[Hiring] Chief Enterprise Architect @Computacenter AG & Co. oHG

Role Description

At Computacenter, we pride ourselves on fostering a culture that emphasizes diversity, inclusivity, and collaboration. We are committed to building supportive and rewarding relationships, celebrating success, and treating everyone with respect. Our focus is on putting customers first, keeping our promises, and considering long-term sustainability in all our decisions. Computacenter has an ambitious transformation agenda, and we are looking to build a new Enterprise Architecture function to work alongside an already existing Solution Architecture team to support this.

We are currently seeking experienced Enterprise Architects to work closely with our technology strategic partners and business leaders to create a compelling vision, strategy and roadmap for your domain, and work closely with our Solution Architecture function to deliver the desired outcomes to the business areas. This role has a data center / cloud focus.

• Partner with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values.
• Assist in the creation and evolution of Domain Tech Strategies that are adopted by your domain and technology business stakeholders.
• Create and maintain a current and target view of our Enterprise Architecture to deliver our business and technology strategies.
• Support business and technology change through capability roadmaps that assist in service and solution creation.
• Work closely with our Solution Specialist function ensuring that Tech Strategy is viable and new ‘solutions’ can be architected within the EA Principles/Guardrails and still deliver the desired outcomes to the business areas.
• Support annual and quarterly business and portfolio planning processes to ensure that the initiatives and plans are consistent with the agreed tech strategies.
• Ensuring our EA tool information is up to date and has the required breadth and depth.
• Support the development of architecture tools and techniques to support others in the practice.
• Embrace and support Computacenter’s mission and core values.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience as a Lead or Domain Enterprise Architect.
• A track record of creating and embedding technology strategies either within a business domain or within a large-scale transformation program.
• Legally eligible to work in the United States.
• Experience with RedHat, AWS, Azure, VMware.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and business terminology.
• Ability to produce quality EA models and artifacts that drive effective decision making.
• Ability to demonstrate alignment of technical decisions with business goals and value delivery.
• A continuous learning mindset and to keep pace with industry and market trends.
• Ability to use your skill and experience to create tools and content that will aid the development of the emerging EA practice.
• Experience of following structured methodologies for consistency and risk reduction, e.g. TOGAF, SAFe and system development lifecycles e.g. waterfall, agile, DevOps & DevSecOps.
• Ability to build trusted and respect as a ‘thought leader’ who can influence and when appropriate persuade technology and business leaders.
• To be motivated by leading and driving the team to deliver upon the business strategy.
• Ability to be technology neutral: unbiased towards any specific technology or vendor choice, entirely motivated by getting to ‘value & outcomes’.
• Ability to propose and effectively estimate proposed solution commercials.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Proven analytical, planning, organizational and technology skills.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation plans.
• Long-term career opportunities.
• Attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.

Company Description

Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 21,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta.