• Utility / industry expert, business analyst, data modelling, solution architects
• Functional & Technical industry experts
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in related field
• Candidate must have a bachelor’s degree in IT or Computer Science. Any Professional Certificate in is a bonus
• Understand, advocate and augment the principles of business and IT/OT and more specifically enterprise architecture (EA) strategies.
• Understand, advocate and augment the principles of information technology strategies.
• Understand, advocate and augment the principles of operation technology strategies.
• Analyze and plan for IT/OT alignment in areas of architecture, governance, security, software management, and data center hosting, support and software acquisition.
• Analyze enterprise business context (trends and business strategy) to derive IT/OT technical and solution architecture.
• Develop a strategic roadmap for IT & OT convergence for digital business transformation. Include specific IT/OT data integration projects that will have positive outcomes as a result of sharing data.
• Analyze the current application and technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Analyze technology industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
• “Sell” the enterprise architecture process, its outcome and ongoing results.
• Define the principles that guide technology & solution decisions for the enterprise.
• Design and lead the implementation of enterprise IT & OT solution architecture based on business requirements and to rectify gaps and pain points within the current state.
• Assist with designing the governance activities associated with ensuring enterprise IT & OT solution architecture compliance.
• Oversee or consult on enterprise IT & OT solution architecture (for example, systems) implementation and modification activities (for example, projects), particularly for new and/or shared infrastructure solutions.
• Oversee and facilitate the evaluation and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations.
• Consult on application or infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to the enterprise IT & OT solution architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the architecture to accommodate project needs.
• Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures and culture) and financial impact of the enterprise IT & OT solution architecture.
• Document necessary solution architecture design, technical architecture design and analysis work, possibly including project postmortem documentation and metric collection.