Sr. Enterprise Architect (Remote)

Job Details

What you will do

The Enterprise Architect sets enterprise architecture standards, creates the technology roadmap, drives innovation and technology experimentation, and ensures process and technology governance with the goal of aligning the technology systems architecture to enable the enterprise business strategy. In addition, the Enterprise Architect leads, prioritizes, and develops EA discipline for the enterprise, as well as with business and IT leaders.

How you will do it

Enterprise Technology Architecture

• Set global enterprise technology architecture standards and drive the enterprise technology roadmap
• Engage with the business at an executive level to understand business and technology goals
• Set global standards for strategic platforms, including parameters for regional variation
• Collaborate with IT Business Partners and Delivery Leads to prioritize and recommend IT systems and be certain that all projects/products are designed and delivered in alignment with the enterprise technology architecture
• Provide technical insight and support domain architects (e.g., Solution Architect, Infrastructure Architect, Information Security Architect) with the development of conceptual designs for new solutions
• Make final decisions regarding modifications to the enterprise technology architecture
• Communicate enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and business drivers to non-technical stakeholders
• Set integration standards and drive integration technology roadmaps and plans
• Drive design, engineering, reuse, and application of architectural patterns
• Participate in the strategy for building and maintaining the architectural runway
• Partner with Operations to develop and execute plan to sunset non-strategic assets
• Partner with the Office of the CIO to develop the roadmap to rationalize the IT footprint to reduce complexity, unnecessary redundancy, risk, and non-compliance
• Review all solutions to ensure compliance with Enterprise Standards; leverage Technology Reference Architectures appropriately through Enterprise Architecture Review Board (EARB) and Strategy Review Board (SRB)
• Promote security, interoperability, standardization, and simplification of JCI's technology landscape

Governance of Emerging Technologies

• Understand major disruptive technology trends. Maintain working relationships with third-party IT suppliers (e.g., cloud) to gain outside-in perspective on optimization of JCI's technology landscape
• Engage stakeholders to capture ideas and promote identification of innovative technology solutions; partner with IT Business Partners to develop the business case and set up pilots

What we look for

• 10 or more years of experience in major disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment
• Five years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis
• Ability to comprehend the business functions and capabilities to enabling core IT technologies
• Must demonstrate good judgment and pragmatic approach to deliver optimal solutions
• Should have worked in Global organizations to have broader and regional perspectives of business capabilities and IT enablement capabilities
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, ERP systems, SaaS infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), ERP, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics
• Exposure and understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments
• Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
• Strong leadership skills
• Excellent analytical and technical 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
• Ability to translate business needs into EA requirements
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of EA alternatives
• Ability to apply multiple solutions to business problems
• Ability to rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
• Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization's digital business strategies
• Understand and speak the language of the business

#LI-MJ1

#LI-Remote

Johnson Controls International plc. is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law. To view more information about your equal opportunity and non-discrimination rights as a candidate, visit EEO is the Law. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please visit here.