Description

The general role of a Functional Architect in Stellantis Manufacturing ICT:

• A functional architect acts as the connecting link between the technical architecture, which forms the ICT-foundation and the executed business processes.
• The functional architect is working with the business representatives and subject matter experts to understand and model the business processes. Those processes are based on a number of activities which are leveraging certain IT functions.
• The functional architect has to understand business needs and to analyze data, identify the right data to collect from operational IT systems, design a data model and datasets and take care of data consistency, act as advisor to make proposals to the business and find the most beneficial and efficient use cases  

Key responsibilities:

• Keep the business requirements, process-descriptions, functional architecture descriptions up to date.
• Knowing the business strategy and evolution.
• Support business to define their plan for the future and develop project requests.
• Actively support the estimation process for those projects as basis for an IT budget.
• Rank, prioritize and bundle projects, define project costs and savings.
• Prepare material-and-information system flow analyses (MIFAs).
• Be engaged in the different steps of the approval project.
• Create and update projects in central ICT tools and work closely with the project manager.
• Prepare and run technical project gate reviews.
• Organize and conduct regular status reviews of the complete domain.
• Develop a business transformation plan for the upcoming 1-3 years for the domain and agree with the business leads.
• Keeping up to date of industry standards and benchmarks for process and IT.
• Support all teams to take the best choice in term of IT architecture and design.
• Improving scalability and interoperability of architectures.
• Evaluate and select best strategy for the move to cloud.