IT Architect, Applications (AI)

- Drive the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational requirements; developing and updating new processes and policies; gaining cross-functional support for goals and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable requirements; securing and allocating resources; setting benchmarks and evaluating progress; mitigating obstacles affecting performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans; solving complex issues; and influencing task completion by team members. - Practice self-leadership and encourage learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative relationships across functions; communicating information and providing advice to promote project advancement; adapting to competing demands; providing feedback to colleagues, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open communication among team members; assessing and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and team members; and adapting to and learning from changes and challenges. - Lead the development of architecture strategy and technology direction within technical domains by collaborating with executives to translate business and IT objectives into architectural approaches. - Provide expert insights and share an understanding of current capability and architectural gaps, alongside market and industry trends to inform future direction. - Define and communicate architecture standards, guidelines, and strategic directions by offering expertise and guidance to architects in the design of these standards, ensuring alignment with IT strategy and target architecture. - Review, contribute to, and approve architecture standards or controls to satisfy business needs. - Develop and establish best practices in architecture that guide technology solution design. - Maintain architecture for assigned domain(s) (e.g., data, infrastructure), ensuring alignment with IT strategy and target architecture. - Offer vision for strategic roadmaps that integrate business, applications, data, integration, and infrastructure architecture. - Manage the development of transition plans for moving from current to target state architecture. - Provide consulting to architects on developing architectural designs. - Aid in creating the vision for adopting new impactful technologies by researching technical trends and developments. - Collaborate with senior IT and business leadership to facilitate and influence decisions on technology investments. - Foster innovation across the team by leveraging a deep understanding of enterprise architecture within the organization. - Ensure the adoption of architectural best practices for assigned domain(s), educating others on architecture methodologies, governance, and standards, serving as a subject matter expert across business and/or IT teams, and presenting to internal and external audiences, including senior leadership. - Build partnerships with architects and stakeholders to promote continuous development and achieve consensus on changes to the companys architectural practices. - Manage reporting duties to executives, key business leaders, and IT management, ensuring communication of the impact of architectural practices.