Orchestrates the Delivery of Business Outcomes

• Develops the Business Architecture
• Positions the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensures that the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate, and execute business strategy.
• Works with business architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context.
• Develops diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables that help guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy.
• Brings Alignment Across Business and IT
• Leads analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.
• Identifies organisational requirements for the resources, structures, and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
• Works with the CIO and IT leaders to find the right EA organisational design to drive business-outcomes. This may include being part of fusion teams and supporting federated initiatives.
• Ensures that the EA organisational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results (e.g., profitability, customer service, internal operations), and EA resources empowered and committed to the integration of business and IT.

Facilitates Innovation

• Collects, Analyses, Reviews, and Refines Innovations, Trends, Disruptions, Opportunities, or Ideas
• Assesses disruptive forces affecting the organisation and identifies technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enable business strategy.
• Contextualises trends based on technological, political, economic, social/cultural, trust/ethics, regulatory/legal, and environmental (TPESTRE) trends to enhance their strategic decision-making.
• Scans emerging technologies and the business ecosystem for major disruptive technology and non-technology trends (trendspotting) that affect business.
• Provides practical advice and best practices to take advantage of new, or emerging, opportunities and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.
• Develops, Tracks, and Manages Execution of Innovation
• Details potential competitive threats from digital enterprises that are generally considered outside of your traditional realm of competition.
• Tracks and applies innovative technologies, anchoring them in the business and operating model to assess their potential, and uses agile and lean approaches to evolve and manage innovation.
• Runs pilots to create new products and services and integrate the best of these into steady-state operations for the organisation.

Plans and Manages the IT Portfolio

• Supports Portfolio Modernisation and Develops Roadmaps
• Maintains the alignment, integration, and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects, and products as they evolve over time.
• Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
• Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams.
• Supports Solutions Design and Delivery
• Develops and applies minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles, and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance. Clarifies accountability and provides the focal point for agile, effective, and efficient decision-making.
• Facilitates a collaborative relationship across the architecture community, product management, and product delivery teams by providing freedom-in-a-box for decision-making, with the minimal viable architecture forming the boundaries of the box.
• Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools, and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
• Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.

Other Duties and Responsibilities Applicable to the Role of the Enterprise Architect

The post-holder will be expected to fulfil a range of other duties and responsibilities as detailed below.

Leadership/Management

• Line manage employees aligned to the Service area.
• Provide non-managerial support, information, and training as required for other employees within DTS Services.
• Lead and support employees in the team in the effective and efficient operation of services.
• Promote the corporate vision, values, and culture of EA as a single regional organisation, in all processes linked to maintenance, development, and implementation of Infrastructure architecture assignments.
• Provide leadership to their service staff and ensure transformational changes and new structures, strategies, policies, and processes for their system/service are implemented while maintaining the high standards of the Authority and any future challenges.
• Ensure that team members are provided with clear structure, roles, and responsibilities and are supported to work in an integrated way.
• Work closely with team members to ensure that all requirements, deadlines, and schedules are on track. Responsibilities include submitting agreed deliverables, preparing status reports, and establishing effective communication plans.
• Foster a culture that supports achievement of the Authority’s Strategic Plan by role-modelling core values and leadership behaviours to staff.
• Undertake such training as may be required for his/her own personal and professional development.

Strategic Planning and Policy Influence

• Contribute to and where appropriate, lead the development and implementation of specific targets relating to the EA corporate plan and Finance and DTS business plan.
• Contribute to the development of