MD- Chief Architect-Head of Strategy and Architecture - Investment...

Job Description

The Chief Architect is a member of the Strategy and Architecture leadership team with responsibility for the Technology Architecture function.The Chief Architect is a thought leader who is required to define and own the IT architecture strategy for this area, driving strategy execution through delivery of architecture activities. They lead and continue building a strong architecture team to develop and embed business and technology strategy through effective business and IT partnership; develop achievable reference and solution architectures; support the engineering community in the implementation of those architectures and contribute to development of Group Architecture strategy and standards.The Chief Architect is responsible and accountable for leading the operation of the global practice of architecture. This includes design and decisions in support of the domain, ensuring they are aligned with group standards, IT and Business strategy, meet business objectives and satisfy all. relevant regulatory and operational risk controls.The Chief Architect primary accountabilities are to Head of Strategy and Architecture and the CIO of wholesale banking.Role: Champion the development and implementation of banks Future State Architecture (both business and technology architecture). Lead and own the development and implementation of architecture strategy, standards and roadmap for the domain Drive synergies across domain through consistent architecture and identify opportunities for standardisation, sharing and the reduction of complexity. Introduce and govern new practices, processes, techniques, products, services, technologies and standards where needed against identified use cases, via the appropriate governance bodies. Accountable design authority for technology decisions and leadership of the appropriate governance bodies. Accountable for the identification, management and remediation of material design issues associated with major architectural activities. Provide a consultancy role to IT and business teams where appropriate. Provide full life cycle architectural guidance to development teams and ensure quality technical deliverables. Stay abreast of technology trends and advise IT and the business about potential benefits/impacts. Responsible for leading a commercially aware architectural design practiceEXP 20 years experience in IT preferably in the financial services industry. Minimum of 5 years experience in global organisations in a leadership position as Head of Architecture / Head of IT / CIO / CTO. Experience in leading large technology scale change (USD $50 Million) which improves business effectiveness in sustainable ways Track record of building and implementing business cases for improving effectiveness, scale and speed of technology support for the business Track record of using innovative, collaborative approaches to deliver solutions Track record of business architecture implementation and experience of process redesign and/or process simplification in support of efficiency and transformation objectives. Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences including boards/senior executive management. Experience of applying modern architecture: APIs, micro services, data foundation, advanced analytics / Machine Learning and leading Cloud provider capabilities. Experience working in across breadth of architecture covering Business, Application, Data, Technology architecture domains in a complex domain,

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engineeringstandardsgovernanceconsultancytechnology trendsAPIsadvanced analyticsMachine LearningIT architecture strategybusinesstechnology strategyreferencesolution architecturesGroup Architecture strategydesigndecisionslife cycle architec