Lead Architect Managed Services

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Lead Architect – Client Technology Managed Services

Job Summary:

As the Lead Architect in Client Technology – Managed Services, you play a pivotal role in assisting EY and its clients by designing a highly efficient and optimized technology architecture. This architecture integrates a variety of technology solutions that are tailored to meet the specific business needs of each client.

You will primarily have 3 responsibilities:

• Technology Architecture:
  As a technology leader possessing a robust understanding of technology and its application in driving business outcomes, you will offer architectural thought leadership and determine the feasibility of technical deliveries. You will propose the integration of diverse technology solutions as necessary for the most critical business solution implementations, drawing from the range of available EY Client Technology products, tools, processes, and the Partner ecosystem.
  
  Your responsibility includes developing technology architectures for Managed Services (MS) solutions in areas such as technology selection, reuse, architecture standards, design patterns, integration, and infrastructure service components. Additionally, you will need to adopt Client Technology (CT) practices such as Project Impact Assessment (PIA), Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Information Security (Info Sec), Accessibility, and Experience Design (XD).
• Lead Architecture Review Board: Liaise with a wide variety of internal stakeholders namely product owners (CT Technology Officers and product managers), Offering Owners (in the Service Lines), CT Delivery teams and service line delivery and GDS (Global Delivery Services), design and govern the architecture blueprints for the key managed services priority solutions. You will lead the Architecture Review Board to ensure the high quality of architectural deliverables, standardize the review process across Service Lines (SLs), and reduce variability in architectural decisions.
  
  Additionally, you are tasked with creating a central repository of architecture decision records to glean insights, facilitate knowledge sharing, and promote the reuse of these insights across different SLs and portfolios.
• Client Interaction:
  As a trusted advisor, you are responsible for gathering technology related requirements from the client and engagement team by liaising with Technology solution leaders, then translating these into a technology architecture and solution that aligns with the objectives and architectural principles established by the managed services service lines and engagement teams. This is achieved by drawing upon your extensive technical knowledge, experience, and a profound understanding of both the project's scope and EY's technology capabilities, including Client Technology and the Partner ecosystem.
  
  As a technical leader, you act as a liaison among business partners, delivery leadership, and project stakeholders.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Design integration architecture for mid to large-scale managed services opportunities, focusing on priority solutions.
• Lead Managed Services Technology Design Authority
• Design & architect normative technology blueprints powered by Data & AI
• Provide thought leadership as an Enterprise Architecture specialist, collaborating with service line sales and business teams during the design of new solutions and support throughout the deal development, pursuit, and closure phases.
• Hands-on creation of end-to-end solution architecture that aligns with the overall Enterprise Architecture (EA) and the IT Roadmap of specific clients.
• Employ an "outside-in" approach to ensure objective analysis and provide actionable architectural recommendations by integrating available technology solutions or partnering with vendor solutions.
• Develop both the current As-is Architecture and the Transition Architecture, including roadmap steps to achieve the Target Architecture (e.g., moving from on-premises to cloud hosting, transitioning from a monolithic architecture to a microservices architecture).
• Apply TOGAF and SAFe principles to architecture design and implementation.
• Integrate all architecture disciplines (Business, Data, Application, Integration, Technology, and Security) following TOGAF guidelines.
• Understand the impact of emerging technologies, their potential, and how the business and IT can capture value from them.
• Support Technology Solution Leads and assist with reviews through the Architecture Review Board as needed.
• Actively contribute to the development of the Architecture community and promote good architectural practices.
• Build an integration architecture team by recruiting and onboarding new architects.
• Maintain relationships with relevant delivery and competence centre teams, ensuring that implemented…