Senior Enterprise Architect

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CAO stands for ''Chief Architect Office'' and is LGI's newly formed Enterprise Architecture Practice.

It was created to help better align technology across the various corporate divisions (CIO, CTO, CNO, POM) and across the countries. CAO is a new dept and is currently being integrated into the business.  The team is a mix of internal transfers of existing technology architects from CIO & CTO, plus some new joiners.  The team is still forming.

What is Enterprise Architecture?  Wikipedia sums it up nicely...

Enterprise architecture (EA) is the process of translating business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change by creating, communicating and improving the key requirements, principles and models that describe the enterprise's future state and enable its evolution.

Purpose Statement:

• Be part of the a team that drives E2E architecture definition and delivery across LGI corporate and countries.
• Support the 6 pillars of the architecture team.

Main Responsibilities:

CAO/LGI Responsibilities:

• Provide thought leadership and strategy across LGI for all aspects pertaining to wireless infrastructure and technologies; build knowledge capital for LGI from this information.
• Through the use of Proof of Concepts, work with vendors to test ideas for the future and for potential solutions for projects.
• Support the Technical Architecture Board (TAB) by attending meetings, providing technical comment and feedback, providing input into the TAB processes to refine and improve them.
• Support the CAO group in the definition of templates, blueprints, roadmaps, plans, processes,… so that CAO is recognized as an industrial leader in wireless technologies.
• Own and manage the CAO wireless blueprint and high level architecture.
• Align thinking, work and deliverables with other CAO workstreams under the Connectivity and B2B team – notably Cable, Fibre and IP Networks.

Delivery  Activities:

• Be able to analyze and provide impact assessments on the impact of wireless infrastructure and technologies on all projects and programs.
• For projects where the wireless infrastructure has an important impact on overall project delivery, take technical ownership of the E2E delivery of the project up to and including handover to operations.  This includes producing the High Level Architecture, technical specifications for the delivery teams to deliver to, test environment definitions and E2E testing.
• For projects that have only a limited wireless aspect provide technical guidance to the delivery team.
• Own the delivery of the High Level Architecture (HLA) for all projects with impact on wireless.
• Understand and support the Horizontal/Vertical matrix LGI project delivery approach.

Industry Activities:

• Work and liaise closely with relevant industry bodies.  For example IEEE, WiFi Alliance and CableLabs.
• Liaise directly with current and potential future vendors in the wireless domain.
• Where appropriate liaise with other MSO on their strategy and approach to using wireless technologies.