Platform Architect, Business Transformation

**ABOUT WFP**: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. WFP Technology Division (TEC, formerly known as IT) is the digital business engine of the World Food Programme, providing the business with multi-pronged and resilient technical capabilities able to respond with the agility required in humanitarian operations, be they manmade or in a natural disaster setting. TEC Division continues to increase its activities to meet the constantly growing demand from the organization and implement the initiatives related to digital transformation. **ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT**: The Architecture branch (TECA) is seeking a Business Transformation Officer with a passion and vision for building quality technology solutions to support WFP operations. Reporting to the Chief of IT Architecture Branch of the Technology Division, the Business Transformation Officer will play an important role in transforming business objectives into a cohesive and effective WFP Digital Landscape. They will use their substantial technical knowledge, with a focus on technical solution architecture, to analyse business needs and build the blueprint of a modern digital foundation for WFP. Working with the Architecture Team, Solution Architects and other TEC units, the Business Transformation Officer will also be part of thought leadership activities and provide strategic and tactical advice to WFP business units **JOB PURPOSE**: As a Platform Architect, you will be accountable for providing guidance to the end-to-end delivery of cloud platforms and solutions that enable business transformation, allowing customers to work faster, better and smarter. In this role you will play a fundamental role in the organisation's Platform Architecture, driving technology direction and advancement and you will provide leadership as part of multi-disciplinary agile teams while fostering and building relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders. This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced Platform Architect to work for one of the biggest humanitarian assistance organizations in the UN family. **KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)**: 1. Develop and evolve WFP's digital platform strategy, aligned to and prioritized by business priorities. 2. Ensure compliance with the digital platform strategy through the development of functional work plans 3. Continuously improve guidelines, processes, and procedures to assist Business Relationship Management, Business Analysis and IT Project Management functions 4. Participate in identifying business needs and propose well-researched ideas (by maintaining up-to-date knowledge of technology products) for new or improved systems and solutions that assist in meeting WFP objectives 5. As a principal role in the TEC Product Journey, use evidence-based criteria to provide in-depth analysis of IT solutions: make key decisions (example: "Buy before Build"), identify risks and prepare related documentation to support the design and delivery of digital solutions 7. Build and nurture relationships with the business counterparts to understand and anticipate the direction of the business and ensure alignment of solutions with changing business requirements and priorities 8. Manage business expectations in servicing business needs and oversee success of solutions, seeking ongoing opportunities to support or increase the business value from those solutions 9. Propose change and continuous improvements that supports business capabilities and keep WFP's digital landscape in good health by determining when existing solutions should be retired, rebuilt or transitioned to off-the-shelf solutions to ensure delivering value for business priorities 10. Manage a team of staff and/or contractors (as applicable), providing coaching, training and guidance to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance. **STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS**: **Experience**: - Demonstrated experience in managing technology projects and supervision of team members. - Experience in transforming business trends into target architectures and new solution designs. - Experience leading and making technology decisions that deliver positive customer outcomes; - Demonstrable experience in building and fostering relationships with stakeholders (including senior leader and relevant business and technical experts); - Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS & Azure - spanning IaaS, PaaS and SaaS); - A demonstrated ability in managing, coaching and developing members of your team & wider community. - Experience of bringing challenging projects back on track; - Previous accountability in creation and promotion of new products or services to meet the organisational strategy; - Participating in technology communities. **Education**: Advanced University degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics or Engineering or other related fields or First Universi