Director Domain Architecture

Director Domain Architecture_
- Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
- The domain architecture team ensures that all products and teams develop against the same architecture principles. It defines those architecture principles based on the principles provided by enterprise architecture and refines those to the specific use-cases of the domain.
The domain architecture team maintains the domain model on a component and capability level and ensures the products in the domain are well defined and sustainable.
The domain architecture team also ensures the end-to-end design of new functionalities meets the requirements of the business and connects product teams that would need to be involved in the design and implementation of those solutions- Key Responsibilities:
- Enterprise and business architecture
- Contributes to the creation and review of a systems capability strategy which meets the strategic requirements of the business.
- Develops models and plans to drive the execution of the strategy, taking advantage of opportunities to improve business performance.
- Takes responsibility for investigative work to determine requirements and specify effective business processes, through improvements in information systems, data management, practices, procedures, organisation and equipment.
- Emerging technology monitoring
- Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
- Assesses and documents the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation.
- Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
- Solution architecture
- Leads the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.
- Within a change programme, leads the preparation of technical plans and, in liaison with business assurance and project staff, ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available.
- Provides advice on technical aspects of solution development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
- Business analysis
- Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
- Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration.
- Works with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.
- Contributes to selection of the business analysis methods, tools and techniques for projects; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
- Business modelling
- Produces models in support of business strategy.
- Has in-depth knowledge of a broad range of industry-wide modelling techniques.
- Advises on the choice of techniques and approach and influences customers accordingly.
- Capable of developing bespoke models for unusual contexts. Responsible for planning and co-ordinating team modelling activities and for ensuring the quality of their work.
- Systems design
- Adopts and adapts appropriate systems design methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches, and ensures they are applied effectively.
- Designs large or complex systems. Undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-off.
- Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks.
- Reviews others' systems designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and integration of multiple systems and technology.
- Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements.
- Contributes to development of systems design policies and standards and selection of architecture components.
- Data modelling and design
- Manages the iteration, review and maintenance of data requirements and data models.
- Relationship management
- Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups.
- Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables.
- Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans.
- Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding.
- Facilitates business decision-making processes. Captures and disseminates technical and business information.
- If required:_ People Management / Resource Managemen