Skill description
Aligning an organisation's technology strategy with its business mission, strategy and processes and documenting this using architectural models.
Guidance notes
Enterprise architecture is typically considered across four domains: business, data, applications and infrastructure technologies. It may also include information security or legal and regulatory compliance.
Activities may include, but are not limited to:
- translating business strategies and objectives into an operating model.
- assessing current capabilities and identifying required changes to achieve objectives.
- developing and maintaining roadmaps to guide the transition from the current state to the future state.
- describing the interrelationships between people, organisation, services, processes, data, information, technology and the external environment.
- creating, iterating and maintaining architectural models and views that embody key principles for the organisation's future state and evolution.
- implementing enterprise architecture working practices to support and enable iterative/agile working.
- interpreting business goals and drivers.
- documenting and communicating constraints, standards and guiding principles necessary to define, assure and govern the required evolution.
- using architectural models and processes to facilitate changes in the organisation's structure, business processes, information or data, business systems and infrastructure.
- describing where and why the enterprise will benefit from cloud-based services.
Level 5Ensure, advise
Develops models and plans to drive the execution of the business strategy, taking advantage of opportunities to improve business performance.
Contributes to creating and reviewing a systems capability strategy which meets the business's strategic requirements.
Creates and maintains roadmaps to guide the execution of business strategy and capability improvements.
Determines requirements and specifies effective business processes, through improvements in technology, information or data practices, organisation, roles, procedures and equipment.
Level 6Initiate, influence
Develops enterprise-wide architecture and processes to embed strategic change management within the organisation.
Leads the creation and review of a systems capability strategy aligned with business requirements.
Develops roadmaps for enterprise architecture and initiatives, ensuring stakeholder buy-in.
Captures and prioritises market and environmental trends, business strategies and objectives, identifying alternative strategies.
Develops business cases for approval, funding and prioritisation of high-level initiatives.
Sets strategies, policies, standards and practices to ensure compliance between business strategies, technology strategies and enterprise transformation activities.
Level 7Set strategy, inspire, mobilise
Directs the development of enterprise-wide architecture and processes to embed the strategic application of change in the management of the organisation.
Directs the creation and review of an enterprise capability strategy to support the strategic requirements of the business.
Oversees the creation and implementation of roadmaps to guide long-term enterprise transformation and strategic alignment.
Identifies the business benefits of alternative strategies.
Ensures compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices.
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