What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Director – Enterprise Architecture - Hybrid US position at Siemens Digital Industries Software?
Siemens Digital Industries Software is a leading provider of solutions for the design, simulation, and manufacture of products across many different industries. Formula 1 cars, skyscrapers, ships, space exploration vehicles, and many of the objects we see in our daily lives are being conceived and manufactured using our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software.
General Summary:
The Enterprise Architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise leaders, Business Partners, Product Managers, Product Owners, and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The enterprise architect’s scope of activities could include helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes, such as growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving sustainability. They focus on developing the business and IT strategy and the organization's enterprise architecture.
The Enterprise Architect must:
Hybrid near Siemens Location within US - Normal office environment Occasional travel (<25%) may be required.
"Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States. Qualified Applicants will not require employer sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in the United States".
Why us?
Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software. A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!
Siemens Software. Transform the Everyday with Us
180,400 342,700 15-25 %
General Summary:
The Enterprise Architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise leaders, Business Partners, Product Managers, Product Owners, and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The enterprise architect’s scope of activities could include helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes, such as growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving sustainability. They focus on developing the business and IT strategy and the organization's enterprise architecture.
The Enterprise Architect must:
- Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape
- Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships
- Adapt to changing business and operating models
- Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes
- Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning
- Setting technology environment standards and guidelines
- Support various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric
- Communicate the value of enterprise architecture and its portfolio of services
- Drive the evolution of the EA team's services and operating model
- Manage a team of architects, coach and mentor other architects, product owners/managers, and business partners to instill architectural thinking
- Work with IT, Business Leadership, and Stakeholders to develop a strategy
- Connect strategy to execution
- Build the EA value proposition and structure business engagement
- Enable value-based messaging and handle multi-functional relationships
- Develop the business architecture
- Bring alignment across business and IT
- Collect, analyze, review, and refine innovations, trends, disruptions, opportunities, or ideas
- Develops, Tracks, and Leads Execution of Innovations, Trends, Disruptions, Opportunities, or Ideas
- Support Portfolio Modernization and Develop Roadmaps
- Support Solutions Design and Delivery
- Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, and predictive analytics.
- Understanding business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.
- Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
- Understanding of various operating models, such as project-centric and product-centric, and different types of agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.
- Awareness of existing, new, and emerging technologies and processing environments.
- Effective leadership skills with outstanding soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
- Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management, and business development.
- Mastery of all components of enterprise architecture, business & IT principles and processes.
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
- 8 or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis, or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant.
- 8 or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution, or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management, or operations in a multi tier environment.
- Enterprise Architecture Framework experience is required. Certification in at least ONE of the following is required: TOGAF, Zachman, FEA, or Gartner
"Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States. Qualified Applicants will not require employer sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in the United States".
Why us?
Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software. A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!
Siemens Software. Transform the Everyday with Us
180,400 342,700 15-25 %