Enterprise Architect - Architecture Processes, Frameworks And Standards

Enterprise Architect - Architecture Processes, Frameworks and StandardsThis role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open opportunities with HPE.

HPE Global IT is a dynamic organization enabling the enterprise to innovate and lead the industry with our consumption-based IT transformation and our consulting, financial, educational, and operational support services.  Join us as we develop innovative solutions that revolutionize how we help customers by simplifying their operations and move the world forward.

What you’ll do:

Job Family Definition:

Encompasses multiple disciplines, including technology architects, solution architects, and Enterprise Architects. Architects: Are responsible for delivering business value to customers by architecting effective information systems solutions that address the customer’s business problems, needs and opportunities, in a manner consistent with the HPE's strategic and business goals. Have knowledge of architectural frameworks, methodologies, and tools and understand how to apply this knowledge to successfully deliver customer projects. Establish and maintain a professional working relationship at multiple levels both internally and with the customer by understanding the customer’s business context and their unique situation. Collaborate with both internal and external/industry experts to anticipate customer needs in order to facilitate the definition and development of the solution. Strong supporters of the professional development framework for their profession and use the knowledge and best practice derived from their professional associations to the benefit of their customers. Collaborate with project managers to ensure effective and efficient development, delivery, deployment, operation and support of these IS solutions. Collaborate with the account team to meet or exceed revenue, product, customer satisfaction and market share goals for assigned account(s).

Management Level Definition:

Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex business issues and is regarded as a subject matter expert. Frequently contributes to the development of new ideas and methods. Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors. Leads and/or provides expertise to functional project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives. Acts as an expert providing direction and guidance to process improvements and establishing policies. Frequently represents the organization to external customers/clients. Exercises significant independent judgment within broadly defined policies and practices to determine best method for accomplishing work and achieving objectives. May provide mentoring and guidance to lower level employees.

Are you looking for a unique, truly innovative role? What if it could be with one of the most impactful IT companies in the world? Then we have the right opportunity—we are looking for a Technical Architect within HPE IT’s Enterprise Architecture team to join us! In this exciting role you will be part of a strong team in Global IT to provide technical expertise for business solutions supporting multiple groups. 

Responsibilities:

There are four primary areas of responsibilities:

Technical Architecture Leadership

• •    Develop architecture best practices, technology standards, design patterns and engage the architecture community for adoption.
• •    Develop proof-of-concepts to evaluate platform or technical capabilities. 
• •    Proactively identify architecture soft spots and single points of failure in the end-to-end system flows and develop architecture solutions.
• •    Develop and maintain technical platform architecture for the current and future states.
• •    Provide architecture governance as part of the Architecture Review Board
• Architecture Strategy and Roadmap
• •    Develop Enterprise Architecture strategy for one or more areas in business systems and applications, enterprise data and analytics, IT infrastructure, network, and security systems. 
• •    Research market offerings and products on IT services and systems, analyze product maturities and capabilities, review use cases, and develop and present points of view to IT leadership.
• •    Develop and own the multi-year architecture roadmaps and collaborate with business and IT teams to ensure alignment of the initiatives with the roadmap.
• Architecture Delivery
• •    Lead and develop end-to-end technical network and security architecture for projects that span across multiple business groups for secure, high-performing, fault-tolerant and operationally resilient systems.
• •    Partner with solution architects, network engineers, security engineers, infrastructure engineers and other team members for the successful delivery of projects, network/security upgrades, and troubleshoot problems.
• •    Drive the project execution by ensuring business objectives are accomplished in compliance with the technology and architecture standards and roadmaps.
• Value Added Partnership and Collaboration
• •    Collaborate with other Enterprise Architects to develop and maintain end-to-end systems architecture.
• •    Communicate effectively with IT and business leaders to influence decisions and address concerns.
• •    Create an environment of trust and seek diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation.
• If you have a track record of similar technology success, want to be part of a business that is growing—with great opportunities, and are ready for your next role, then please apply today.
• Architect custom solutions of project and program or operational scope.
• Architect reusable solutions of project or operational scope.
• Customize reusable solutions of project and program or operational scope.
• Capture and share architectural IP at the project and program level.
• Oversee the implementation and governance of architectures of project and program or operational scope.
• Contribute to the Architect profession worldwide and across the company businesses.
• Develop for client technically feasible long-term IT strategies and plans .
• Assess business impact of specific technologies/strategies .
• Identify and address technical or operational risks.
• Provide review/input on project activities for medium to large business unit level projects .
• Collaborates with the project manager to develop detailed project plans and work breakdown structures for medium to large business unit level projects.
• Develop and deliver sales presentations at CEO/Executive Staff/CIO levels for medium to large opportunities (R) .

