[Rpf062] - Principal Enterprise Architect (Operations & Backoffice Domains)

Purpose of the role: Contribute to the view of enterprise IT capabilities through the strategic definition of enterprise-wide business and application architecture, ensuring it supports the strategic requirements of the business. Drive the enterprise/solution/data architecture thought leadership, effectively influencing stakeholders to help define the future state. Identify opportunities to work across IAG Tech to underpin the successful delivery of major architectural initiatives. Manage supplier relationships, ensuring any third-party deliverables meet strategic, technical, and cost requirements. Identify and execute continual improvement opportunities, ensuring the best outcomes for IAG and its operating companies, driving optimal solutions through the implementation of the architecture roadmap.
Accountabilities: Ensure all architecture activity in their area is aligned in terms of business vision and goals. Provide expertise to programme and project managers with the design, planning & governance of projects and business initiatives in relation to architecture. Collaborate with Architects in other areas as required and ensure any solution within their specific specialism fits with the business and technical architecture and strategic direction. Recognise opportunities for business or IT change and communicate them persuasively to appropriate stakeholders. Act as the bridge between Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture & application designers to ensure business, information, and technology architecture is consistent, and work with developers to ensure a practical implementation that is joined up across IAG Tech. Identify cross-portfolio dependencies and issues and act to resolve them. Lead the production and ensure the quality, timely delivery, and appropriateness of architecture artefacts. Develop and document the current and future state architecture and continuously monitor the documentation, updating them as necessary to show changes, additions, and alterations. Make them actionable by balancing architecture recommendations with the optimum solution for IAG, creating transition roadmaps and influencing the portfolio to realize them by managing the overall design that underlies a projected solution, providing end-to-end solution and design details. Choose appropriate architectural viewpoints to develop based on practicality and fit for purpose.
Support the business in understanding and interpreting the architecture and ensuring awareness and use of existing architecture artefacts. Ensure design is consistent with the architecture and drives resolution of architecture issues throughout the project lifecycle.

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