Group IT - Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect
Member of the Strategy & Architecture pillar. Responsible for analyzing the current state of the company's technology, processes, and services to identify areas of improvement and create a plan for future development. Apply specialized knowledge of areas of business process, technology solutions, and methods to drive technology optimization and architecture recommendations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluating internal functions, business development strategies, and IT processes and suggesting improvements.
• Creating business architecture models to reflect the Ardagh's strategies and goals and creating and implementing business visions and goals.
• Evaluating systems engineering, talent recruiting, and accounting models for discrepancies and vulnerabilities.
• Suggesting ideas to reduce costs in IT and business leadership.
• Determining and implementing build versus buy strategies, mentor personnel, and views of the overall business strategy.
• Define and deliver major technical projects/strategies/architectures, demonstrate an understanding of the customers' business and commercial issues and contribute key insights.
• Responsible for the creation, iteration, and maintenance of structures such as enterprise and business architectures, including the interpretation of business goals and drivers; the translation of business strategy and objectives into an "operating model"; the strategic assessment of current capabilities; the identification of required changes in capabilities; and the description of inter-relationships between people, organisation, service, process, data, information, technology and the external environment.
• Define major technical projects for customers, influencing their view of acceptable investment level. Determines strategies, architectures, and proposals.
• Shape technical proposals to be acceptable to the customer and may make solution/service trade-offs.
• May manage a large design team, defining the approach to larger/more complex solution development and acceptance testing, and identifying strategic level risks and remedies.
• Work with customers to understand their business strategy and develop IT strategies and architecture for significant areas of their business.
• Stakeholder engagement to agree customer requirements and produce the design, setting high level criteria for the design of major solutions and exercising design control over the implementation.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or other related field 
• Knowledge of coding languages (e.g. C++, Java, JavaScript) and frameworks/systems (e.g. AngularJS, Git)
• Experience with databases and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks (e.g. Hibernate)
• Experience in setting strategic technical direction.
• Experience developing enterprise architecture governance processes and enforcing them
• Ability to lead a team and act as the capability (Architecture) spearhead
   

About Ardagh Group

Ardagh Group is a global leader in metal and glass packaging solutions, producing packaging for the world’s leading brands. We trace our roots all the way back to the Irish Glass Bottle Company, founded in 1932. Since then we have grown rapidly to a team of more than 16,000 people with revenues of almost $7 billion. Today we have a presence across Europe and the Americas.

• Did you know that Ardagh produce many of the beverage cans and bottles you drink your favourite beverages from?
• Did you know we produce metal and glass packaging which are permanent materials, meaning they can be infinitely recycled without any loss of quality?
• Did you know we produce more than 160 million containers per day?

Ardagh is passionate about sustainability and have a reputation for innovation. We push the boundaries of what’s possible, pioneering new production methods, new design techniques and new ways to recycle and save energy. Our aim is to reduce any negative environmental impact whilst remaining economically sustainable and socially responsible.

We believe that the success of our business depends on the success of our people. We strive to create working environments where our employees feel valued, can work to their full potential, and where their achievements are celebrated.

Here at Ardagh, we offer exciting and rewarding opportunities for talented and creative people. If you have ambition and want to make an impact with your career, come and join our team, you’ll enjoy the journey!

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