What you need to bring:

Education and Experience Required:
Industry experience - 5 years to 10 years Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience

Knowledge and Skills:

• 5+ years’ experience in implementing tools and technologies like ServiceNow APM, LeanIX and other platforms for Enterprise Architecture portfolio management, integration, and architecture practice maturity.
• • 3+ years of experience in creating and operating architecture forums like Community of Practice, Center of Excellence, Standards Board for architecture collaboration, alignment, and adoption.
• • 3+ years’ experience in running architecture governance processes like Architecture Review Board.
• • 2+ years’ experience with software engineering, data management and IT operations in technologies like Python, SQL, Java, .Net, big data platform, analytics, AI/ML, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud environments.
• • Excellent problem-solving skills – an expert technical architect should be able to anticipate where problems might occur and find solutions before the change is deployed.
• • BS/MS degree in computer science, engineering, information science or related field with network certifications.
• • Excellent organization skills, able to communicate well and build strong partnerships with vendors, technical teams, and business across geographically dispersed regions.

Architecting:

• Ability to understand the customer's business problem, need, or opportunity and to design an IS solution that appropriately addresses the business problem, need, or opportunity.
• Ability to lead a team of two or more consultants in the completion of one or more architecture, requirements, operational, or implementation deliverables.
• Ability to lead the architectural design, development, deployment, and technical quality of medium to large business unit level IT based solutions (typically within multiple technology or specialty areas).
• Be able to provide architectural direction for multiple medium sized projects concurrently. For larger engagements, a single active project is reasonable.
• Understands and applies information system or operational solution related modeling methods and tools.
• Can validate/evaluate if an information systems or operational architecture meets technical requirements and specifications .
• Familiar with multiple architectural, development and operational methodologies (e.g., Zachman, TOGAF, ITSM, ...) .
• Applies appropriate methodologies and SME knowledge to resolve complex business issues.

Business Acumen:

• Identifies risks and challenges the customer should expect to encounter with the solution based on similar efforts done with other customers.
• Develops Architecture Specification deliverables that map customer business requirements into specific technology or operational recommendations.
• Ability to apply business management and financial concepts, capital investment, financial modeling, and general aspects of business contracts. Use this knowledge to analyze business needs and develop meaningful system or operational recommendations.
• Ability to apply knowledge of how the industry uses IT to address business challenges using, for example, technical standards and infrastructure, cross-industry trends that impact IT investment, industry-specific roadmaps, and IT enablers.

Technical:

• Deep IT industry knowledge in specific areas.
• Understands future technology or operational trends as they relate to and support customer business requirements ("trusted advisor" role).
• Deep knowledge of IT and business standards and best practices in specific areas and how to apply them appropriately in solutions .
• Expert or Master level of knowledge of specific technologies, IT operations, or IT disciplines .
• Able to design planning for accessibility, scalability, and availability.

Engagement Delivery:

• Ability to write Statements of Work for medium to large business unit level solutions that span multiple technologies or operational areas.
• Ability to apply program/project management methods and processes to define, plan, cost, resource, track and ensure the accomplishment of targeted goals for medium to large business unit level projects.
• Successfully works on project teams (individual success defined by how the organization works as a team, including resource and skill sharing across the organization).

Opportunity Pursuit :

• Able to play a leadership role in business development activities for medium to large opportunities.
• Lead in identifying, qualifying, and closing medium to large opportunities .
• Position the company offering against the competition .
• Be able to provide the company with voice of the account .
• Play key role in preparing proposals and bids for medium to large opportunities.
• Manage internal reviews and contribute to Solution Opportunity Approval and Review (SOAR) process for medium to large opportunities .
• Build rapport and trust with client .
• Demonstrates excellent consultative, solution selling skills.

Leadership:

• Collaborates effectively with the project manager to manage regional medium to large projects as necessary. For architectures of project scope may include the technical management of customer staff assigned to implementation team.
• Plays a leading role in the Architect profession at the local level.
• Makes consistent and ongoing contributions (at least 2 per year) to the company knowledge systems.
• Make formal recommendations to customers to improve the level of job satisfaction for other company employees working on the project.
• Can contribute in the development of new company services and modifications to the methodology.
• Assists in development and delivery of training.
• Coaches and mentors Specialist level architects.
• Participates in defining the company unit's processes, standards, and policies .

Consulting:

• Build and manage long term strategic relationships at Business Unit leader and CIO, CTO level.
• Good customer influence and negotiation skills.
• Ability to tactically consider all sides of an issue within the contexts of time, breadth, and range of options.
• Ability to systematically gather, assess and apply organizational, technical, operational, and sales/marketing information for business decisions.
• Ability to prepare clear, concise, and persuasive communications for multiple audiences, including demonstrating effective writing and presentation skills, listening actively, and projecting a trustable image.
• Ability to articulate technical or operational problems or issues into understandable business terms.

Communication:

• Able to design and present high-impact messages to customer's senior level management.
• Able to use a wide variety of presentation tools to persuasively communicate complex messages to multiple audience levels, including senior level management.
• Ability to use prepared and create complete original materials to communicate with the customer. Communicates a mix of Strategic information and Tactical information.
• Excellent speaking and writing skills.

What we can offer you:

A competitive salary and extensive social benefits 

Diverse and dynamic work environment 

Work-life balance and support for career development  

An amazing life inside the element!

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HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT and Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to diversity and building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Our goal is to be one global diverse team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together.

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Business Growth, Change Management, Client Expectations Management, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Centric Solutions, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Intellectual Curiosity, Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Process Improvements, Product Services, Relationship Building {+ 5 more}

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