Enterprise Architect
Help businesses to structure IT projects and policies to achieve desired business results
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- What's it like to be an Enterprise Architect?
- How to become an Enterprise Architect
- Latest Enterprise Architect jobs
- Top skills and experience for Enterprise Architects
- Is Enterprise Architect the right role for you?
- Enterprise Architect role reviews
What's it like to be an Enterprise Architect?
As an Enterprise Architect you will use architecture principles and practices to analyse business structures and processes and ensure that they align with business goals effectively and efficiently. Enterprise architecture has become a priority for businesses that are trying to keep up with new technologies such as cloud computing.
Tasks and duties
- Ensuring solution architectures conform to enterprise architecture principles, standards, and strategy.
- Leading the creation of the enterprise architecture capability.
- Understanding the business's economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation, to effectively support and guide technology investment decisions.
- Demonstrating business value of enterprise architecture.
- Developing and presenting business capability models and roadmaps to facilitate discussion and decision making.
- Leading a team to design and build the application that has been architected.
- Discussing the overall business plan with clients and what areas can be improved that might streamline a business or software process.
How to become an Enterprise Architect
You’ll need a combination of education and experience to become an Enterprise Architect. Those who choose this career path typically hold a bachelor or master's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field, and extensive experience in IT or a related field.
- Get a bachelor or master’s degree in computer science, information technology or a related field.
- You’ll need to gain hands-on experience working with computer systems, hard drives, service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, software and systems architecture and other architecture technology.
- Consider gaining experience as a Computer Programmer or Software Developer. Enterprise Architects need to be able to understand syntax in different languages. The best way to learn this is to gain some practical experience.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Enterprise Architect employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Enterprise Architecture
the Open Group Architecture Framework
Technology Strategy
Architecture Governance
Information Technology Strategy
Solutions Architecture
Togaf Certificate
Emerging Technologies
Information Technology Architecture
Microsoft Azure
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Latest Enterprise Architect reviews
May 2021
Enterprise Architect, the most influential job as an individual contributer
Reviewer's QualificationMaster of Enterprise Architecture
Experience5 – 9 years
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationDigital Health
The good thingsYou’re providing executive leadership advice and signature-ready decisions, and as such have a very influential role for the whole organisation, without having the responsibility to execute (although ...
The challengesYou will need a background in business and IT and both at a senior level. Communication and stakeholder relationship management are key.
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May 2021
For those wanting to understand the big picture, and help shape the future of organisations, Enterprise Architecture is an incredibly rewarding role.
Experience10+ years
Organisation sizeMedium (20-199 employees)
SpecialisationStrategic Architecture
The good thingsThe ability to improve the working life of large numbers of people.
The challengesManaging disparate stakeholder concerns and traversing highly political environments.
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