Hybrid Principal Enterprise Architect

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About the role

  • Principal Enterprise Architect at Hiscox responsible for architecture roadmaps and standards. Leading modernization efforts and advising on technology solutions for the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Setting and maintaining the Hiscox enterprise architecture approach and strategy, creating innovative and actionable plans.
  • Guiding and contributing to current projects and programmes to measure effectiveness of programs and return of investment goals.
  • Accountable for specifying technical standards and patterns that assist in developing a secure, scalable governance and operating model.
  • Selecting technologies within a layered domain architecture to meet information technology and business requirements.
  • Designing standards, frameworks, and processes to support and facilitate projects for the enterprise.
  • Creating the high-level architecture strategy and guiding implementation teams on the choice of components, standards and patterns to use in the design and implementation phases.
  • Providing effective and proactive support and expertise to programmes and projects, ensuring that solution design is consistent and aligned with the architectural integration approach and roadmap, optimising solution delivery and business benefits.
  • Providing support in the creation and implementation of transition architectures, ensuring solutions are migrated and delivered in line with Enterprise Architecture approach and roadmap.
  • Interpreting and contextualising business requirements into scalable and manageable solution and design specifications that align with the overall business vision.
  • Advising technical teams on performance, scalability, reliability, monitoring and other operational concerns over integration solutions on the live platforms.
  • Working closely with Solution Architecture/Designers to ensure consistency and quality of solutions and knowledge sharing.
  • Leading, advocating and driving adoption of “best practices” to ensure the standardisation of integration architecture outputs across the enterprise architecture function through the architecture governance processes and bodies (Architecture Review Board and Technical Design Authority).
  • Documenting and maintaining all architectural artefacts and providing support to all business and assembling all system components.
  • Managing engagement with 3rd Party entities (vendors/partners/consultancies), where necessary, through RFI and/or RFP processes or any other Hiscox approved process.
  • Playing a pivotal role in the formulation of short/medium/long term Enterprise Architecture strategies and ensuring their alignment with and effective support of Hiscox strategic business objectives.

Requirements

  • 5+ years at a Solution Architecture or an Enterprise Architecture role coupled with extensive senior stakeholder engagement experience and business administration and commercial/financial awareness.
  • Proven approaches to requirements soliciting and requirements prioritising in line with business strategic objectives.
  • Experience integrating with Cloud/SaaS applications, APIs and legacy applications with a strong understanding on how integration has evolved towards being a digital, cloud and API-driven capability.
  • Experience with the evaluation and selection of new technologies based on the supplied requirements including managing proof of concepts or ‘spikes’ to validate if a considered technology is capable of delivering against the requirements.
  • Worked in mixed vendor multi-cloud environments.
  • Good communication skills, including the ability to communicate to both technical and business stakeholders in plain language.
  • Team management, coaching and mentoring and leveraging teams’ competencies/capabilities across the enterprise architecture function.
  • Qualified to degree level or possessing the relevant professional experience and working knowledge of core enterprise architecture domains with particular focus on cloud-based architectures.
  • Experience of developing enterprise-wide architectures within an Enterprise Architecture Framework, e.g. TOGAF would be an advantage.
  • Operational processes efficiency improvements through automation and process design/redesign and advantage.
  • IT cost optimisations through Enterprise Applications Rationalisation Programmes an advantage.
  • Knowledge and experience of build, deployment, change and release processes and automation an advantage.

Benefits

  • Healthy work-life balance with our 35h/week and hybrid working system.
  • Holidays: 25 days + 2 Hiscox Days (Extra two Annual Leave).
  • Health insurance, gym allowance, pension plan etc.
  • After 5 years work 1-month sabbatical leave.
  • Team spirit with many opportunities to engage and an open culture.
  • Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture.

Job title

Principal Enterprise Architect

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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