About the Position

We are currently looking for an Enterprise Architect to join our growing team in one of the biggest European organizations.

Responsibilities

Establishes processes for enterprise architecture developments and management
Supports programmes and projects in planning and controlling (especially regarding risk management), harmonizing, change management and assures architectural compliancy
Consult and contributes to development of architectural capabilities of the organization and the architecture management initiatives
Designs and communicates enterprise architecture
Designs and maintains architectural repository
Design interoperability and interfaces between systems
Elicits needs, analyses requirements
Transfers business, users and technical needs into architectures
Maps business goals, project benefits, priorities, components, system features
Defines transition roadmaps for architectures
Prepares system documentation and provides presentations
Collects and interprets system metrics
Provides assistance to projects which implement the elements of enterprise architecture
Assesses architecture maturity
Analyses organisational structures
Analyses information systems portfolio
Analyses business processes
Conducts IS costs/benefits analysis

Requirements

Master's Degree plus minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience
Minimum 5 years of experience at a similar position
Minimum English language skills (CEFR): C1
Required certificates (At least 1 certification among):
1. The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA)
2. Zachman Certified – Enterprise Architect
3. CISSP Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (CISSP-ISSAP)
4. ITIL v3 Master certification or equivalent
5. Certification of Capability in Business Analysis™ (CCBA)

Skills

Efficiency in time management, project management and demonstrative of the company's service-oriented architecture (SOA)
Holds ability to document effectively
Presents problem-solving skills
Strong capacity in writing and presenting studies, business cases, visions, analytical models
Presents leadership skills
Capability of working in an international / multicultural environment
Skills in developing standards and policies that guide the use of IT assets
Excellent communication skills for educating employees on best practices for applying the company's IT products, resources and solutions
Ability to scrutinise the domains of the enterprise's structure to improve operations and align the business and technology to be transparent
Ability to analyse data and information generated by the enterprise and operational labour structure to identify cost-saving opportunities

Specific Requirements

Experience in the governance of architecture function

We Offer

Competitive salary
Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
Professional growth and development opportunities

About the Company

Arηs is a fully independent group of companies specialized in managing complex IT projects and systems for large organisations, focusing on state-of-the-art software development, business intelligence and infrastructure services.

We are composed of 13 entities across 6 countries that are unified by the Arηs Group, with more than 1750 consultants.

This corporate structure enables us to respond quickly to market changes and customer requests, and to communicate and make decisions without layers of bureaucracy.

Our success can be attributed to the synergy among our nine complementary entities, combined with our methodologies, which are based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Scrum agile software development framework.

Established in 2016, the Greek entity Arηs Developments Hellas aims to extend Arηs Group activities dedicated to the European market providing high-quality services in Software Development, covering the entire application development lifecycle: starting with user requirements, business process redesign and specifications, to continue with development, testing and application maintenance.

Enterprise Architect

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