# 4. Enterprise Architect *Nature of the tasks* * Create business architecture models that reflect the organization’s strategies and goals * Integrate the project and program strategies and ensure alignment with business strategies and drivers, and management priorities * Identify ways to reduce costs in IT and business leadership * Evaluate systems for discrepancies or vulnerabilities * Conduct research to find ways to improve operations * Provide business architecture and systems processing guidance * Create and implement a business vision and multi-year plan *Education* - EQF 7 *Specific expertise and technologies* * Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, Zachman..., and actual experience developing and building models based on such framework * Knowledge of enterprise architecture notations such as ArchiMate, BPMN... * Knowledge of enterprise architecture tools such as ARIS... *Certification and/or Standards* * Not applicable *Skills* * Experience defining and implementing strategies under a CIO or equivalent * Ability to combine many different skills and experiences to address and solve business, information, and technology related opportunities and problems * Extensive experience with enterprise architecture best practices and goals * Excellent leadership and conciliation skills * Communications skills, both verbal (e.g.: presentations, seminars, etc.), and written (e.g.: reports, articles, etc.). * Group session facilitation. * Promotion skills (“selling” the results of architectural approaches through presentations). * Analysis and design. * Modelling and graphical representations and abstractions. *On-call services foreseen for this profile :* No --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://doc.montoyer.com/framework-contracts/digit-tm-ii/digit-tm-ii-profiles-description/4.-enterprise-architect.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.