Senior Manager Enterprise Architecture (m/f/d)

Areas of Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to define technical requirements, and deliverables, and assist in setting expectations within the business.
• Defining and updating of the overall technology vision and strategy, helping to ensure its progress within the Product Development roadmap.
• Hands-on creation and presentation of Architecture Design Documents that capture non-functional requirements from the perspective of business, software, data, and infrastructure architectures.
• Review all architecture documents created by your team to ensure completeness in vision and accounting for the competing concerns of the technology strategy, non-functional requirements, customer needs, and product roadmap.
• Mentoring and developing engineering staff in architectural concerns.
• Keep current on technical advances in the industry, including microservices, distributed systems, cloud, deployment and delivery automation, machine learning.
• Accountable for the design, ease of evolution, quality of the systems, performance, scaling, and availability characteristics of the systems.
• Supports and reinforces our development process with the architecture and product management teams, acting as a champion for high-quality implementations, and helping communicate and clarify our processes.
• Perform code and design reviews of components created by engineers and architects.
• Drives the architectural and service governance program (guardrails).
• May occasionally need to perform hands-on development of interfaces and frameworks for the engineering team to further implement.
• Work with product management, business stakeholders, and other engineering leaders to help define mid-term, and long-term roadmaps and shape business directions; drive the non-functional requirements of the product.
• Meet occasionally with enterprise customers in support of our largest deals, create presentations for customers representing our technology current and future state, provide estimates and guide scoping for extensive mission-critical system needs, and mentor the team to do so.

Profile of Qualifications:

• Develops enterprise architecture governance structure based on business and IT strategies.
• Develops the technical capability of their team as well as the IT organization as a whole.
• Is passionate about integrating data and applications to create world-class composable systems architectures.
• Analyzes technology industry and market trends and determines potential impact upon the enterprise.
• Obsesses about creating and maintaining useful reference architecture standards.
• Develops relationships with vendors and business partners.
• Acts as a consultant to IT and business leaders.
• Will have responsibility for performance and coaching of staff and will have a participatory role in decisions regarding talent selection, development and performance.