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Enterprise Architect and Principal Solution Architect

Why do we never seem to have enough time? Despite all the benefits of technology, why can we never get things done fast enough? I ponder these questio

•Strong business acumen: Understanding of capital and operational expenses and consideration of each when designing solutions. Understanding of the business financial position and can communicate with business owners to justify projects and discuss the ROI and cost-benefit analysis on a project. •Forward thinking: When engaging in a project, consideration of new and old technologies on the horizon is taken on, as well as changes occurring in the industry, and how to best position the customer's IT solutions to take advantage of the current solution in the future. •Investigation of new technologies: Always investigating new trends in technology, IT architecture, and IT business applications. Have an opinion on new trends in technology and architecture, and how they may affect the business and industry. •Understanding of architectural frameworks and best practices: Understanding of what enterprise frameworks are and their value to a project. Influence on the selection and use of methodologies to the projects they are engaged in and they understand operational frameworks and how their solution will be managed through and after deployment. Understand the life cycle of a project and of a solution. Influenced the customisation of frameworks and methodologies to suit MPI and to achieve a solution to a business problem. •Quickly develop deep knowledge in a technology: By gaining depth on multiple technologies in the past, ability to associate or transfer the ability to learn other methods to quickly research and gain expertise on new technologies. •Ability to work with ambiguous or incomplete information: Searching out information to determine the approach to take to reach a solution, but can start work with limited and ambiguous information and as a project progresses, make tradeoff decisions to keep a solution on target, on task, and still satisfy the business requirements that were initially identified. Specialties: Development of strategic architectures and roadmaps to exploit innovation opportunities and deliver business goals Production and management of reference architectures, principles, processes, standards and guidelines Modelling in BPMN, UML, Archimate, Visio and Excel Solution architecture and compliance assessments plus identification and mitigation of architectural risks Monitoring and assessment of market trends, standards and technologies incl. SOA, Cloud, TOGAF and Continuous Delivery