Job Descriptions

Responsibilities:

• Lead the architectural development of business aligned strategies and roadmaps which will evolve into high profile, large scale complex projects and programmes.
• Responsibility for resolving complex and technically challenging issues associated with the technology stack to provide appropriate solutions to meet the business need.
• Drive the creation of the technology components of business strategies and relevant business area investment plans.
• Support business investment planning via strategy and roadmap creation, providing proposals for technology-led innovation and technical dependency guidance.
• Provide design continuity and consistency in all major solution decisions. Providing governance to ensure that all new capabilities and services remain aligned with strategic business plans and IT Strategy, architecture blueprints, policy and standards at all times.
• Align technology strategies and roadmaps with business requirements, organisation and industry standards, and support the process of breaking these down into high-level technical projects and programmes as required.
• Ensure compliance of all high-level business aligned strategies and roadmaps to the IT Strategy, architecture principles and all applicable standards
• Maximise the value of our technology investment, promote cost saving, where possible, and create roadmaps and target architectures
• Promote and encourage innovation throughout the team, to look for new answers and delivery of fresh approaches
• Liaise with strategic vendors to keep abreast of their technical roadmaps and to identify innovations or emerging technologies that could benefit Bord Gais Energy.
• Identify opportunities for research and development, incubating ideas and proof-of-concepts aligned to disruptive technologies that offer potential for our organisation

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Deep expertise around industry best practices in various aspects of IT, systems integration, continuous integration/continuous development, technology trends, enterprise operations knowledge and the ability to develop solutions to implement key business strategies.
• 7 -10 years as a Solutions Architect in an IT Consulting or Systems Integrator context or similar experience across several different industry verticals.
• Prior experience of the Utilities, Telco or Retail industries is highly desirable.
• Experience of Oracle utilities, Salesforce product suites is highly desirable
• Third level degree in IT or related subject

Skills

• Communication Skills
• IT Skills

Experience

• 7-10 years