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Overall objectives
- Ensure architectural integrity, alignment, and compliance across business, data, and technology domains.
- Act as a governance lead within enterprise architecture forums, driving consistency, traceability, and strategic alignment.
- Support the development and enforcement of architecture standards, principles, and decision frameworks.
- Facilitate collaboration across domain architects to ensure cohesive and integrated enterprise architecture.
- Contribute to the evolution of architecture governance models, tools, and practices.
Role specific responsibilities
- Lead and participate in architecture governance forums to review and approve solution designs.
- Ensure traceability of architecture decisions to enterprise strategies, standards, and business outcomes.
- Collaborate with domain architects to assess solution compliance and identify gaps or risks.
- Maintain architecture repositories, including decision logs, reusable patterns, and reference models.
- Support audits, compliance reviews, and risk assessments related to architecture practices.
- Promote reuse, standardization, and alignment across business, data, and technology domains.
Core competencies required
- Governance & Standards: Deep understanding of architecture principles, governance frameworks, and compliance processes.
- Domain Expertise: Strong knowledge in one or more domains—business architecture, data & AI, infrastructure & cloud.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled in working with domain architects, business leaders, and delivery teams to ensure alignment.
- Architecture Modeling: Proficient in using modeling tools and techniques (e.g., capability maps, data lineage, infrastructure blueprints).
- Decision Facilitation: Experience in architecture review boards, decision logs, and risk assessments.
- Communication & Influence: Ability to articulate governance value and influence adherence across diverse teams.
