Enterprise Architect (.NET)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support and facilitate strategic IT change by developing enterprise architecture to gain the maximum value while minimizing disruptive impacts.
• Facilitate an enterprise architecture that shows how the current and future needs will be met.
• Define, validate, and communicate architecture principles and standards for information and information technology assets
• Promotion of shared information technology assets which improve ICON business capability and information flows. Ensure that projects and IT solutions leverage common functionality and align with business and IT strategies.
• Liaise with business and IT stakeholders in defining and validating business/ information/ data/ application/ infrastructure/security architecture.
• Work with solutions architects to provide a consensus-based enterprise solution that is scalable, adaptable and can meet current and anticipated future business needs.
• Ensure that standard deliverables are appropriately delivered and well documented, including infrastructure, disaster recovery, data flows, and integration points.
• Contribute to the assessment, documentation, and communication of the impacts, trade-offs, risks, costs, benefits, and opportunities of IT solutions from an enterprise architect perspective.
• Contribute to the development of policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation, and use of Information Technology within ICON in alignment with other IT functions.
• Liaise with senior management as part of the architecture and standards approval process.
• Keep up to date on enterprise architecture best practices and trends.
• Be actively engaged in the administration and delivery of architecture activities in line with the overall strategy.
• Present the roadmaps and other strategies to the senior management  and be able to effectively communicate the business changes and subsequent benefits in a manner that can be understood and implemented.
• Work with business and IT stakeholders to evaluate complex situations accurately and identify viable solutions that create successful outcomes for the customer.
• For new products, major implementations or integration with 3rd party systems; ensure that a risk assessment is complete, including impact on data integration, data quality, performance, and controls.
• Collaborating and coordinating with a cross functional team to ensure the delivery of an enterprise level solution.
• Providing additional governance to the delivery team to ensure that Product has the appropriate Quality assurance coverage (System, Integration, Performance, Security, Automated).
• Support the growth of the delivery team through the interviewing of new candidates and mentoring existing delivery team members.

Requirements:

• Minimum IT/Computer Science/Software Engineering related degree or equivalent with at least 15+ years of experience on application development, implementation, and/or architecture.
• 10+ years of experience as a Senior Solution Architect / Senior Technical Architect preferably in medium-to-large scale global organization.
• Possess deep understanding of enterprise architecture, systems development concepts and complex implementations.
• Proven ability to successfully deliver large scale programme of IT change on time and within budget.
• Possess process improvement experience with a focus on continued streamlining of processes.
• Demonstrate strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts/theories for a variety of stakeholders.
• Ability to analyze project, program and portfolio needs, as well as determine resources needed to meet objectives and solve complex business and technical problems that involve remote and elusive symptoms.
• Knowledge of project planning and management, including scope, time, and resource management.
• Possess strong interpersonal, relationship management, influencing and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrate outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Have a strong working experience in C#.Net, WCF, IIS and databases like Oracle SQL/PLSQL/MySQL and Web API.
• Be able to demonstrate good practical experience utilizing different integration and reporting technologies.
• Experience with delivering projects using Agile software development techniques.

Experience in Life Science is preferable.