Enterprise Architect

Are you looking to play a pivotal role in shaping the technological future of a dynamic and innovative organization? We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Enterprise Architect (EA) to join our team and take ownership of our architectural processes and governance. As an EA, you will be instrumental in aligning business strategy with technology architecture, ensuring the integration of IT solutions to achieve organizational goals. Your strategic thinking and technical expertise will drive innovative solutions, guide cross-functional teams, and maintain governance to ensure business continuity and resilience.Your roleAs the Enterprise Architect, you will play a key role in aligning business strategy with technology architecture. You will own the GBI architecture process and governance, ensuring scalable and resilient solutions. Responsibilities include guiding engineering teams, maintaining architecture diagrams, supporting disaster recovery planning, mitigating technical debt, and driving compliance with industry standards. You will collaborate with stakeholders, improve governance processes, and communicate the value of architectural initiatives.Key Responsibilities:Strategic Alignment and Governance:• Defines and enforces enterprise architecture principles, standards, and guidelines across all projects and initiatives.• Defines and maintains an architecture mandate within GBI under the COO domain and Managing Board.• Collaborates with stakeholders to align architecture objectives with business goals.• Supports business case assessments from an architectural standpoint.Solution Design and Implementation:• Coordinates design and delivery of scalable, secure, and cost-effective technical solutions for projects by vendors and project teams.• Maintains a detailed understanding of infrastructure to optimize performance and resolve issues.• Initiates and facilitates Proof of Concepts (PoC) with the engineering teams to validate new solutions and technologies.Governance Business Continuity Management (BCM):Establishes and manages business continuity governance frameworks and processes.Ensures continuity and resilience are baked into systems and processes.Designs resilient infrastructure, applications, and processes by ensuring these align with BCM.Implements and runs automated tooling to capture the relationships between business processes, assets and end-to-end overview over the infrastructure and applications.Observability and Monitoring:Oversees implementation and management of observability tools and monitoring systems.Define metrics to measure system health and performance, ensuring reliability and early detection of anomalies.Supports definition of a process to enable engineering to act on observability events and warnings.Technical Debt Management:Identify, measure, and monitor technical debt across systems and projects.Recommends strategies and action plans to resolve technical debt in alignment with business and IT long-term goals.Collaboration and Leadership:Single point of contact for enterprise architecture acting as EA trusted advisor in the organization.Support operational and project teams ensuring architectural integrity.Facilitate cross-team collaboration to ensure successful delivery of solutions.Joins internal and external architecture board meetings of Engineering and Data and with vendors.Understands, adheres and promotes to the Corporate Values.Who are we looking for?A colleague open-minded, very curious by nature and passionate about your job. You are not afraid to handle various tasks at the same time and meet tight deadlines. You are thinking proactively and always a step ahead, finding solutions with both internal and external stakeholders. You are a cooperating person who listens and invests in the work & persons to achieve common goals. You must naturally think out of the box and navigate in a fast changing and complex environment by questioning the how & the why.Skills/Qualifications:7+ years of experience in enterprise architecture or related roles preferably in financial sector or banks more specifically.Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF, ArchiMate, ITIL) are a plus.Experience:Governance and Monitoring:Deep understanding of IT and architecture governance, processes, compliance, and risk management principles.Ability to define, measure, and monitor architecture principles and standards effectively.Architecture and Design:Ability to design and validate solutions with project teams and vendors.Manage end-to-end implementations from architectural standpoint, solving complex business requirements and supporting project teams to stay within budget.Expertise in developing enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).Proven ability to design solutions that balance scalability, security, and performance.Knowledge on architecture frameworks and Unified Modeling Language (UML).Technical Expertise:Strong hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-grade solutions.Proficiency in infrastructure technologies, cloud platforms, and observability tools (e.g., Dynatrace).Hands on technical expertise with managing and running Microsoft, Linux and DB products.Strong knowledge of disaster recovery and business continuity planning.Change Management:• Ability to proactively support and implement efficient change management by correctly assessing the business outcome versus change impact in respect with applications related changes and incidents.Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills:Capacity to analyse complex technical challenges and propose effective solutions.Ability to identify root causes of technical debt and provide actionable insights to address them.Leadership and Communication:Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with diverse teams and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.Proven ability to influence and guide organizational decision-making.Strong presentation and stakeholder management skills.Other:General knowledge of banking applications in different business areas (core banking, document management, payments systems, corporate / retail systems, compliance, treasury, finance etc.).Knowledge of software developments methods and Agile methodologies like Scrum.Knowledge of Atlassian stack tools Jira and Confluence.Strong communication skills and an international outlook.Effective listening and thorough analysis capacity.Deals effectively with pressure, remains calm, objective and in control in stressful situations.Education:Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.What we offer:Becoming part of a dynamic team in an international working environment.30 vacation days.13th Month.8% holiday payment.Laptop and Mobile phone.Annual extra appreciation payment.Pension Plan - Defined contribution scheme.Collective Health Insurance - discount on additional health insurance.Educational budget and access to Coursera trainings.Our organization:Work at Garanti BBVA InternationalGaranti BBVA International ("GBI") is a mid-sized European bank established in Amsterdam, the Netherlands since 1990 and serves corporate and institutional and retail clientele. GBI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Turkiye Garanti Bankasi A.S. (Garanti) and has presence in Germany, Switzerland, and Turkey. Our ultimate parent is BBVA. A dynamic "global boutique" bank, Garanti BBVA International offers fast, accurate, innovative, tailor-made and country-specific financial solutions in selected business lines through highly skilled and diverse talent management. We embrace creativity, are centered towards teamwork and oriented to create multicultural environment as we believe this to be a crucial element. Our vision is future-oriented and as one big team GBI strives for corporate excellence and goal achievement. By joining our organization, you will find yourself constantly challenged and must be prone to apply out-of-the box thinking.Life at Garanti BBVA InternationalGBI is a place for people who dream big and make their dream their goal. We look for people who will challenge the status quo in order to grow. We stand as one team, one family and together we are empowered to create our unique path, be agile, be curious and innovative. Strong partnerships ensure our success. Strong teams hold our foundation. We believe that diversity drives innovation and fosters personal development. We aim to create a working environment where employees are able to learn through support and coaching while contributing visibly to the success of the bank.Our Core ValuesGBI is part of BBVA, an integrated and innovative financial institution that looks to the future, created with the mission of financing people's dreams. That spirit continues to inspire us today and encourages us to transform people's lives by helping them make the best decisions to fulfill their dreams. This mission is underpinned by our Purpose: "To bring the age of opportunity to everyone." We live these values, which make us strong and allow us to achieve our purpose so we can keep creating opportunities.Customer Comes FirstWe see our work from the customer's perspective, as we incorporate their point of view in every decision we make and always put their interests first. We meet our customer's needs in an agile way, overcoming any difficulties that arise.Think BigWe want to amaze our customers with the best solutions to generate unique experiences. To achieve this, we set ambitious and inspirational challenges for ourselves, while questioning everything we do and posing new ways of doing things.One TeamWe are committed both to our individual role and the company's objectives as our own. We work as one team, trust our colleagues and break silos between units and hierarchical barriers.Application:If you are ready to join our team and contribute to the success of the company, we encourage you to apply by submitting your resume and a cover letter. You have two options to apply:Online Application: Click on the link below to access our online application portal and submit your application.Email Application: Alternatively, you can send your application documents (resume and cover letter) directly to hr@garantibank.eu.We appreciate your interest in our organization and look forward to reviewing your application. Should you have any questions or require further information, please don't hesitate to reach out.Please note that we do not appreciate any acquisition efforts for this vacancy by recruitment agencies.

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