Principal - Architect (Finance)

• Responsible for the overall architecture related to the Finance solutions.
• Develop enterprise-wide architecture strategy and design future-ready ecosystems that meet the strategic requirements of the business.
• Be a trusted advisor to a range of stakeholders. Provide consultancy and influence senior leadership teams. Facilitate decisions ensuring the agreed solution balances functional fit, cost, service quality and systems management requirements at a high level. Drive out adoption of new technology and re-use of existing technology decisions as appropriate.
• Key contributor to the wider Marketing IM Architecture strategy and roadmap, that meets the requirements of the business. Facilitating development of enterprise-wide solutions that include business and technology capabilities and defining and communicating the current and future state architecture for a business portfolio including roadmaps and technology investment prioritization.
• Provide architectural leadership to multi-disciplinary teams and drive architecture workshops, review boards, and collaboration sessions.
• Provide consultancy in the start-up phase of projects to ensure high-level solution assurance as well as providing high-level design assurance throughout project delivery.
• Understand production plan, identify, and manage project design dependencies and design decisions, and provide support for identifying resource expertise based on solution complexity and design.
• Review and challenge the high-level cost of proposed solutions ensuring cost covers all aspects of technical elements, infrastructure, work breakdown and resource cost.
• Effectively engage and manage key stakeholder relationships collaboratively within the architecture community and the wider capabilities of Marketing IM, Group IM, Digital, third party vendors, and within relevant business areas.
• Modernize the Marketing architecture, leveraging the latest trends in the technology, including determining the right platforms and architecture with scalability consideration.

• Responsible for capturing, prioritizing, incubating, and exploiting market and environmental trends to the benefit of Marketing, working in collaboration with colleagues from the business, Digital, BI and Group IM.
• Proactive contributor to the Architecture Community of Practice, encouraging innovation amongst the community and supporting individuals and teams to share creative ideas and learn from failures.
• Ambassador for innovation, with the ability to connect relevant technology advancements with opportunity for business strategy execution.

• Defining and implementing architectural quality controls, standards, and practices to ensure compliance and cohesion between business and technology strategy and Marketing transformation activities.
• Responsibility for defining and maintaining best-practice, high value, architecture artefacts.

• In depth Functional and Technical expertise in Finance solutions
• Proven experience working in a commodities/financial environment in strategic IT roles at senior technical level
• Experience of SAP and other third party products implementations involving multiple entities
• Deeper understanding of the Finance and performance reporting, tax and treasury management process.
• Expert in using enterprise solution architecture tools and techniques
• Expert of architecture governance and design assurance processes
• Experience of Commodities value chain (Trade Lifecycle), Contract to cash
• Knowledge of Physical and Financial markets in mining or commodities industry.
• A proven track record of delivering business value from technology by aiding clients to develop and govern their enterprise architecture
• Deeper understanding and knowledge of digital trends in commodities Finance space
• Strong working knowledge of the latest digital and emerging technology solutions and how these can be leveraged to business advantage.
• Proven experience of project and programme delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall etc)
• Demonstrated understanding of architecture deliverables through the project life cycle based on complexity and timeline of projects/programmes
• Experience of working in a multi-vendor and supplier environment, maximising value delivered from Marketing IM's investment in Microsoft services
• Good stakeholder engagement and influencing skills with colleagues, partners / vendors & project sponsors
• Experience of developing enterprise architectures in large corporate environments, including strategy formulation, roadmap development and target architectures
• The ability to negotiate complex issues and how to reach a consensus with key stakeholders through an understanding of modern technologies
• Demonstrate experience in participating in large scale software development projects, providing advice, guidance and architectural services into engineering teams and programme delivery teams

• SAP (FM, Ariba, AFC),FIS Quantum, Anaplan, Blackline
• Experience with various structure and unstructured data solutions
• Deep understanding and experience of creating cloud based microservices architecture with Azure/AWS cloud
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Deep understanding of Azure DevOps
• Experience designing analytics solutions driving insights from large data sets
• Strong experience of business driven and test-driven development

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Amazing opportunities for learning and growth - from technical training to leadership programs, we bring out the best in our people
• We're a large, successful multinational company and there are plenty of opportunities internally to move onwards and upwards too

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