BG Advance is one of the major business divisions of BG Group providing the functional and technical excellence that supports all our activities. With a firm emphasis on developing best practice and improved standards and capabilities, BG Advance keeps us at the cutting edge of industry performance as we focus on our business objectives and long-term plans.
POSITION SUMMARY
We’re looking for several people who want to play a key role in our Global IT organisation, translating business needs into architecture direction for BG and playing a key role in shaping the IT landscape for the Global IT&T organisation.
The Enterprise Architects are responsible for interpreting the business requirements for an architecture domain, the impact on overall architecture direction and designing architectures for the formulation of new business solutions.
The Enterprise Architects will help define value creation opportunities for the business and shape the Enterprise Architecture to leverage those opportunities. They will do this by developing architecture blueprints, delivering roadmaps to realise the blueprints and recommending initiatives to meet business imperatives. They will develop and implement the principles and standards needed to ensure alignment to business goals.
The Enterprise Architects will contribute to the evaluation of blueprints produced by peers and solutions architects.
Working closely with Business Solutions Managers and Solution Architects, the Enterprise Architect will provide inputs to programme design and help ensure compliance with architecture blueprints within Global IT&T.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Collect and translate Business priorities and strategies into Enterprise Architecture requirements:
Understand BG’s business strategy, operating vision, business imperatives, and capabilities, and how they affect technology imperatives
Translate business priorities and strategies into Enterprise Architecture requirements
Translate Enterprise Architecture requirements into enterprise IT initiatives
Contribute to the development of integrated Enterprise Architecture roadmap
Ensure that domain architectures and blueprints apply relevant Enterprise Architecture principles and standards
Validate the Enterprise Architecture is relevant & achievable with Key Stakeholders
Provide input to the investment decision and Governance processes
Communicate Enterprise Architecture
Coordinate and contribute to Enterprise Architecture reviews
Establish a position within the wider architecture community as a credible authority , building relationships with key stakeholders
Ensure HSSE for all Enterprise Architecture activities is managed effectively per the BG policies and standards
Makes authoritative recommendations in the domain of expertise
Makes recommendations for additional resources
Efficient use of personal time
Makes contributions to management and functional reviews in Enterprise Architecture
Makes contributions to improve best practice and tools in Enterprise Architecture
Makes contributions to improve current projects and processes in Enterprise Architecture
