NSE ITS Head of Enterprise Architecture (Director) Long Term Assignment/FTC

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Deloitte is known for its innovation and future thinking; bring your Enterprise level skills and experience in Enterprise Architecture to bolster a team driving us to the next level.

We are seeking a highly skilled, experienced, and inspirational Head of NSE Enterprise Architecture. You will lead an established, high performing team of Enterprise Architects committed to identifying and implementing innovative technologies to ensure that Deloitte remains the leading global provider of audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, legal and related services.

The successful candidate will be accountable for nurturing the Member Firm's strategic technology roadmap across the classical Enterprise Architecture domains, including Business, Applications, Infrastructure, Cyber, Methodology and IT Service Management. You and your team will work closely with business representatives and directly influence the direction and high-level design of strategic solutions, as well as the strategy, roadmap and future state architecture of our enterprise technology landscape.

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

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You will provide leadership and guidance to your NSE-wide team as well as an NSE Community of Practice in Enterprise Architecture, building a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include:

• Leading the development of the NSE Enterprise Architecture strategy and roadmap, mapping the current state business and technology architectures for NSE geographies, with growing emphasis upon global and regional alignment and define the target state business, enterprise and applications architectures.
• Help the business make more well-informed decisions about where and how they spend their change capacity, influence the planning, budgeting, and ongoing investment processes to move the organisation closer to an aligned NSE future state architecture that delivers against the vision and that improves user experience, is more effective, cost efficient, agile, sustainable, resilient and secure.
• Support your team in the development (and in some case, ownership) of high-level business cases (HLBC's) for innovative solutions focused on business outcomes aligned to overall strategy, through governance for acceptance into the sponsored Portfolio of Change.
• You and your team will keep a watching brief and governing role on initiatives, as they flow through the waterfall and agile change lifecycles through design, build, test and implementation. You will operate the BAU and executive level design authorities that signs-off on the detailed design, adherence to standards and other non-functional requirements (NFR's).
• You and your team will develop and maintain, on at least an annual basis, the Strategic Technology Roadmap across all technology domains.
• You will act as an authority in Enterprise Architecture, promoting best practices in design and governance to improve the probability of success in our business, agility, risk, user experience and sustainability.
• Establish strong partnerships with business and IT stakeholders from a wide range of Deloitte organisations globally and collaborate with other functions to “bring” Enterprise Architecture thinking and influence into discussions about the future technology landscape, as well as the annual planning cycle. Also bring your own thoughts about potential initiatives that will lead us closer to the future state architecture.
• Work with CISO function to ensure solution designs meet both Global, regional and local security policies and standards.
• Manage a diverse team within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution and be an advocate for their professional development.

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Essential skills and experience:

• Experience of successfully leading a team of high performing experts, helping them grow and develop their craft, advance in their careers, and deliver against the strategic objectives of the firm; leading the way in collaborative development of roadmaps and strategic solution design.
• Highly developed stakeholder management, communications and influencing skills with the ability to engage, collaborate, manage and affect technical and non-technical stakeholders up to and including C-Level; able to confidently present in a dynamic environment.
• A desire to continually learn and pro-actively keep up to date with the emerging technologies and trends that can be introduced and leveraged to the benefit of the firm.
• Able to document and diagram high level solutions, roadmaps and strategies.
• Knowledge and experience in Enterprise Architecture. Experience utilising, not necessarily with accreditation, in one or more of the classical EA Frameworks, e.g. TOGAF, DODAF, Zachman.
• Good working knowledge of the pros, cons and applicability of various technology domains including: public/private cloud, networking, end user devices, directory services, application development (agile/non-agile) etc

Desirable:

• Experience in leading a geographically diverse virtual team and working across multiple geographies.

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Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you'll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Be part of Deloitte North and South Europe

At Deloitte, you'll be joining an innovative firm, working together to make positive change happen. In the UK, we are part of Deloitte North and South Europe (NSE), the second largest member firm in the Deloitte network.

Deloitte NSE combines operations in Belgium, Central Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, Malta) Ireland, the Netherlands, the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Switzerland and the UK, as well as countries further afield in the Middle East, including Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestinian Ruled Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen).

There are more than 2,700 partners and over 65,000 people that make up our dynamic teams across these regions, who are together responsible for creating €7bn of revenue. We have an unmatched breadth and depth of capabilities in audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, and tax and legal across the region.

Respect and Inclusion

In the NSE Ambition we've committed to creating an inclusive environment for all and addressing inequality, to deliver on and scale our inclusion agenda. Our vision is to provide equal opportunities to mitigate systemic bias, develop our people to succeed and thrive through targeted development, evolve and drive our culture around allyship.

Our Purpose & Strategy

Our NSE Ambition focuses on five characteristics - purpose led; universal leaders, inclusive culture; advisory growth, delivery strength; global scale, local touch; and, digital first – which will differentiate our business in the future, enable us to stand further apart from the competition, attract and retain the best talent and be a recognised leader in societal impact – to become THE winning firm. At Deloitte, we tackle our clients' and society's challenges to create progress and possibility for those our work affects. We make an impact that matters. That's our purpose.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

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Location: This is an NSE role that is available to all NSE geographies, candidates must reside in an NSE Geography to apply. Applicants can expect some travel in support of delivery and collaboration, managed in line with our WorldClimate ambition.

Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You'll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.

You'll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities. Which means you'll be part of the NSE team. You'll spend most of your time working from home like all of your NSE colleagues in the Enabling Functions, or in a local collaboration space when needed. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.

You'll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We're continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and exciting technology developments coming soon. The future of work is evolving fast and we're already leading the way by enabling flexibility for our people and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.

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Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level. Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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