigned to client account to develop an integrated solution strategy.
- Shares best practices, lessons learned and constantly updates the enterprise architecture based on changing technologies, and knowledge related to recent, current, and upcoming vendor products and solutions.
- Coaches/mentors and provides leadership to engage with other team members and acts as advisor and decision-maker in solution design situations.
- Interprets, influences, and develops IT strategies, as well as implements the execution of the strategies.
- Provides advice for the Managed Services/Services strategy, innovation, operations, architecture and infrastructure required to deliver efficient and effective platforms fundamental to business success and client satisfaction.
- Defines architectural principles and applies them to influence architectural outcomes and guide governance.
- Creates, refines, and oversees the execution of the processes of the Enterprise Architecture function, including documenting processes, building support for points of interaction, and ensuring the deliverables match the expectations and timing needed by partners and stakeholders.
- Recommends and participates in the analysis, evaluation, and development of enterprise long-term strategic and operating plans to ensure that the Enterprise Architecture objectives are consistent with the business’ long-term business objectives.
- Provides executive leadership with timely and high-quality reports and briefings on architecture roadmap, strategic initiatives, and architecture metrics.

**Knowledge and Attributes**:

- Substantial knowledge of the methods and processes of an appropriate Enterprise Architecture framework, for example, TOGAF.
- Substantial knowledge across Enterprise Architecture, Managed Services, Service Management Consulting, and multiple solutions areas (Business Units), and across domains, delivery units, and geographies.
- Substantial understanding of how technology solutions are influenced and affected by various business scenarios.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Substantial demonstrable systems thinking, and strategic thinking skills coupled with the ability to capture the key elements of a system into a simple abstraction that empowers good decisions.
- Substantial business financial skills, coupled with the demonstrable ability to perform a cost-benefit analysis and manage the budget of a team.
- Substantial business negotiation, influencing and conflict resolution sills.
- Substantial demonstrable leadership in Portfolio Management, Project Management, and Enterprise Change Management.
- Substantial knowledge of infrastructure strategies including Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, security, network, compute and storage, etc.
- Excellent ability to translate complex technical terminology, concepts, and issues in terms understandable to technical and non-technical management and staff.
- Political savvy plus the substantial knowledge of industry best practices for architectural governance of cloud, Agile, DevSecOps, etc.
- Substantial knowledge of core Managed Service Portfolio offer artefacts, techniques, demos, tools and deliverables.
- Substantial vertical knowledge of the required industry.
- Substantial understanding of the v