Excellent opportunity for a Chief Architect/ Head of Architecture experienced at managing Global Migrations and overseeing Vast Financial Institutions to work within the Office of the Chief Information Officer, Europe (OCIO) at one of the World’s largest Financial Services entities. This role will lead a large team and be responsible for providing renewed focus on Enterprise Architecture across the European organisation and to participate in Global Architecture initiatives. The role includes leadership and managerial responsibilities and will involve significant senior relationship and stakeholder management across multiple lines of business in Europe.

• Direct the European Architecture practices across European business entities within countries, and Shared Services units
• Responsible for driving the development and maintenance of Architecture principles, policies, standards, frameworks and guidelines
• Responsible for ensuring standardisation across Europe for non-differentiating technologies and bringing all technology units to alignment on the benefits of this
• Responsible for the ongoing operation and optimisation of the European Technical Design Authority and its interfaces with regional TDA structures
• Drive and lead European communities of practice across key technology areas such as Data, Digital, etc.
• Promote reuse and sharing of technology, designs and patterns across European units through Communities of Practice
• Develop new architecture patterns and capabilities to support emerging technologies e.g. Cloud, Data etc
• Promote the adoption of new technologies implemented across Europe through change management (in conjunction with local change management units)
• Lead and motivate a team, managing the performance and development of direct reports, ensuring alignment with the European Technology strategic direction. Ensure robust succession planning and uses talent management strategies to build and retain capability
• Is a role model for the vision and values of European Technology, exemplifying the ways of working and culture where we do the right thing for our organisation and people to succeed; embracing diversity in all its forms to create an inclusive environment to get the best outcomes
• Key contributor to the European Technology annual planning and budgeting process and leads oversight of significant IT budgets

• Significant experience and a proven track record of developing, leading and implementing Architecture practices across software development, application and infrastructure technologies in large complex organisations, preferably across multiple geographies
• Expert level of knowledge of IT Enterprise Architecture
• Expert technologist with broad knowledge across modern software development practices, infrastructure, cloud, application and enterprise architecture
• Deep knowledge and understanding of IT governance and risk and operational risk
• Exposure to environment with Board and regulatory oversight
• Excellent commercial acumen
• Direct experience with financial management issues and activities, preparing budgets and forecasts based on operational requirements
• Experienced Change Agent – with experience leading organisations through strategic change and innovation cycles
• Deep service management skills
• Strong knowledge of product and service life cycles
• Degree in Engineering, Business Administration or a technology-related field, or equivalent work or education-related experience. Master’s Degree is a plus.