Enterprise Architect - IT

MindGen Solutions is a recruitment firm and specializes in hiring managerial and leadership talents across technologies and domains.

We have an opportunity for a Enterprise architect for one of our MNC client, which provides IT Services and is one of the world's largest consulting, outsourcing and professional services company.

Job Description:

Experience: 13-18 years

Location: Bangalore/Mumbai

- The Enterprise Architect will work closely with key stakeholders across the group, taking full architecture and/or solution ownership of pre-sales proposals, bids, project delivery and/or project implementation activities. Typically, this will also include preparing and presenting senior executive briefings for CIOs and CTOs, as well as shaping and forming Company's product offers with key vendors and suppliers.

- Must have a depth of experience in selling, scoping and delivering business strategy, business and IT transformation, IT architecture, development and integration to clients across multiple sectors including the financial, retail, automobile and public sectors.

- The successful candidate is skilled across the full lifecycle from business development, successfully selling, solutions scoping and shaping through to delivery and running.

- A significant amount of IT experience, extensive technical understanding, strong consulting, stakeholder management and leadership skills in order to maximise their clients return on investment, are essential.

Essential Skills:

- Business value driven strategy and transformation.

- Business and technology consulting.

- Commercial awareness and solution proposition.

- Enterprise IT architecture capability, design and application of methodologies.

- Team development, leadership and management.

Excellent technical understanding covering areas such as :

- Mid Range, Storage, Backup and Archive, Virtualisation, Data Centre Transition, Data Centre Consolidation, Network, Citrix and VDI, Windows 7, Active Directory, Messaging and Collaboration, ipad2, Blackberry, Private/GIO Cloud, Public Cloud, Technical Cloud Solution and Innovation.

- Project/programme and portfolio management.

- Business and technology solution design, development, delivery and run.

- Service oriented architecture/cloud computing.

- Large-scale systems transformation, design and implementation.

- Business, technical and product innovation.

Person Profile:

- Exceptional client-facing skills.

- Capability to articulate technical solutions to technical and non-technical people.

- Strategically oriented, but able to lead all aspects of technical delivery.

- Very strong negotiation and commercial skills.

- Very strong presentation skills.

- Expertise in full project lifecycle and applies most appropriate methods to meet client needs.

- Able to work effectively in pressurised situations and can be relied upon to deliver, irrespective of circumstances.

- Able to work on own with limited assistance /direction from others, although not afraid to seek help/advice where required, delegating tasks effectively to ensure best use is made of own time.

- Exudes enthusiasm and optimism at all times.

- Focused on delivering a high quality solutions to clients, both internal and external.

- Self-motivated with a flexible and dynamic style.

- Able to craft effective, creative and innovative delivery solutions.

- Effective project/time management skills.

- Must be fully flexible and mobile.