Enterprise Architecture Director- OSS
- Colt Technology
- 20 - 30 years
- Noida, Gurugram
- 20 days ago
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Job Description
Job Title: Enterprise Architecture Director (OSS)
Colt provides network, voice and data center services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.
Why we need this role
This role is central to shaping Colts enterprise architecture strategy, with a strong emphasis on OSS technologies and core networking. As a key architectural leader, you will drive innovation and ensure that our technology landscape remains fully aligned with business goals and future-state capabilities.
You will lead a team of talented architects, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and define the strategic direction and roadmap that support transformation initiatives across the business. Your deep understanding of OSS platforms, combined with your ability to balance strategic vision and hands-on technical insight, will bicritical in delivering scalable and forward-thinking solutions.
Were looking for someone who thrives on making a real impact someone who can connect strategy with execution and is passionate about delivering measurable business outcomes through architectural excellence.
What you will do
Formulate Strategy and Guide Execution
Understands disruptive forces and the business economic & financial levers that affect transformation, to effectively guide technology investment decisions.
Facilitates business and IT alignment through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner.
Formulates, translates, advocates and supports strategy to achieve the organizations targeted businessoutcomes.
Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determinetheir potential impact on the enterprises business strategy, direction and architecture.
Provides perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate.
Facilitate Innovation
Scans for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business.
Contextualizes technology trends based on social, economic, political and other nontechnology trends.
Identifies technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enables business strategy and deliver expected business outcomes.
Plan and Manage the IT Portfolio
Works closely with the (PMO) project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with the promised outcomes throughout the project or product lifecycle.
Presents gap analysis and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT estate, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around technological platforms.
Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on businessrequirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams.
Collaborates with infrastructure, security, data and business process teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
Orchestrate the Delivery of Business Outcomes
Works with business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context.
Leads analysis of the business future-state capabilities and future vs current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business forward.
Ensure the core EA team works closely with extended EA team members across the organization.
Ensures the role of EA in the project and product governance setting is one of guidance, advice and oversight.
Oversees the documentation of all architecture design and analysis work.
Develop the EA Practice
Creates reference architectures focused on detailed integrations, major systems and dependencies between business and IT.
Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).
Promotes the business value of EA as an enabler of strategy formulation, and as support for technologyinnovation, which drives the organizations top and bottom lines.
Contributes to the maturing of the enterprise architecture practice into an centre of excellence.
Plans and manages a talent pool of architects to help deliver the goals, objectives and outcomes of theorganization.
Assist in building/maintaining a skills inventory, and manage a plan to close the skills gap for EA team memberswhich identifies trainings/coaching required to help them develop and progress in their careers.
Participate in industry forums to represent our business and to harness standardization which will support our business
Build and Maintain Relationships
Provides consultative advice to business leaders and organizational stakeholders with actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organization, using technology to make that change happen.
Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of product decisions.
What we're looking for
Experience
Strong experience as an enterprise architect, with a clear specialization in OSS (Operations Support Systems) and core networking control.
Ten or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis.
Ten or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution ortechnical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management oroperations in a multitier environment.
Certifications required TOGAF, Certified Architect(CA), Zachmann , SAFE agile
Skills
Strong knowledge of OSS technology and core networking control.
Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS),SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT servicesmanagement, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
Excellent analytical and technical skills.
Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas andconcepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Excellent planning and organizational skills.
Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture.
Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: OtherRole Category: OtherRole: OtherEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Colt TechnologyLocation(s): Noida, Gurugram
Keyskills: Leadership Strategy OSS Stakeholder Management Enterprise Architecture Principal Architect roadmaps
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