Region NA IT Architecture Lead

Job Summary At tkMNA, the main responsibilities of the Region NA IT Architecture Lead include managing, planning, analyzing, implementing, and delivering comprehensive architecture methodologies, frameworks, processes, reference models, portfolios and roadmaps for thyssenkrupp Materials North America landscapes. The Region NA IT Architecture Lead serves as a trusted advisor to business and technology teams defining and implementing technology architectures that drive business value, manage complexity, and accelerate harmonization of the IT assets.

The Region NA IT Architecture Lead serves as the critical link between technical teams and business needs, responsible for analyzing requirements, crafting comprehensive architectural designs, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. This role encompasses technical leadership by guiding teams, making informed technology choices, and mitigating potential risks throughout solution life cycles.

The Region NA IT Architecture Lead proactively and holistically leads and supports EA activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects and products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

They understand the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams and business processes and their importance in solution and enterprise architecture. The Architecture Lead provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities:

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, along with 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

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