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The Vice President, Enterprise Architecture is a strategic leadership role, responsible for proactively leading the Enterprise Architecture function and ensures the provision of enterprise business solutions, applications and technical expertise through practically applying existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
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 MS/Services offerings. This role ensures management of the architecture lifecycle adoption strategy, interfacing between business stakeholders assigned to accounts, to achieve client business outcomes.
This role establishes and maintains lines of communication with account teams on strategic architecture growth opportunities and works with internal business stakeholders to define new products and services. This role selects, develops, and evaluates their team(s) to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
What You'll Be Doing
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Lead 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.
- Contribute to the vision, goals, and measures of success for the Enterprise Architecture function, recognizing the current team maturity and skills of the team members.
- Support 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.
- Interface between business stakeholders assigned to client account to develop an integrated solution strategy.
- Deepen partnership relationships with client key stakeholders, building new relationships, especially with clients with a services-related outcome.
- Contribute to the knowledge base of NTT’s development and services by sharing best practices with internal teams and clients.
- Share best practices, lessons learned and constantly update the enterprise architecture based on changing technologies, and knowledge related to recent, current, and upcoming vendor products and solutions.
- Manage the assignment of resources to necessary priorities to meet client and business strategic needs.
- Coach/mentor and provide leadership to engage with other team members and act as advisor and decision-maker in solution design situations.
- Interpret, influence, and develop IT strategies, as well as implement the execution of the strategies.
- Provide advice for the MS/Services strategy, innovation, operations, architecture and infrastructure required to deliver efficient and effective platforms fundamental to business success and client satisfaction.
- Define architectural principles and apply them to influence architectural outcomes and guide governance.
- Create, refine, and oversee 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.
- Contribute to the management of large application and technology portfolios, using frameworks, lifecycle, and various other models and tools.
- Develop both strategic and solution architecture using the Enterprise Architecture domain abstraction.
- Drive the transformation and growth for selling the particular practice across the countries and/or region.
- Recommend and participate 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.
- Define organisational service and product catalogues or act as a formal interface to the product organisation, producing formalized inputs for product evolution.
- Understand, influence, and design organisation structures, capabilities, processes, and operating models.
- Measure the value of the efforts of the Enterprise Architecture function and present those measures to stakeholders within the business to earn buy-in for the function and the funding it requires.
- Provide executive leadership with timely and high-quality reports and briefings on architecture roadmap, strategic initiatives, and architecture metrics.
Knowledge, Skills And Attributes
- Advanced knowledge of the methods and processes of an appropriate EA framework
- Have a broad level of knowledge across Enterprise Architecture, Managed Services, Service Management consulting, and multiple solutions areas (Business Units), and across domains, delivery units, and geographies.
- Excellent understanding of how technology solutions are influenced and affected by various business scenarios.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent demonstrable systems thinking and strategic thinking skills. The ability to capture the key elements of a system into a simple abstraction that empowers good decisions.
- Solid business financial skills. Demonstrable ability to perform a cost-benefit analysis and manage the budget of a team.
- Excellent business negotiation skills, influence, conflict resolution, and political savvy
- Advanced 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.
- Current knowledge of industry best practices for architectural governance of cloud, Agile, DevSecOps, etc.
- Expert in core Managed Service Portfolio offer artefacts, techniques, demos, tools and deliverables
- Solid business financial skills. Demonstrable ability to perform cost benefit analysis and manage the budget of a team.
Academic Qualifications And Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree with extensive relevant experience; or post-graduate degree with substantial relevant experience in a consulting capacity.
- Certification and expert knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies
- Certification and expert knowledge of IT Service Management methodologies (ITIL, COBIT, etc.)
Required Experience
- Extensive technical leadership experience in an enterprise environment, managing people, processes, and budgets to achieve corporate and divisional objectives.
- Extensive experience with and understanding of the deliverables and value proposition of Enterprise Architecture.
- Extensive strategic planning experience.
- Extensive client engagement and consulting experience coupled with strong experience in change management and the ability to recognize opportunities for future business.
- Extensive experience in integrating the solution for the project with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns, and best practices
- Extensive business development and pre-sales experience.
- Extensive technical background.
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of IT industry environment and business needs, combined with a strong understanding of business processes, applications, and infrastructure architecture.
- Extensive vertical knowledge of the industry to which the EA will be aligned
- An expert at “selling upwards”.
- Extensive experience as a people and resource manager.
- Extensive vendor relationship management to ensure an understanding of the vendor’s products business and services positioning.
- Strategic planning experience.
- Extensive experience in coordinating the design and implementation of new delivery models in a significant globally federated delivery organization.
- Extensive understanding of the vast range of IT Service Management and operations.
Workplace Type
Remote Working
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.
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