Dir, Enterprise Architect

Company: JM Family
Location: Deerfield Beach
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

JM Family Enterprises, Inc . is one of the largest, most innovative and diversified companies in the automotive industry. JM Family has been on Fortune Magazine's Best Companies to Work For for 20 consecutive years. What started with Jim Moran's passion for selling cars continues today with the dedication and hard work of every JM Family associate. Our principal businesses focus on vehicle distribution and processing, finance and insurance, retail vehicle sales, and dealer technology services. At JM Family, our mission is to be the premier provider of quality products and services. We accomplish this mission by adhering to our core values, the three C's, the I and the A: Consideration, Cooperation, Communication, Innovation, and Accountability.

JM Family is looking for an Enterprise Architect...

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in the definition and evolution of Enterprise Architecture (EA) that appropriately balances enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture viewpoints
• Participate in the development of an enterprise architecture implementation plan based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven and product-driven delivery teams.
• Facilitate business and IT alignment in a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, supporting the organization's digital business strategies.
• Analyze the business' future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environments to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business forward.
• Analyze business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise's architecture.
• Assess disruptive forces impacting the organization and identify innovative technology-enabled opportunities that enable business strategies. Assess their potential and use agile and lean approaches to evolve and manage innovation.
• Sponsor and participate in technology experiments to create new products and services and integrate the best of these into steady-state operations for the organization.
• Identify the organizational requirements for the resources, structural, and cultural changes necessary to support the EA
• Create and evolve governing principles to guide solution decision making for the enterprise
• Participate in the design and execution of effective Architecture Governance
• Present gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT estate, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
• Collaborates with project teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
• Collaborates with infrastructure and project teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.ABOUT YOU:
  
  Characteristics
  • Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.
  • Comfortable, experienced, and accomplished at working with business executives, and able to push back in a professional and diplomatic way.
  • Highly collaborative and supportive of business and of its ideals and strategies.
  • Highly innovative with aptitude for foresight, systems thinking and design thinking.
  • Vendor and technology-neutral, more interested in achieving targeted business outcomes than any specific technologies
  • Composed in the face of opposition to architectural principles, governance, and standards.
  • Practical in approach to problem solving and decision making.Behavioral Competencies
    • Accountability: Defines mutual expectations of self and others. Takes appropriate actions to meet obligations. Revises standards in response to change.
    • Adaptability: Demonstrates flexibility within a variety of changing situations while working with various individuals and groups. Changes own ideas or perceptions in response to changing circumstances. Alters standard procedures when necessary and multitasks as required.
    • Business Acumen: Demonstrates awareness of and interest in internal and external dynamics. Understands business issues. Conducts research and identifies, collects, and analyzes information about markets, economies, technology trends and business operation issues to make informed decisions. Develops approaches and solutions linked to the organization's strategy and goals for optimal performance.
    • Collaboration/Teamwork: Collaborates with other members of formal and informal groups in the pursuit of common missions, vision, values, and mutual goals. Places team needs and priorities above personal needs. Involves others in making decisions that affect them. Draws on the strengths of colleagues and gives credit to others' contributions and achievements.
    • Conceptual Thinking: Synthesizes facts, theories, trends, inferences, and key issues and themes in complex and variable situations. Recognizes abstract patterns and relationships between apparently unrelated entities or situations. Applies appropriate concepts and theories in the development of principles, practices, techniques, tools, and solutions.
    • Decisiveness: Assesses the scope and potential impact of an issue or opportunity. Uses business criteria and values to evaluate alternative courses of action. Makes a timely choice based on the options and information available.
    • Digital Literacy: Uses digital technologies effectively to access, navigate, evaluate, comprehend, create, and share information, knowledge, ideas, and expertise.
    • Innovation: Improves organizational performance by applying original thinking to existing and emerging methods, processes, products, and services. Employs sound judgment in determining how to deploy innovations to produce a return on investment.
    • Results Orientation: Sets and achieves challenging goals. Defines standards in terms of doing what is appropriate and doing it well. Competes resourcefully and takes calculated risks to achieve results.
    • Risk Taking: Handles changes and uncertainties with ease and with the ability to move forward quickly. Identifies and acts on opportunities for continuous improvement. Demonstrates a willingness to make high-risk decisions when necessary. Can act with minimal planning and to take actions, weighing the benefits to efficiency and effectiveness with the potential risks.Openness to Learning. Takes responsibility for personal growth. Acquires strategies for gaining new knowledge, behaviors, and skills. Builds on and applies existing knowledge. Engages in learning from others, both within and outside the organization. Tries innovative approaches and broadens scope of work to learn from work assignments.
    • Communication: Has a passion for communicating. Can convey thoughts and ideas in a compelling way. Remains aware of the other party and adjusts own approach as appropriate.
    • Conceptualization: Applying "architectural thinking" to the organization's business environment, and envisioning the relevant business implications and scenarios involved
    • Creativity: Applying abstract concepts in innovative ways to solve problems.
    • Pragmatism: Recognizing that things are not always clear-cut, so they require pragmatic decision making.
    • Consensus building: Bringing together people with opposing views, and steering debates toward practical solutions.
    • Communication/facilitation: Presenting ideas clearly and facilitating discussions effectively. Promoting ideas is a big part of EA, so a talent for persuading people to adopt new concepts is key.Credentials and Experience
      • Master's or bachelor's degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
      • Ten or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.Skills
        • Expert knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
        • Expert knowledge of information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
        • Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.
        • Understanding of the diverse types of agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.
        • Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
        • Understanding the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.
        • Balancing the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals.
        • Translating business needs into EA requirements and estimating the fiscal impact of EA alternatives.
        • Rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
        • Strong leadership skills...... click apply for full job details

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