Chief Enterprise Architect - Europe

HRO Digital is an international company providing recruitment support within #Fintech, #Finance and #Banking market in EMEA. We connect the most innovative organizations with the best people in the market. We conduct systematic market research, which allows our Digital Teams to be a step ahead of the competition.

Currently we are looking for Chief Enterprise Architect for Europe region to join one of the biggest worldwide financial institutions in Cracow!

Principal responsibilities
Champion the development and implementation of Future State Architecture (both business and technology architecture).
Drive synergies across multiple countries through a consistent business architecture and identify opportunties for standardisation and reduction of complexity.
Govern the introduction of new techniques, products, services, technologies and standards where needed against identified use cases and taking into account regional and global commercial factors through the appropriate governance bodies.
Accountable for the delivery of all aspects of the design and material decision making on major architectural activities across Europe.
Accountable for the identification, management and remediation of material design issues associated with major architectural activities.
Govern architecture standards and have a holistic knowledge of the Group’s most critical business systems.
Stay abreast of technology trends and advise IT and the business about potential benefits/impacts.
Responsible for leading a commercially aware architectural design practice for multiple Global Businesses and/or Global Functions across Europe
 
Requirements
Minimum of 10-15+ years experience in IT preferably (not mandatory) in the financial services industry.
Minimum of 5+ years experience in global organisations in an executive leadership position as Head of Architecture / Head of IT / CIO / CTO.
Experienced in architecting and leading large technology scale change (USD $50+ Million and team size of 100+).
Track record of business architecture implementation and experience of process redesign and/or process simplification in support of efficiency and transformation objectives.
Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences including boards/senior executive management.
Experience of modern architecture applying APIs, micro services, data foundation, advanced analytics and leading Cloud provider capabilities.
Experience working in across breadth of architecture covering Business, Application, Data, Technology architecture domains across a complex domain.
 
Due to the urgent hiring need, candidates with immediate right to work locally and no relocation need will be prioritized.

We offer:
Stable jobs in professional teams
Competitive salary, contract of employment + annual bonus
Interesting path of career in international organizations
Contact with top IT technologies available in the market
Private health care (plus on-site medical consultations in the office), employees' benefits
Ability to work from home and flexible working hours
Parking few minutes away from the office
Conference and training budget, language course/studies partial reimbursement

HRO Digital is an international company providing recruitment support within #Fintech, #Finance and #Banking market in EMEA.

We connect the most innovative organizations with the best people in the market. We conduct systematic market research, which allows our Digital Teams to be a step ahead of the competition.