Chief Architect

Reference Code: 74646**Chief Architect**:

- Richemont- Meyrin, GE, CH- PermanentRichemont owns some of the world’s leading luxury goods Maisons, with particular strengths in jewellery, fine watches and premium accessories. Each Maison represents a proud tradition of style, quality and craftsmanship and Richemont seeks to preserve the heritage and identity of each of its Maisons. At the same time, we are committed to innovation and designing new products which are in keeping with our Maisons’ values, through a process of continuous creativity.

**CONTEXT**

Richemont is undertaking a large-scale digital transformation which will propel it to become the dominant player in the luxury sector by serving its customers in a personalised and relevant way in a new omnichannel ecosystem. This is a unique yet very demanding position providing a once in a lifetime opportunity for a seasoned digital executive to fundamentally contribute to the digital transformation of the world’s most prestigious luxury group and secure its next phase of growth and prosperity.

We will be building a new omni-channel ecosystem which serves customers from all regions, especially China. This includes harnessing the power of mobile first, microservices, big data/analytics, internet of things, the cloud and modernising SAP to bring it to continuous delivery. We will very likely be building a multi-tenanted international platform based on highly scalable microservices which are dockerised and run from the cloud.

This role includes harnessing the power of the virtually unlimited Cloud, flexible Microservices, migrating the existing data centers to the Cloud, bringing the existing SAP ERP landscape to a full continuous delivery model, build and gain comprehensive insights from Big Data and connected manufacturers via the Internet of Things.

Reporting to Group CIO, this role will be vital to combine the powers of business and IT and thus gain and leverage new capabilities to advance our product offerings, market presence, culture and future legacy migrations.

**HOW WILL YOU MAKE AN IMPACT?**

**Business Architecture**
- Develop and maintain current and future state business architecture
- Cultivate relationships with business stakeholders
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of strategic business plans

**Information System & Technology Architecture**
- Design and oversee implementation of end-to-end integrated systems
- Deliver architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency in line with business strategy
- Cultivate relationships with IT management
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of the organisation's technologies and architectures
- Develop and maintain current and future state architectural blueprints (incl. SAP)
- Develop and maintain an aspirational architectural roadmap for the enterprise (incl.SAP)
- Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals and strategies
- Gain organisational commitment for enterprise level architecture and infrastructure initiatives
- Provide architectural direction to Enterprise Architects, Business Architects and Solution Architects
- Develop architectural metrics and reports for the executive team, business and IT management

**Data Architecture**
- Oversee the design and implementation of enterprise data and metadata structures
- Create a plan to integrate business systems and workflows in support of business strategy
- Develop and enforce best practices for master data management and integration
- Defines and develops methods for machine learning

**Architectural Programs & Initiatives**:

- Initiate and deliver architectural programs that align IT with business strategy
- Deliver requisite program documentation including program charters, schedules, requirements documents, specifications, design documents and testing strategies

**Research & Development**
- Initiate and deliver technology evaluations and recommendations

**Architecture Consultancy**
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of IT industry best practices, technologies, architectures and emerging technologies
- Provide architectural consulting to programs, projects and initiatives
- Support business and IT strategic planning
- Support product development teams
- Support local and specific Maisons CIO’s while migrating legacy systems
- Act as the focal point for enterprise architecture and IT standards

**Architectural Governance**:

- Develop, communicate and deploy Enterprise Architecture Governance processes (incl. SAP)
- Develop and communicate enterprise technology standards and policies
- Review new and existing program/project architecture for compliance with IT standards, policies and architectural plans
- Review IT procurement plans for compliance with IT standards and architectural plans
- Document exceptions to architectural standards
- Ensure that project documentation captures significant architectural decisions
- Ensure that architectural governance is a fair, consistent and transparent process
- Identify architect