Senior Manager - IT Business Partner

Sumary:
The BP analyses, designs and develops roadmaps and implementation plans based on a current versus future state business architecture, and review the architecture standards for approval.
Leads and facilitates the business architecture governance process based on the enterprise architecture governance structure, and manages exceptions to architectural standards at a business level.
Assesses near term needs to establish business priorities and aligns architectural requirements with IT strategy. He consults with clients and IT teams on business architecture solutions and provides recommendations on emerging technology to senior management.
Strategic in their approach to managing resources and developing capabilities within the team. He is able to impress upon the team the need to continuously improve service levels and increase efficiencies and GreenFeed's "Blood".
Duties:
Formulate the organisation's architecturestrategy, roadmap, standards, policies and procedures, and governance
Lead and coordinate the domain technical and business discussions
Participate in ecosystem strategy development, environment analysis and opportunity identification
Analyse, design and develop roadmaps and implementation plans based on a current versus future state.
Lead and facilitate the business architecture governance process based on the enterprise architecture governance structure
Manage exceptions to architectural standards at a business level
Review and approve recommendations to business architectural standards
Develop architecture requirements and maintain oversight
Analyse and develop business architectural requirements
Align architectural requirements with IT strategy
Assess near-term needs to establish business priorities
Ensure compatibility with existing solutions, infrastructure, services and strategic requirements
Coordinate architecture implementation and modification activities
Assist in post-implementation and continuous improvement efforts to enhance performance and provide increased functionality
Ensure conceptual completeness of the technical solution
Manage quality and continuous improvement of architecture
Analyse the current architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvement
Identify and propose variances to the architecture to accommodate project needs
Perform ongoing architecture quality review activities
Research emerging technologies
Consult with clients and IT teams on business architecture solutions
Analyse cost versus benefits, risks, impact and technology priorities
Provide recommendations on emerging technology to senior management
Develop communication plans for business architecture
Lead the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in project development
Identify organisational requirements for resources
Drive business architecting
Oversee the definition of future-state and current-state business architecture
Explore methods to apply new technology to, and reuse existing technology, for business processes
Design business processes, functions and organisational structures
People Management
Review operational strategies, policies and targets across teams and projects
Develop strategies for resource planning and utilisation
Oversee the development of learning roadmaps for teams and functions
Establish performance indicators to benchmark effectiveness of learning and development programmes against best practices
Implement succession planning initiatives for key management positions