Enterprise IT Architect

As an Enterprise IT Architect, you play a crucial role in defining, supporting and governing strategic transformations.

During the shaping of the target operating model with management (C-level), you bring in those elements of the IT Strategy which might influence the outcome of this exercise. You take the lead in determining the relevant technology investment horizon based on the differentiation nature of the business and IT functions to be delivered.

We change it

After developing the strategic framework and the target operating model, you will define the To Be target of the business and application functions, together with the Enterprise Business Architect. Subsequently, you will define the projects and their relationships required to deliver the To Be architecture.

You don't do this alone, but collaborate closely with the other members of your core team, consisting of the following roles:

• Transformation manager / Roadmap coordinator
• Business representative
• Enterprise Business architect
• Change manager
• Representative of the IT Organization

In this way we guarantee a balanced roadmap which takes sufficient account of the various important aspects such as business priority, change readiness of the organization, architectural optimization, risks, resource availability, dependencies, costs, revenues, timing... In the program team there is NO hierarchy: everyone looks at the proposals based on their expertise and the goal is to have the team members challenge each other to come up with the best solution for the organization.

We govern it

Once the roadmap is ready and approved, you will remain responsible for its implementation. Together with the core team you will start projects that will realize parts of the roadmap architecture. In concrete terms, this is done by handing over to the mirror role at project level: the IT solution architects are your mirror role at project level.

Next, you will continue to follow up on the projects (from an Enterprise IT Architecture perspective) by organizing communities and setting up reviews.

During the implementation phase, significant adjustments may still need to be made to the architecture: e.g. based on feedback from the projects, changing market conditions and/or the annual review of the roadmap.

Finally, during the process, you will monitor the dependencies of your roadmap with the other strategic roadmaps of the organization.

Why choose Myreas?

Our origin: the EA context of the Colruyt Group

The Colruyt Group is the only "Architecture-driven" company in Belgium and maybe even in Europe. Decisions are not made by those who hit the table the hardest, they are made by an architectural process and architectural boards The management takes all decisions based on an architectural foundation and rationale.

C-Level is being given EA training to learn “Architecturese” (the language of EA’s)

C-level must explain and defend the architectural recommendations to the Colruyt Group Architecture board (CEO, COO, CIO, Head of Bus. Arch, Head of IT Arch) in order to demonstrate their full commitment

Our extensive toolset

Our methodology for applying Enterprise Architecture is firmly rooted in TOGAF and ArchiMate, which we’ve been putting to work relentlessly keeping what worked well, tossing what didn’t and adding what was missing.

The result is an extensive toolset fit for the purpose of applying Enterprise Architecture. This toolset encompasses Strategy definition, Enterprise Business, Application and Technology Architecture, Transformation & Portfolio Management and specific deepdives in Architectural Notation, Tooling and governance.

As said, we took a lot of inspiration from TOGAF and ArchiMate, but we enriched our methodology with other tools and techniques such as the Target Operating Model framework (from Ross & Weill) or Pace Layering (from Gartner) to name just two.

Our collaboration between business and IT

The Enterprise Architects are always staffed in "duo" (an Enterprise IT Architect and an Enterprise Business Architect). Together they collect the high-level architectural requirements, translate these into different options and make recommendations to the management. Enterprise Architects are staffed in duo because each discipline has its own focus (Business or IT) and by challenging each other. they arrive at the best proposal. In addition, there are EA governance structures at Corporate Level, Capability Level and Program Level.

The mindset of a start-up

A start-up

Myreas is a small niche company, with a flat structure and a minimum of company rules. Myreas staff are shaping their own company and all colleagues are invited to help: “We will define our future together”.

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