Overview

Position Title: Senior Enterprise Architect

Company: CEVA Logistics

Location: England, UK

Job Description:

The Sr Enterprise Architect is a key member of the CIO Office department and is responsible for building the Functional Architecture foundations, documenting the Application landscape, mapping business requirements and systems/technical requirements, and building the relevant governance.

Responsibilities:

  • Build functional architecture foundations: Define expected functional design documentation. Document best practices. Contribute to developing and communicating architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
  • Document IT Applications landscape: Collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture team to inventory CEVA IT applications and systems. Implement Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) tool and associated governance organization. Maintain IT Application portfolio and associated documentation (architecture diagrams, integration schemas, …) up to date in the EAM. Make the link with other IT governance systems (CMDB, PPM).
  • Functional architecture advisory and governance: Review functional design specifications and business process maps that document project plans and production systems. Review architecture and integration options, make recommendations to IT management and participate in Business validation. Review that designed solutions are successfully implemented. Interact with stakeholders to map business requirements into functional solutions that optimally balance cost, speed of implementation, and value. Contribute to the EA governance processes.
  • Communicate: Develops a communication plan for architecture at the enterprise level. Build and animate the community of Functional architects.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, system analysis, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 8-10 years’ experience in a business-oriented software delivery environment. Experience in Information Systems, including roles as a hands-on technical business systems analyst or functional analyst. Experience with n-tier architectures, client-server architectures, SOA, microservices, application integration concepts (EAI, ESB, API, EDI), usability principles, and design patterns.
  • Specialist in Enterprise Architecture concepts and frameworks like TOGAF or Zachman. Solid experience in IT urbanization and business process mapping ideally in the Logistics domain. Ability to translate business needs into architecture requirements. Ability to absorb business drivers and functional requirements and envision the system capabilities needed to fulfill them.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.

About CEVA Logistics

CEVA provides world-class supply chain solutions for large and medium-size national and multinational companies across the globe. As an industry leader, CEVA offers customers complete supply chain design and implementation in contract logistics and freight management, alone or in combination. Together with CMA CGM, a leading worldwide shipping group and CEVA’s strategic partner, we are able to offer our customers end-to-end logistics solutions.