Overview
Drives enterprise-wide adoption and optimization of cloud platforms, AI capabilities, and integration patterns to enable secure, scalable, and intelligent solutions. Translates organizational and business strategies into coherent enterprise architecture direction.
Key Responsibilities
- Drives enterprise-wide adoption and optimization of cloud platforms, AI capabilities, and integration patterns.
- Defines and governs cloud reference architectures, AI/GenAI adoption frameworks, Business-Led IT framework, accelerators, and integration strategies.
- Translates organizational and business strategies into coherent enterprise architecture direction.
- Applies industry trends pragmatically to advance WBG digital transformation goals.
- Produces high quality architecture artifacts that enable delivery teams to execute effectively.
- Works effectively with business leaders, architects, engineers, and Agile teams to co create solutions.
- Acts as an enterprise enabler, aligning diverse stakeholders around shared architectural standards and patterns.
- Demonstrates openness to feedback and integrates diverse perspectives into architectural decisions.
- Balances innovation with risk, compliance, and operational stability in architectural decisions.
- Leads the development of enterprise architecture frameworks and guidelines.
- Oversees the development and maintenance of documentation for architecture designs, processes, and standards.
- Guides the assessment of existing IT infrastructure and applications.
- Manages architectural reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and organizational goals.
- Monitors industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.
- Communicates architectural strategies to stakeholders.
- Manages collaboration with business leaders to gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into technical specifications.
- Oversees partnership with Agile teams to ensure architectural alignment, scalability, and technical guidance.
Required Experience
- Master's degree with 8 years of experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management, or related discipline; OR Bachelor's degree with 10 years relevant experience.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and governing cloud reference architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP) for large-scale, mission-critical environments.
- Proven experience establishing and enforcing enterprise guardrails to ensure coherence, interoperability, security, and compliance across cloud, AI, and integration domains.
- Proven experience driving enterprise-wide cloud adoption and optimization, ensuring scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
- Proven experience defining and guiding AI and GenAI adoption frameworks, including responsible AI considerations, architectural patterns, and enterprise enablement models.
- Demonstrated expertise in integration strategies and patterns, including API-led, event-driven, and data-based architectures.
- Strong capability to assess existing IT landscapes, identify architectural gaps, and recommend modernization or optimization opportunities.
- Proven ability to monitor industry trends and emerging technologies and apply them pragmatically to enterprise contexts.
- Experience leading or participating in architecture reviews, ensuring solutions adhere to enterprise standards, best practices, and business objectives.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience partnering with Agile delivery teams to ensure architectural alignment across iterative development cycles.
Qualifications
- Enterprise Architecture certification required (TOGAF, EACOE, or equivalent issued by The Open Group).
- Cloud Solutions Architect certification required (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or GCP equivalent).
