Design and lead the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements.
Manage and develop the architecture for a broader scope of projects, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or initiative.
Provide consulting support to project teams to ensure the project is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
Understand, advocate and augment the principles of information technology strategies.
Analyze the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation).
Analyze the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
Design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.
Develop a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by the solutions architecture).
Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
Consult with application and infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture.
Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.
Document all solution architecture design and analysis work.
Work closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised.
