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Role of Enteprise Architect (Compentencies that are most needed in the…
Role of Enteprise Architect
Introduction
*According to Strano and Rehmani (2005)
Enteprise Architect are a significant role in business management within the organizational sturucture.
*This study is intended to provide a
deeper level of understanding of the specific value that the enterprise architect
brings to the enterprise that is different from existing management, analysis, and
engineering roles.
Role of the Enteprise Architect
:star: Change Agent
:star: Communicator
:star: Leader
:star: Manager
:star: Modeler
2. Communicator
Assists Manager, Analysts, System Architects and engineers in understanding the details of the strategy sufficiently well to make decisions and execute plan that leads to realization of the shared vision.
3. Leader
Creating a shared vision, motivating members of the enterprise to aspire to achieving the vision, and providing clear direction regarding what is required to execute a strategy to accomplish goals and objectives that result in performance improvements.
4. Manager
Organizes the architecture team and ensures that adequate resources are secured to perform the
architecture process.
5. Modeler
provides a representation of the relationships of enterprise components with sufficient detail and in the format needed to enable making necessary decisions to execute the strategic plan.
1. Change Agent
The Enteprise Architect supports enteprise leaders in establishing and promoting the best strategy to accomplish business goals and objectives.
Compentencies that are most needed in the role of Enteprise architect
:star: Analytical Change Management
:star: Communication
:star: Leadership
:star: Modelling
:star: Problem Solving Skills
:star: Business Acumen
:star: Technical Acumen
5. Problem Solving Skills
Problem solving skills are needed to identify problems and break them down into manageable pieces that can be studied and assessed to work out strategies to overcome the barriers.
4. Modelling
modeling was identified as competency needed by the enterprise architect. The enterprise architect needs to be able to model reality in a naturally graphic manner with detailed drawings illustrating complex relationships.
6. Business Acumen
Business acumen was referenced in two different ways which is Managerial Qualities and Acute Understanding
Managerial Qualities
Managerial Qualities such as experience with preparing business cases that show a clear return on investment.
Acute Understanding
Acute Understanding is what the enterprise was trying to accomplish within a particular context.
3. Leadership
Leadership is needed to be able to help create a vision that everyone is motivated to achieve and provide the guidance needed to make the vision achievable.
7. Technical Acumen
Technical Acumen is needed to enable the architect to consider different capabilities that might be the best alternatives to solving the challenges in moving the enterprise toward its target vision.
2. Communication
Communication skills are a critical competence to be an effective enterprise architect who must communicate concepts people who are generally pragmatic in
their thinking and struggle with understanding and expressing concepts.
1. Change Management
Change management is needed to be able to facilitate the implementation of the target enterprise architecture.
The unique role that the enterprise architect provides is
aligning technology with
the business goals and objectives
by managing the complex set of interdependencies
to communicate a common or shared vision of the strategic direction of the
enterprise.
Broad categories of functional interfaces for the enterprise architect are:
:star: Business strategists
:star: capital investment planners
:star: external stakeholders
:star: functional groups
:star: other architects
:star: oversight officials
:star: program/project managers
:star: senior executives
3. Interfaces with other enterprise architects
To ensure concordance of the architectures and
oversees the quality of the EA
2. Interface with Functional Groups
To assist the functional groups in understanding the
complexities of the architecture so that the architecture is properly implemented to achieve the desired performance outcomes and help ensure that each group is collaborating with the appropriate other groups.
1. Enterprise architects interface with external
stakeholders
To ensure that their interests are adequately represented in the enterprise architecture and to collaborate on optimizing the architecture to best serve their collective needs.
4. Interface with senior executives
to ensure that senior executives are cognizant of the level of commitment in terms of resources needed to execute the different architectural options so that practical choices are made that can be realized.
The impact of not having the role filled is the
increased potential for chaos and confusion, inadequate information to support key decisions, increased complexity, local versus enterprise optimization, reduced efficiency and effectiveness,
and increased risk of finding the wrong solution.
The Enterprise Architect must interface with everyone in the enterprise who needs to have a clear understanding of strategic direction of the
enterprise and the plan of execution to move the enterprise in that direction and anyone outside of the enterprise who has a stake in the enterprise’s outcomes.
The categories of organizational positioning of the role of enterprise architect include administrative board of directors, financial management, nformation technology, operations management, and strategic planning office.
Conclusion
The role of the enterprise architect is one
of making order out of chaos by taking the overwhelming amount of information available and presenting it in a manner that enables effective decision-making. The enterprise architect must be able to clearly communicate the relationships among technology, people and processes to enable greater efficiency and effectiveness across the span of the enterprise.