Chief Enterprise Architect

This job will provide you with an opportunity to further your career alongside some of the best and most passionate technology experts from around the world in a leading company within the test, measurement and data analytics industry. You will be a strong contributor collaborating closely with colleagues from various business functions.

At HBK, we live up to our three values: Be True, Own It and Aim High. We believe in absolute integrity – it’s how we win for stakeholders, the environment and each other. We believe in teamwork and keeping our promises – to ourselves and others. Finally, we believe in being bold and positive. This is how we perform at our best and achieve greater success.

The Position

HBK are looking for a new Chief Enterprise Architect. This role will include proactively and holistically guiding enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners, and distributed delivery teams through transformation and optimisation initiatives. This role supports the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities, focusing on developing the business and IT strategy and enterprise architecture of the organisation as a whole.

Primary responsibilities

• Ownership and alignment between business and IT, and across the democratised IT landscape.

• Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships.

• Adapt to changing business and operating models.

• Analyse trends and disruptions which could impact business capability, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes.

• Communicate the value of enterprise architecture and its portfolio of services.

• Establish an Enterprise Architecture capability and operating mode.

• Building or integrating AI capability and architecture

• Coach and mentor other architects, product owners/managers, and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking.

Requirements

• Support the formulation of strategy and guide execution.

• Build and maintain relationships with a globally diverse group of technical and business stakeholders.

• Orchestrate the delivery of business outcomes.

• Facilitate technical innovation to enable the business strategy.

• Plan and manage the IT portfolio.

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud solutions, and Salesforce integration.

• Design of technological principles and architecture strategies for SAP landscape and integration into enterprise architecture.

Skills:

• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, and predictive analytics.

• Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.

• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.

• Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.

• Understanding of various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric and different types of agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.

• Awareness of existing, new, and emerging technologies, and processing environments.

• Effective leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.

• Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management, and business development.

• Mastery of all components of enterprise architecture, business & IT principles, and processes.

• Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills.

• Balances the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals.

• Rapidly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technologies.

• Ready to think, behave, and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization’s digital business strategies.

• Understands and speaks the language of the business. Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Personal skills:

• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.

• Comfortable, experienced, and accomplished at working with business executives, and able to push back in a professional and diplomatic way.

• Highly collaborative and supportive of business and its ideals and strategies.

• Vendor- and technology-neutral — more interested in achieving targeted business outcomes than in personal preferences, or in vested personal preferences of other business and IT leaders.

• Composed in the face of opposition to architectural principles, governance, and standards.

• Practical in approach to problem-solving and decision-making.

Credentials and Experience:

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.

• Eight or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant.

• Eight or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management, or operations in a multitier environment.

We offer

Freedom with responsibility is the framework for HBK’s employees. This allows for a good balance between work and family life and for constant development of professional and personal skills in an international and enjoyable working environment.

At HBK, we live up to our three values: Be True, Own It and Aim High. We believe in absolute integrity – it’s how we win for stakeholders, the environment and each other. We believe in teamwork and keeping our promises – to ourselves and others. Finally, we believe in being bold and positive. This is how we perform at our best and achieve greater success.

One company – HBK

On 1 January 2019, Brüel & Kjær and HBM merged their activities into a new company called HBK (Hottinger Brüel & Kjær). With more than 3,500 employees worldwide and production facilities in Denmark, Germany, the UK, the USA, China and Portugal and presence in 80 countries, HBK is a leading player in the test and measurement area. For further info please visit www.hbkworld.com.

HBK is a division of Spectris plc, a UK-based productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company serving leading aerospace, automotive, medical, and other customers. Spectris plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange.