Enterprise Architect

Bonus Type

Summary

We're building a culture at BOK Financial where amazing people (like you) can bring their best, be their best and work for the best. You've come to the right place to grow your career.

Job Description

An Enterprise Architect is a strategist and trusted advisor across the entire enterprise.  An Enterprise Architect contributes to the company by being a change agent, technical thought leader, and leader of technology transformations.  Enterprise Architects facilitate enterprise strategy development, opportunity identification, business case creation, technology adoption opportunities, operating model development, and innovation opportunities. The goal of an Enterprise Architect is to improve manageability, effectiveness, efficiency, and agility to have greater alignment between IT and the needs of the business.  As a technical and strategic leader, the Architect mentor's others in architecture and governance.  Effectively communicates with executive management, IT management, project managers, other architects, development teams, and line of business management to provide transparency and effectively manage expectations.

Team Culture

Our mission is to empower our company, teammates and customers through the delivery of resilient and customer-centric technology. We achieve this by leveraging our expertise in technology and deep understanding of our business units.

How You'll Spend Your Time

• You will lead enterprise strategy development, opportunity identification, business cases, technology adoption opportunities, operating model development, and innovation opportunities. 
• You will act as a strategic consultant throughout the technology lifecycle.
• You will define architecture principles, guardrails, standards, and policies, and develops and maintains architecture artifacts, frameworks, and patterns as references for various teams across IT
• You will lead enterprise architecture governance, compliance, and security activities (architectural reviews, technology sourcing, data governance) to ensure technology solutions are consistent with the target state architecture. 
• You will promote the EA processes, strategies, and recommendations to the IT and business leaders and the extended IT teams. 
• You will provide architecture leadership and oversight for transformational enterprise impacting initiatives 
• You will liaise with management and subject matter experts across the industry and within the organization to accomplish enterprise architecture goals and objectives. 
• You will lead analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise architecture
 

Education & Experience Requirements

This level of knowledge is normally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree in a related field and 12+ years of technical experience.  Additional experience can be used in lieu of a degree.  Architecture certifications are strongly preferred.  It is also preferred that the candidate have Banking and Financial Service experience.

•    12+ years progressively responsible experience in information technology, with direct responsibility for strategy formulation and/or translation including substantial senior level technical experience in Enterprise Architecture (Business, Data & Applications) 
•    Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, systems 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. 
•    Experience facilitating and leading multi-disciplined, high-performance teams. Experience with large scale project delivery.
•    Ability to enable decision making by collaborating with key stakeholders and the extended IT team to deliver results, and to resolve conflicts expediently. 
•    Experience with defining enterprise architecture best practices and guidelines with a focus on business impact. 
•    Proven ability to lead the development of architecture assessment, roadmaps, and strategies. Experience in defining enterprise architecture current and future states, capabilities, mapping applications to capabilities, performing capability gap analysis, defining business values, and identifying and evaluating options to close gaps. 
•    Proven success in applying a structured approach to analyze business problems and architect innovative technology-based solutions within the defined enterprise guidelines and standards. 
•    Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments. 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. 
•    Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks. 
•    Ability to define, maintain and manage architecture models, frameworks, and artifacts for the enterprise. 
•    Ability to balance the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions. 
•    Ability to estimate the monetary impact of EA alternatives. 
•    Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture. 
•    Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, influencing, and negotiation, including the ability to create marketing and messaging materials that meet stakeholder needs. 
•    Ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely in written documents (graphics or text), and to present these coherently and logically. 
 

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements