Position: Enterprise Architect
Company: Ciklum
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Ciklum is looking for an Enterprise Architect to join our team on a full-time basis. Working within the Ciklum IT department, the Enterprise Architect is responsible for validating, understanding, and translating business needs into feasible, appropriate, and strategically aligned business IT solutions. We consider candidates from across Ukraine and Poland. This job can be fully remote.

**Responsibilities:**
●	Validation and clarification of business needs, requirements (incl. functional and non-function) and constraints
●	Translation of business requirements into viable business technology solutions that align with Ciklum’s business strategy, IT strategy and target Enterprise Architecture
●	Researching, identifying and documenting potential solutions (options) to solve business problems and meet business needs. This includes identifying, assessing and selecting technologies, architectural styles and patterns needed to deliver solutions
●	Defining and designing at a high-level business technology solutions and architecturally planning their implementation (road maps). This should be undertaken holistically (incl. Business, Data, Applications, Technology, Integration, Security & Operational Architecture) and collaboratively with wider business and IT teams
●	Scoping and governing feasibility assessments of technologies, products and solutions
●	Assessing and documenting effort, risk, costs and complexity for solutions and their implementation
●	Assessing and balancing functional, quality, management and operational requirements
●	Effectively communicating architectural topics (designs, plans, choices, etc) to stakeholders using the most appropriate means, adjusting the level of detail and focus as necessary
●	Developing strong relationships with business stakeholders across the organization to ensure solutions are understood and meet business needs and requirements
●	Developing strong relationships with change delivery and operational teams to ensure solutions are understood and are implemented as intended or re-designed as necessary
●	Providing a “trusted advisor” relationship to business stakeholders regarding their aspirations, benefits and technical feasibility, providing healthy challenge, guidance and support
●	Communicating the options, designs, plans, risks and general position of a business technology project on behalf of the IT department in a highly-informed and trusted fashion
●	Working closely with Information Security to ensure solutions are compliant with Ciklum security and privacy requirements
●	Guiding, supporting and governing the lower level design, planning and implementation of solutions by projects and business and IT colleagues
●	Operating within and ensuring others also adhere to IT governance, including project and architectural processes
●	Analyzing, when directed, Ciklum’s current Enterprise Architecture and IT landscape, or subsets thereof, to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement, driving efficiency, agility and reuse
●	Keeping abreast of architecture and technology trends, approaches and frameworks
●	Championing the benefits of IT strategy and architecture across Ciklum

**Requirements:**
●	At least 7 years experience in a professional IT role or equivalent role
●	At least 2 years experience in a Solutions Architecture role or equivalent role defining, designing, planning, leading and governing significant business technology change
●	Knowledge and experience of multiple architecture domains – Business, Data, Technology, Security, Integration & Operational, with depth in Application architecture and ideally also depth in Data and/or Integration architecture
●	Ability to develop, and see through to implementation and operation, business outcome-focused Solutions Architectures for complex projects, to meet functional and nonfunctional requirements, ideally using a best practice framework using enterprise tools
●	Ability to analyze complex situations, environments or systems and form an informed, evidence-based assessment and recommendation
●	Ability to communicate the options, designs, plans, risks and general position of a business technology project on behalf of the IT department in a highly-informed and trusted fashion
●	Knowledge and experience of a variety of architectural styles such as Service Oriented, Microservices, Event-Driven, Client-Server, REST, etc
●	Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
●	Knowledge and practical experience of architectural modeling (Archimate, UML, etc) and the creation of architecture models, views and deliverables necessary for solution delivery
●	Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and issues clearly and succinctly to stakeholders at all levels of the organization
●	Ability to negotiate with stakeholders, resolve disagreements and issues, and positively influence outcomes
●	Ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders
●	Advanced spoken and written English
●	Ability to efficiently create clear, concise written documents, presentations, diagrams, architectural artifacts and deliverables in English

**Qualifications:**
●	Relevant degree-level education (BSc); postgraduate qualification desirable (MSc, MBA)
●	TOGAF, BCS EA & SA Practitioner, Zachman, IASA, IAF or equivalent qualifications or certifications is highly desirable
Personal skills:
●	Effective and comfortable in fluid situations and able to deal with ambiguity
●	Positive attitude, can-do mindset, high energy and a self-starter
●	A sense of urgency and the ability to work in a fast-paced multi-tasking manner
●	Ability to work in an unstructured and high-pressure environment, and bring order to this within their sphere
●	Understands and balances long-term (“big picture”) and short-term perspectives
●	A high degree of accountability and a track record of delivering on commitments

**What's in it for you?**
●	Participate in full-cycle software development process
●	Realization of your innovative ideas in building Ciklum Solutions and Services
●	Competitive package depending on your experience, skills and contribution
●	Friendly collaborative teams and enjoyable working environment
●	Various corporate and social events