Company: ALEXBANK
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Employment Type: Full-time
Description:
• The Head of Application Architecture will develop and mature the architecture and integrations functions in its broadest sense, such as planning and designing technical strategy, creating competitive advantage, faster execution aligned to strategies by understanding our core competencies.
• Engaging in the development and maintenance processes of applications, enabling innovative and efficient solutions, creation of roadmaps, plans, patterns, policies, process, procedures, standards, guidelines, and implementation patterns which guide strategy and execution.
• Provide strategic leadership for the Architecture portfolio, aligning work and outputs to the Bank’s strategy and goals.
• Provide strategic leadership for the design, delivery and operations of the Architecture portfolio.
• Lead management activities for the function including building the capability demand and resource management, and line management.
• Establish a team of architects providing competent resources, tools and… methodologies for the delivery of the Architecture function
• Raise awareness and understanding of the Architecture function to ensure full engagement and adherence with process.
• Define, implement, and evolve strong underpinning practices, guidelines, and frameworks that are required to continually improve the quality of technical solutions that are delivered.
• Establish the metrics and tools to assess capabilities and develop individuals associated with the practice.
• Develop and drive the Bank’s technical strategy, ensuring it aligns with the overall business strategy and objectives.
• Arbitrate between business strategy and technical strategy ensuring that business requirements are properly evaluated and fit with existing architectures, or that architectures evolve to better accommodate the needs of the business.
• Oversee all architectural artefacts
• Provide strategic direction and leadership of the Architecture function.
• Develop and maintain the Bank’s enterprise architecture ensuring it supports the delivery of reliable, efficient, and secure services.
• Develop and maintain an inventory of current and future applications, systems, and infrastructure, ensuring they are aligned with the Bank’s goals and objectives.
• Lead the development and implementation of architecture roadmaps and plans that support the Bank’s strategy.
• Provide technical and analytical guidance to the Architecture Team
• Lead analysis of technology industry and market trends to incorporate into long-term technology adoption practices, coordinate with next generation technologies to ensure architecture requirements meet future business aspirations.
• Analyze the current technical architecture sets to identify risk, opportunities for improvements and standardization and enable flexible, agile, and scalable technology platforms and build standards for common technologies.
• Develop and maintain a high-performance culture that encourages innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Effectively plans, prioritizes and manages the delivery of complex projects or activities to achieve long term strategic objectives
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g.: Faculty of Computer Science or equivalent)
• MSc is a plus.
Experience:
Minimum 10-15 years of experience in Information Technology, and 7 Years as ICT Architect and Managerial experience
Course & Skills:
• Certified TOGAF is a plus
• Awareness of COBIT (Enterprise Governance) and ITIL
• In-depth knowledge of Banking systems and industry
• Good practice service management standards.
• Good knowledge of components of a holistic EA and of translating business needs into EA requirements.
• Good knowledge of current industry trends.
• Extensive experience of working in an IT delivery senior management role.
• Experience of all domains of Architecture – Business, Data, Application, Technology and Security is a plus
• Experience across middleware design and information analysis.
• Experience of business analysis
• Experience of working with external suppliers
Source: LinkedIn
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