Regional Enterprise Architect London, England
Chanel
Full Time
London, England
96047 - 125419 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Your Role @ Chanel
CHANEL invests significant efforts to provide state-of-the-art digital tools and services to both its employees and customers in order to contribute to the long-term brand equity of the House.
The UK & Canada Regional IT Team are in charge of the design and management of solutions dedicated to supporting the business strategy. Chanel operates a hybrid approach to its solutions and services with a multitude of managed platforms.
Our organisation is professional, fast paced and can be challenging. With an increase of project requests post pandemic, we are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to set direction and establish the approach for integrating information applications and programs.
The purpose of this role is to understand business drivers and required capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive and support the business strategy.
You will work with Application Managers, Technical and Solution Architects to deliver best in breed solutions to the business.
This will strengthen our ability to deliver key strategical systems in the UK and Canada. The role will report to the Regional CTO.
What impact you can create:
- Form an Architectural Design Authority
- The Enterprise Architect will provide the necessary thought leadership, analysis and design related to developing a well-managed enterprise architecture. Creating templated processes that help develop a direction for managing the organisation's portfolio of "as-is" and "to be" to align business outcome objectives.
- Design and lead the adoption of Enterprise Architecture across the line of business applications and technologies.
- Manage and develop the architecture for a broad scope of projects, working closely with application development, project and service teams.
- Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
- Working with the Global Architecture Teams, define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns for UK & Canada, to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
- Own the Reference Architecture for the UK and Canada including librarianship and delivery of for standards and build patterns
- Build and maintain strong relationships with all functions across the business and IT to understand their processes and how they work to develop them into technical automated and integrated solutions that exploit greater speed, efficiency, performance, accuracy and security
- Balance technicality with commerciality and practicality in making decisions
- Demonstrate through a capability matrix the organisations ability to start a project.
What you would gain from this experience:
- The opportunity to build a strategic relationship with different stakeholders within the business to embed the need to properly analyse and assess their needs with opportunities and solutions.
- Achieve professional recognition in relevant Management Frameworks and certifications.
You are energised by:
- Enabling the Business
- New Technology and staying relevant
- Working in a highly collaborative environment with different cultures
- Consistency
- Governance and Structure
- Ensuring that strong architecture principles are in place
- Prioritising in a high-pressured environment
- Being a motivational team player
What you will bring to the role:
General requirements
- Enthusiasm and ambition
- A new role to the Region you will be a self-starter, self-reliant and a determined problem-solver
- Must demonstrate a commitment to company values
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong presentation and interpersonal skills
- Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
- A measured and informative approach to highlighting and dealing with conflicts
Business Acumen
- Proven ability to build relationships with and manage key stakeholders.
- Track record of advising Senior Business Management
- Proven advanced capability to work credibly at a senior business level, and be able to anticipate, understand and respond with strategic business challenges and how IT can help solve them.
- Understanding of the organizations’ goals and objectives.
Architectural/Technology Skills
- Experience Developing an Enterprise Architecture
- Auditing Compliance against EA standards
- Strong experience in the BDAT domains
- TOGAF Certified
- Advantageous if you have experience of one or more of the following: SalesForce, ServiceNow, Docusign, Azure Platform, APIM, Kafka
Plus (The following types of qualification are of interest)
- ITIL or Project Management Certification
- Security Certification (CCSP, CISSP, Azure Security)
- Azure Certifications
At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity, and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience, and potential you could bring to CHANEL.
Chanel
www.chanel.com
London, United Kingdom
Leena Nair
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Private
Department, Clothing & Shoe Stores
1924
