Chief Technology Officer at Companies & Intellectual Property Commission

Required minimum experience: 

• 10 to 15 years’ experience in IT
• Success in defining and implementing effective IT governance frameworks and architectural processes within a large corporation
• Ten or more years of relevant leadership experience in enterprise technology strategy development, application and infrastructure portfolio management, global enterprise architecture, technology team transformation, crisis/risk management, IT strategy development and execution

Deep knowledge of/experience with:

• Enterprise, application and information architecture
• Technology road mapping
• Applications technology strategy
• Architecture group leadership and reengineering
• Extensive technology vendor management experience implementing third-party technologies within complex environments
• Recent experience leading senior architecture groups covering applications and infrastructure

Key performance areas:

•  Lead and manage a team of technology and business architects that are responsible for setting architectural and technology direction for the organization.
•  Define and implement consistent architecture and technology governance practices for the organization throughout the planning and delivery cycles. Provide both technology and architecture oversight and governance as part of this process.
•  Lead architecture efforts that promote and implement greater architectural consistency and technology sharing across the organization.
• Promote the role of architectural best practices; communicating effectively with all key stakeholders and actively promoting the needs and benefits of governance, architecture and standards.
• Lead efforts with the Divisional Manager: Service Delivery to define the overall technology strategy and ensure the realization of goals such as reuse, infrastructure simplification, cost management and flexibility
•  Build strong cross-organizational relationships and effectively influence staff across the IT organization and broader enterprise.
• Develop the architecture community within the Division and mentor architects in the development of their skills.