Senior Director Enterprise Architect

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The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture, is a highly skilled and advanced subject matter expert. This role is required to have excellent cross domain level knowledge and is accountable for creating integrated infrastructure software solutions and collaborating with and supporting the architectural consulting function in architecting client infrastructure software solutions.

The primary objective of this role is to ensure the optimal functioning of an entity’s IT infrastructure software by outlining complex infrastructure software solution architecture descriptions across domains, functions and industries, then monitoring and governing the implementation.

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture supports, manages, and administers contracts for software and hardware services and infrastructure software products features across their assigned area of responsibility.

This role also defines and facilitates communication between the business and its providers/vendors to deliver infrastructure software and OEM technology features according to plan and within budget and ensure licensing compliance.

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture will lead and develop NTT Data’s Cisco architecture strategy and roadmap with our Technology Solutions Global Multinational Clients (GMNC). Solutions are the underpinnings of our customers’ transformation. This role will have the opportunity to be on the bleeding edge of this transformation and to drive innovation with our emerging partners.

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture will be working on strategic areas of Cisco’s Networking, Data Center/Cloud, Cybersecurity and/or Workspace portfolio to drive growth in the business. This role will look to develop the technical relationship with their clients every single day.

This role will be a Trusted Advisor that is a solution advocate for their customers. They will lead the charge for helping to drive software value realization with clients leveraging the power of lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides expert multi-technology advice to internal clients, analyzing and providing strategies and solutions on all aspects of infrastructure software, hardware features and related technology components.

• Architect end-to-end AI solutions: secure AI factories, data architectures, and automation frameworks.

• Recommends, advises and executes on the best design for information technology architectures.

• Leads the design and communicates high level structure to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs.

• Uses client business requirements to advise on the design, deployment and operation of infrastructures software.

• Creates designs that provide holistic views, but also contain the details of the components and interconnections between components.

• Involved with projects at the time of inception and is involved along with the project manager in the planning and governance of projects and the functional analysis (FA) of developing the initial requirements.

• Researches and investigates emerging infrastructure technologies, particularly on software defined infrastructure features and the best practices associated with these trends.

• Advises on the…