Lead Enterprise Architect
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Job Posting Title Lead Enterprise Architect Employee Type Regular Recruiting Start Date 10-01-2024 Job Exempt? Yes Recruiting End Date Open Until Filled Aloha mai! Mahalo for your interest in Kamehameha Schools. If you are looking for an opportunity to utilize your skills and talents and grow in your profession, while serving and strengthening our Native Hawaiian community, we would love to have you join our 'ohana! Kamehameha Schools is currently looking for a Lead Enterprise Architect with strong people management, strategic and operations planning experience, and experience in at least three architectural disciplines (business, information, solution or technical architecture). This position is based out of our Kawaiaha'o Plaza location. Our targeted salary is around the $192,400, depending on experience. Job Summary Proactively and holistically helps guide the enterprise through transformation and optimization initiatives. Grows innovation, optimizes costs and mitigates risks. Focus to help the organization plan, design, innovate, orchestrate, facilitate, navigate and operationalize the digital enterprise. Helps business leaders facilitate the decision-making process and providing actionable recommendations on initiatives and policies to help the organization drive targeted business outcomes. Responsible for helping business leaders enable their future-state business capabilities that drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. Responsible for leading and managing the Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice. This includes the organizational design, management and day-to-day running of the EA practice as an internal management consultancy that offers a portfolio of services to business leaders and enterprise stakeholders. Responsible for defining the advisory process, EA process, and architecture review and governance, and for leading the integration of those processes with related business and IT functions and processes. The LEA leads, prioritizes and develops the overall enterprise architecture approach for the organization, and communicates architectural direction. Has purview into (and may directly manage) other architecture-related activities and the respective roles (such as business, information, solution and technical). The LEA leads and coordinates all aspects of the EA practice, including: Business Architecture: Focused on guiding people, process and organizational change Information Architecture: Focused on the consistent sharing of information across the enterprise Solutions Architecture: Focused on developing a direction for managing the portfolio of to-be solutions Technical Architecture: Focused on evolving the technical infrastructure Security Architecture: Focused on managing IT risk through the exchange of information between people, systems and things inside and outside the organization. Essential Responsibilities Manage the EA Practice

• Leads the development of a value proposition and execution of a communication and education plan for the enterprise architecture practice.
• Promotes the business value of EA as an enabler of strategy formulation, and as support for technology innovation, which drives the organization's top and bottom lines.
• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business strategy and requirements.
• Leads the creation and maturing of the enterprise architecture practice into an internal management consultancy.
• Plans and manages a talent pool of domain architects that works with EA and non-EA related disciplines to deliver the goals, objectives and outcomes of the organization.

Formulate Strategy and Guide Execution

• Understands disruptive forces and the business's economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation to effectively guide technology investment decisions.
• Facilitates business and IT alignment through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization's digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth
• Formulates, translates, advocates, supports and executes business strategy to achieve the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise's business strategy, direction and architecture.
• Constructs technology-enabled business and operating models and provides viable options and visibility into execution issues.
• Provides perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate.
• Uses planning-driven, design-driven and learning-driven approaches to construct future- and current-state business models.

Facilitate Innovation

• Contextualizes technology trends based on social, economic, political and other nontechnology trends.
• Scans the world for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business. Provides practical advice and best practices to overcome these challenges and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.
• Details potential competitive threats from digital enterprises that are generally considered outside of your traditional realm of competition.
• Tracks and applies innovative technologies, anchoring them in the business and operating model to assess their potential, and use agile and lean approaches to evolve and manage innovation.

Build and Maintain Relationships

• Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and things of the enterprise, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment.
• Provides consultative advice to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations
• Builds the EA practice to become an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.
• Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.
• Develops the skills and competencies of the EA team; in particular, building the business and behavioral competencies needed to support internal management consulting.
• Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise.

Orchestrate the Delivery of Business Outcomes

• Ensures the EA practice is designed and enabled to help formulate, translate and execute business strategy.
• Works with business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context.
• Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
• Ensures the EA organizational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results (profitability, customer service, internal operations), and EA resources who are empowered and committed to the integration of business and IT.
• Builds a skills inventory and designs a plan to close the skills gap. Finds the balance between technical, behavioral, and business and operating model skills.
• Determines the extent to which the EA program has decision-making (governance) and compliance (assurance) rights.
• Ensures the role of EA in the project and product governance setting is one of guidance, advice and oversight.
• Communicates key EA positions to business and IT leaders to get buy-in and mandate.
• Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary.
• Leads a collaborative guild of architects and works with a strategic review board to resolve conflicts between product and enterprise business outcomes.

Plan and Manage the IT Portfolio

• Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT estate, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams.
• Develops and applies standards and minimal viable architectures through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance. Clarifies accountability and provides the focal point for agile, effective and efficient decision making.
• Facilitates a collaborative relationship across product owners and agile development teams.
• Collaborates with agile teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
• Collaborates with infrastructure and project teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture
• Oversees EA implementation, continuous improvement and ongoing refinement activities.
• Oversees the documentation of all architecture design and analysis work.

Position Requirements Minimum Qualifications - An equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute for the requirements listed.

• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study.
• Minimum ten years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis.
• Minimum eight 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 multitier environment.
• 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.
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Excellent analytical and technical skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture.
• Knowledge of business engineering principles and processes.
• Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.
• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management.
• Understanding of the different types of agile principles, methodologies and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.
• Understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments.
• Organizationally savvy, and understanding of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.
• Balance the long-term ( big picture ) and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals.
• Rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Capable and comfortable with balancing time between foundational EA (Mode 1: renovating the core of the IT estate, ensuring efficiency and predictability) and vanguard EA efforts (Mode 2: concerned with business and operating model design, technology innovation, speed, agility and flexibility to achieve a unified and flexible EA that meets the organization's needs).
• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.
• Highly collaborative and supportive of business and of its ideals and strategies.
• Highly innovative with aptitude for foresight, systems thinking and design thinking.
• Composed in the face of opposition to architectural principles, governance and standards.

Physical Requirements

• Frequently sits, perform desk-based computer tasks and grasp light or fine manipulation, talk or hear.
• Occasionally stand and/or walk, write by hand, and lift and/or carry, push and/or pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds.
• Rarely twist, bend, stoop, squat, kneel, crawl, climb, reach or work above shoulder, or grasp forcefully.

Working Conditions

• This position may involve traveling to various locations, including neighbor islands to conduct business.
• Work is conducted in an office environment and may require work to be conducted in non-standard workplaces.
• Work is typically conducted Monday through Friday at normal business hours.

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by incumbents assigned to this job. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the responsibilities, duties and skills required. The incumbent may be expected to perform other duties as assigned. For Internal Use Only: #LI-CAR #LI-Hybrid Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please contact us at ...@ksbe.edu or 808-###-#### if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. Work Year 12 Pay Range 148,200.00 - 211,600.00 Annual Compensation and Benefits Based on the compensation range provided below, salaries are commensurate with job-related experience, skills and competencies, education, internal equity, length of work year, and other organizational needs. At Kamehameha Schools (KS), we recognize that compensation is just one facet of a fulfilling employment experience. Our commitment lies in fostering a positive work environment and equipping employees with the necessary resources to excel every day. Our Total Rewards Program embodies KS's dedication to the physical, mental, and financial well-being of our employee 'ohana. Explore our comprehensive Benefits Summary for more information. Primary Location Kawaiahao Plaza City, State Honolulu, Hawaii Additional Locations