IT Director - Functional Apps COE

Overview

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This is a senior IT leadership role with overall accountability for the technical delivery capability within Brinks Company including Architecture, Data Management, Data Science, Analytics Management and IT Innovation. This role will translate and guide execution of business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture. Based on an enterprise architecture framework, this role will provide direction for solution design, prototyping, configuration and software engineering.

This role owns and governs the technology architecture roadmap of the enterprise ensuring it is re-usable, scalable and cost conscious whilst meeting the needs of the business and ensuring alignment with the defined value streams and underlying products. The role holder will develop and own a ‘rule book’ which defines ‘must-do’s’ for all autonomous agile teams, as well as projects, and drives technology and partner selection.

As such, the role provides strategic direction to the enterprise on both product and sourcing decisions.

• Outline the Global target state architecture and by region and trigger long-term planning
• Drive the evolution of the EA teams services and operating model
• Coach and mentor other architects, product owners/managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking
• Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes
• Own the data & analytics and innovation strategy for the enterprise and design, build and govern the data capability to create an insights-driven organization
• Run architecture governance board to enable a CICD mindset
• Partner with VPs and regional leaders to streamline technology deployment, optimize time to market and minimize failure rates of new releases

• Enterprise Architecture
  : develop and maintain an enterprise architecture framework aligned with Brinks BBS Strategy, Global IT and Digital Strategy
• Solution Architecture and Technology Roadmaps
  : develop technology roadmaps and design solutions to achieve roadmap goals
• Rule Book
  : develop and maintain an architecture rule book and ensure implementation in projects with partners and agile teams
• Infrastructure and Security
  : support architectural requirements for Infrastructure and Information Security & Compliance
• Lead
  : lead a team of senior architects, software engineers and data engineers; facilitate transition to Dev Ops for CICD
• Collaborate
  : work with senior leaders and stakeholders to implement the architecture rule book
• Emerging technology
  : identify trends and innovations to balance value creation with cost optimization
• Own
  : own the Technology Strategy and data & analytics roadmap using modern practices

• Develops the Business Architecture at the intersection of business and IT to translate and execute strategy
• Collaborates with business leaders to identify drivers and outcomes
• Creates diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables to guide investments
• Aligns business and IT by analyzing future-state capabilities and identifying gaps and opportunities
• Defines resources, structures and cultural changes needed to support EA
• Works with CIO and IT leaders to design an efficient operating model and federated initiatives as needed
• Ensures EA resources are empowered and committed to business-IT integration

• Facilitates business-IT alignment through collaboration to balance innovation and growth
• Guides execution of business strategy via an enterprise architecture roadmap
• Provides options and visibility into execution issues

• Maintain alignment and coordination of architecture activities across programs, projects and products
• Present gap analyses and IT investment roadmaps for future-state capabilities
• Lead analysis of IT environment to identify deficiencies and solutions
• Develop implementation plans for EA based on business requirements and IT…