Enterprise Architect, Sr. Principal

**Enterprise Architect: Strategic Customer Accounts team**

**Location: EMEA - Home or Office based**

**_Position Summary
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- Our Enterprise Architecture team partners with our customers across the full lifecycle to define, drive and deliver Customer Success through an Enterprise focus on business transformation.- We now have an exciting vacancy for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join our International Strategic Accounts team, providing business and technical leadership across the full Customer lifecycle, to deliver Customer Success for our largest Customer accounts as well as helping Infor drive our strategic growth plans.-
**_This role can be based from anywhere in Europe and will require frequent customer engagement either remotely, or on-site within the working week.
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**_A Day in The Life Typically Includes _**_:

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- As an Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for partnering with our customers and the ‘lead chair’ from Infor across the Customer engagement lifecycle - Account/Sales Exec, Delivery/Program Exec, Customer Success Exec - for a number of Strategic Customer accounts:
- _Orchestrating our Strategic Customer Engagement framework and a One Infor approach across the full lifecycle - integrating with cross-functional teams across Sales, Digital, Value Engineering through to Consulting, Product Development and Services delivery as appropriate
- _Bringing Business and IT thought leadership to our Customers’ business transformation goals
- _Defining the Enterprise Architecture across Business (Strategy, Organisation & Process) through Information (Application & Data) and Technology Architecture domains (current and future state) as required to support strategic road mapping
- _Developing ‘Implementation & Migration plans’ that fully integrate business strategies/goals and desired business outcomes, with end-to-end solution enablement plans that can be executed in a phased manner - optimizing value delivery, while recognizing product maturity as well as business readiness for transformational change.
- _Assuring the transition to delivery through both Quality Assurance of the integrated proposal as well as ensuring effective continuity and knowledge transfer.
- _Overseeing the delivery of agreed priority business outcomes and value, through ownership of the End-to-End solution design and effective architectural governance of the enterprise transformation roadmap**_Qualifications & Experience you will bring:

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- _MBA or Masters degree preferred
- _Experience with TOGAF or other equivalent architectural framework. Certification preferred, but if you are not certified, training will be provided.- Architecture Strategy- _Practical TOGAF (or equivalent) and consulting experience in the creation of architectural strategies and transformation roadmaps for businesses across a range of industries, with breadth and depth of understanding across the architectural landscape
- _Ability to define Current, Future and Transition State architectures across all domains (Business, Application, Data & Technology) with industry experience of successfully bringing these together in setting the scene for delivery and securing the transformation path to enable Customer Success
- _Experience in bringing Business and IT thought leadership to Industry Innovation & ‘Art of the Possible’ discussions with Customer executives in support of their digitally enabled, business transformation goals
- _Strong Business & Technical architecture leadership skills, with the ability to lead & orchestrate integrated, cross-functional teams in taking an enterprise approach to customer transformation and success.- Architecture Delivery- _Deep understanding of business and solution capabilities required within respective industries with ERP at the core, but across the full business lifecycle
- _Able to simplify complexity through creation of core architectural models & artifacts across all domains and the full lifecycle, enabling effective communication of key insights, findings and recommendations to stakeholders at all levels
- _Ability to assure effective transition from Sales to Delivery, through providing continuity of customer knowledge & understanding as well as assuring quality of an integrated delivery proposal & plan - aligned with business transformation readiness & product maturity
- _Ownership of Scope and End-to-End Solution architecture - enabling the Business Vision / Strategy & delivery of Business Outcomes and Customer Success
- _Experience managing Architecture Governance Frameworks, overseeing both transformation roadmaps as well as supporting delivery teams in partnership with program leadership- Executive leadership and Relationship Management- _Ability to build and maintain strong customer relationships and partnerships at an executive level
- _Ability to communicate architecture with stakeholders at all levels (Customer & Infor), providing both business and IT leadership while