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Job Title: Associate Enterprise Architect
Location: The Acre, London - Hybrid working
Type: Permanent
We are hiring for an Associate Enterprise Architect to join us permanently working on a hybrid basis between home and our London office once per week. In this role as the Associate Enterprise Architect you will support the Enterprise Architecture function within the IT directorate’s Enterprise Architecture Team.
In this role you will help shape the application architecture landscape at BSI and includes elements of application portfolio management, architectural artefact production, data analysis, stakeholder communications and more.
This role offers an excellent opportunity for growth and professional development within the application architecture domain and wider enterprise environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for maintaining, promoting, and encouraging adoption of/adherence to enterprise architecture policies, standards, guidelines, strategies and templates.
- Day-to-day management and continual improvement of our architecture repository, promoting adoption and reuse of assets; building and modifying assets as needed.
- Responsible for monitoring the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies, products, services, methods, and techniques (especially relating to AI and sustainability).
- Contributes to reports and technology roadmaps that articulate the direction of BSI.
- Contributes to the assessment and testing of new products/services for BSI.
- Responsible for maintaining databases relevant to our technology landscape.
- Builds knowledge of organisation objectives, issues, and opportunities, and considers how IT should be embedded to support, address, and exploit them. Seeks and gains stakeholder involvement and support into the strategic planning process with the wider EA team.
- Supports the development of an application strategy, building on understanding of business needs, the existing IT capabilities, and an understanding of future requirements, marrying all relevant organisation objectives with achievable IT goals.
- Contributes to the creation of IT and business strategies, specifying requirements, highlighting best practice, and conducting options appraisals to identify the business costs/benefits/risks of delivery strategies.
- Reviews new applications and services, identifying budgetary, legislative, regulatory, policy, technical and staffing constraints, costs and expected benefits. Plans include identification and assessment of business risks, working closely with the business relationship management function and sponsors across business divisions. Escalates non-compliant applications.
- Responsible for communicating and promoting the enterprise architecture function and architectural artefacts internally, ensuring the available content meets stakeholder needs where possible and demand for new artefacts is managed on backlog. Building comms plans and feedback mechanisms to ensure this is successful.
- Keeps in touch with developments in enterprise architecture practises within BSI, wider industry and in appropriate professional and trade bodies through various means including news articles, conferences, webinars, etc.
- Provides, or redirects to, expert advice, both reactively and pro-actively, to those engaged in activities where enterprise architecture is applicable within IT.
To be successful in the role, you will have
- Previous experience within architecture.
- Knowledge of platform-based architecture, data modelling, MDM, data governance, integration patterns, API architecture.
- Experience supporting systems of record and maintaining accurate records.
- aligning an organisation's technology strategy with its business mission, strategy, and processes and stating this using (architectural) models and roadmaps.
- Experience identifying and assessing emerging technologies, products, or services and bringing them into an organisation.
- Experienced in analysing and proactive management of business demand for new or changed services.
- Ability to work independently using their own initiative to effectively manage tasks.
- Experience creating meaningful relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior management, internal clients, and vendors.
Grow your career and expand your skills and knowledge. At BSI, we offer opportunities to work across industries and across the globe. You’ll benefit from the different perspectives and experiences of your international colleagues, as well as ongoing training and development.
We offer flexible working, as well as 27-days annual leave, paid sick leave, bank holidays, health insurance, life insurance, pension plan with company contribution, car allowance (dependent on role), income protection, paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave, paid parental leave, adoption leave, compassionate leave, paid bereavement leave, learning and development opportunities, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.
*Please note: BSI are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this vacancy
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