Chief Enterprise Architect

The Chief Enterprise Architect will be responsible for the complete management of the definition and implementation of the enterprise architecture repository according to the phasing and schedule agreed upon by the sector.

His responsibilities will include compiling (in close collaboration with various stakeholders in the sector) and presenting the following deliverables:

• Enterprise Architecture Repository
• Information system mapping
• Architecture models (business functional organizational application data and technical - ArchiMate)
• Information model developed in collaboration with the information manager and infrastructure model developed with the architecture team
• Principles standards and patterns of architecture
• Architecture governance framework: roles policies and standards
• Compliance with regulatory standards - NIS2 GDPR
• Roadmap and trajectories for the transformation of the information system
• Presentation aid for management

The Chief Enterprise Architect is accountable for all project deliverables and their compliance with quality planning and governance requirements.

To achieve this it relies on internal teams including process managers business experts and data experts as well as relevant business stakeholders from the organizations concerned who contribute to the production of these deliverables.

The Chief Enterprise Architect remains responsible for the overall consistency quality and validation of the deliverables produced as well as their presentation in the projects governance bodies (sectoral architecture committee and sectoral digital platform).

General experience required:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture urban planning or information systems architecture.
• Proven experience in defining and deploying enterprise architecture repositories and transformation roadmaps.
• Experience in strategic consulting missions with general management / executive committees.
• Experience in multi-business or multi-entity organizations (public semi-public structures utilities etc.).

Relevant industry experience preferred:

Experience in:

• Public services / inter-municipal bodies / local authorities
• Utilities (water energy etc.)
• Technical organizations operating industrial and geospatial information systems

Valued knowledge:

• Water industry systems and related applications
• GIS / geomatics (distribution areas networks)
• ERP/SAP and application integration
• SCADA systems / sensors / IoT

• Asset management

Enterprise architecture skills:

The profile must link strategic vision technical expertise and cross-functional governance in order to urbanize the information system and secure the foundations of the transformation.

Required skills:

• Aligning strategy and business
• Translating the strategy and public service missions into target IT
• Dialogue with management and process owners
• Arbitration and prioritization of digital investments
• Strategic vision linking the IT system to public service missions
• Mastery of architecture
• Enterprise Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
• Architectural modeling (ArchiMate)
• Business application data and technical architectures
• Shared architecture repository and IT system urbanization
• Mastering technological complexity and debt
• Governance & Continuity
• Architecture governance: principles standards and patterns
• Consistency across processes and throughout the asset lifecycle
• Integrated compliance and security - NIS2 GDPR
• Roadmap and transformation pathways
• Operational continuity and IT resilience
• Preferred frameworks and standards:
• TOGAF
• ArchiMate
• Information System Interoperability and Urbanization Standards

Facilitation and change management skills:

Desired skills:

• Leadership dinfluence et facilitation inter-organisations
• Change management and acculturation to architecture
• Popularizing the issues of architecture and urbanization
• Stakeholder management
• Report to the governance committee

Understanding public issues

Valued knowledge:

• Intermunicipal pooling and sharing of solutions between operators
• Business continuity and IT resilience
• Digital transformation of public services
• Public budgetary constraints

Required Skills:

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