We are seeking an experienced and visionary Enterprise Architecture Director t o define and drive architecture strategy. This role will play a critical part in advancing the firm’s architectural capabilities, governance, and technology simplification initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute the architecture strategy to optimize and de-risk the technology landscape, aligning with business capabilities and supporting corporate objectives.
• Architecture Governance: Establish and maintain governance frameworks to enforce architecture principles, policies, standards, and best practices across the firm.
• Review and Oversight: Lead the architecture review process, integrating with existing PMO and Agile workflows, assessing architectural significance, and managing governance operations.
• Compliance Management: Ensure project-level compliance with architectural principles, standards, and reference architectures through effective governance mechanisms.
• Asset Optimization: Drive IT asset optimization and application rationalization to align technical solutions with business needs, simplify the technical landscape, and reduce duplication.
• Risk Management: Define and execute methodologies for technical risk and debt assessments, developing roadmaps to reduce risk and enhance delivery speed.
• Repository Oversight: Manage the Enterprise Architecture (EA) Repository, including the metamodel of principles, patterns, reference architectures, and capability models, to support continuous analysis and rationalization efforts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of relevant work experience in enterprise architecture or related roles.
• TOGAF 9 Foundation Certification or equivalent.
• Experience in enterprise architecture within financial services or global investment management preferred