Enterprise Architect

As an Enterprise Architect in our advisory team, you will help our clients understand the impact technology can make on the business, where their technology estate needs to evolve and grow, and the most effective way to deliver business value through technology. We want you to rapidly become a trusted advisor, excel at stakeholder engagement, and turn achievable roadmaps into actionable plans. You will be bringing your skills and experience to help our clients mature their capabilities to align technology and business strategies.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Shape technology direction for our clients by assessing their current landscape, defining future-state architectures, and creating pragmatic, achievable plans that deliver measurable business value.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders, helping them understand how technology can drive outcomes and guiding them through the change journey.
• Take the lead in designing integrated solutions, influencing major decisions, and supporting delivery teams to ensure architectures evolve in line with strategic objectives.
• Explore new ideas, take ownership of key engagements, and collaborate across CGI’s expert community to bring forward innovative, business-aligned solutions.

Key things we are looking for:

• You have developed a pragmatic outlook and know that Enterprise Architecture is as much understanding the business on their own terms as it is defining and managing a technology estate.
• You have a track record of working with senior stakeholders and understand the importance of speaking to them in their own language, recognising individual viewpoints to address concerns.
• You have a variety of approaches in your toolkit and use them effectively to understand business need, determine the required change and oversee its implementation to deliver business value.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• You might have started in software engineering, infrastructure, or business analysis.
• You have honesty, integrity and a flair for problem solving.
• You enjoy working closely with clients and know that hard truths must be tempered with solutions.
• You understand the commercial aspects of Consulting and look forward to being a key contributor to business development – writing proposals and presenting solutions to prospective clients.

Some of the experience we are looking for you to demonstrate:

• Architecture – you will have worked with some or all of SOA, Microservices, EDA, and know the impacts of adopting Cloud.
• Agile Solution Delivery – you are comfortable with Agile/Continuous Architecture approaches and understand that one size doesn’t fit all.
• Integration – you have experienced different integration options, such as an ESB, ETL, P2P, and know the benefits and pitfalls.
• Cloud – you are familiar with legacy migration and cloud-native approaches for at least one of AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Data – you know quality data is the lifeblood of an organisation and have experience in Information & Data Modelling and Standards, Metadata Management, Data Condition and Quality.
• Governance – you have been responsible for setting up and chairing ARB and TDA.
• Service Management – you are familiar with the concepts of ITIL, SIAM; you understand the benefits of Service Blueprints and Service Design Wrappers.
• Vendor & Supplier Management – you can objectively review supplier delivery teams, contracts and commercial structures; you've led vendor selections.
• EA Frameworks – you are at least aware of Zachman and TOGAF, LeanIX, iServer, Archimate.

Skills: Change Management, Enterprise Architecture