Director, Technology Architecture Scope
The Director of Technology Architecture is a senior position in the IT strategy and Corporate Business Transformation team, overall IT infrastructure architecture. Key goals of the role are to
• Lay out long-term technology architecture plan and roadmap for the IT organization
• Put in place a technology architecture board to make decisions on architecture
• Run an effective technology planning cycle to support the CIO team
• Keep up to date on emerging and evolving technologies and understanding their implications to the business (e.g., cloud computing)
• Drive fact-based, objective and clear analyses and business cases for infrastructure technology investments and portfolio, creating shared alignment between IT towers
The role reports to the IT Strategy and Corporate BT leader, and will require working across functional IT towers to build consensus and drive the long-range technology vision.
Key requirements
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills to structure problems thoroughly and approach their analyses methodically
• Bring fact-based analyses to enable objective decision making on complex technology architecture issues
• Strong collaboration ability with need to build and run global virtual teams
• Ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders in IT and business
• Possesses strong English communication skills, verbal and written
o Ability to create business and executive presentations (including Powerpoint)
o Ability to create technical documentation
• Limited travel – less than 20%, primarily within China
• Technical skills – overall 10+ years hands-on experience with a broad range of enterprise-class technology solutions
o SAP
o DB2 and SQLServer
o Virtualization
o End-user computing technologies
o Services and storage platform technologies
o Disaster recovery approaches
o Networking / communication technologies
o Technology architecture design concepts (e.g., domains)
