Enterprise Architect

Job description / Role

As an Enterprise Architect you will be responsible for the creation, maintenance and management of the IT architecture models and their lower level components. You will help the business management achieve its strategic goals to create a world class experience to reduce risks and enhance cost-efficiency and scalability.

Client Details

A well-established organisation centred around developments in technology. The focus is now to bring in the best talent to help facilitate and drive the growth and evolution of this great organisation.

Description

* Own the IT architecture, and be responsible to manage all activities related to the design, development and maintenance of the architecture models and scenarios.
* Assist in the development of the operations strategy of the section to improve and enhance overall business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.
* Responsible to follow up new technologies and plan accordingly the general technical architecture evolution as per new technology possibilities.
* Working with the Business, IT and Technical Operations to develop medium and long-term strategic plans of the IT Department.
* Build, update and evolve the Information System documentation, including application cartography, or the subsystem of the Information System, Business Applications and Infrastructure components.
* Monitor the completion of projects and implement effective and rigorous project evaluation methodologies to inform future planning.
* Takes responsibility of managing the design, procurement, installation, upgrading, operation, control, maintenance (including storage and communication of data, voice, text, audio and images) and effective use of IT infrastructure components and monitors their performance.

Job Offer

* Highly competitive salary package on offer for the right candidate

Requirements

* 5-10 years' experience as IT Solution or Enterprise Architect.
* Very strong technical background in different Business Applications (CRM, ERP, CMS, etc) preferably from development roles.
* Strong hands on Business Process development experience.
* Strong Project Management experience and excellent understanding how EA is applied to the project work.
* Enterprise Architecture certified or equivalent experience using industry standards such as TOGAF and Zachman.
* Expertise with different architecture and design patterns (e.g. component-based design, SOA, RESTful APIs, cloud, micro-services).
* Cloud (Azure, AWS) experience is preferred.
* VMWare Certification is preferred.

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.