Region NA IT Architecture Lead

Region NA IT Architecture Lead – Job Description

With around 480 locations in over 40 countries, thyssenkrupp Materials Services is the biggest materials distributor and service provider in the western world. The role is based in Southfield, Michigan, and supports the production materials and integrated service solutions provider for production materials, supply chain management, logistics and transportation.

Responsible for planning, analysis and development of architecture methodologies, frameworks, models, and artifacts that represent business strategy, operations, services, processes, solutions, and technologies across multiple domains – 30%.

• Evaluate the technology portfolio and identify opportunities to reuse, replace, or modernize architectural components to drive strategic value.
• Assess the impact of business strategy on the architecture landscape, including organization, information, infrastructure, and applications.
• Identify and define leading enterprise architecture capabilities, roles, processes, and skills.
• Lead the creation of architecture blueprints and roadmaps for complex and large technology environments based on business models.
• Develop deep understanding of industry dynamics and the impact of technology trends to identify and formulate recommended changes to existing enterprise architectures.
• Lead large scale technology transformation to deliver business value through the evolution and management of enterprise architectures.
• Navigate through the Thyssenkrupp global network and leverage relevant expertise to develop enterprise architecture insights.
• Develop deep expertise and experience in Enterprise Architecture assets, frameworks, patterns, and governance.

Lead aspects of the creation or evolution of the EA function, including the coordination of enterprise information systems, data, technical and solution architecture viewpoints across stakeholders, product owners and agile development teams through the Architecture Review Board – 25%.

• Establish an effective Architecture Review Board to assess, evaluate and approve architecture-related initiatives, setting, reviewing and enforcing architectural standards and policies across the organization.
• Ensure consistency across different architectural domains within the organization, such as data, application, and security architectures, and enforce compliance with the architectural standards, crucial for avoiding inefficiencies and security risks.
• Understanding, advocating and supporting the enterprise's business and IT strategies.
• Leading the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements; analyzing industry, technology and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
• Analyzing the current business and IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Working within the Management Team to develop application strategies and project priorities.

Acts as a single point of contact (SPOC) for Enterprise Architecture in North America – 15%.

• Cultivate tkMNA IT's role as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders defining and implementing enterprise architectures that drive business value, manage complexity, and accelerate harmonization of the IT assets.
• Responsible for solutions in both public (Azure, GCP, AWS) and on‑prem systems.
• Manage the day‑to‑day architecture design in our public & private cloud by monitoring solution configuration, maintenance, performance, and repair. Plan and manage solution lifecycle revisions to host solutions and software. Work with vendors to identify capability and quality improvements.
• Leading and facilitating the creation of governing principles to guide solution decision making for the enterprise.
• Ensuring that the optimal governance structure and compliance activities (such as handling waivers) are associated with EA compliance.
• Leading the development of an implementation plan for the EA, based on business requirements and IT strategies; overseeing EA implementation, ongoing EA refinement activities, and the documentation of…