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Hire an enterprise architect in Greece and Cyprus

The architect who owns the whole estate against the strategy: which systems stay, which go, how data and integration are governed, and a roadmap that survives the next reorganisation.

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A solution architect owns how one system fits with its neighbours; an enterprise architect owns the whole estate against the strategy. In Greek and Cypriot groups the need tends to arrive with:

A merger that left two ERPs, two customer databases and two of every integration
Several years of change planned at once, as banks and telecoms operators do
Many subsidiaries that should share one data architecture and do not
A public digitisation program whose vendors' systems have to talk to each other

The enterprise architects on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals who have been chief architects of large groups and financial institutions, led data governance for multinationals or run architecture practices at top consultancies. They carry the frameworks lightly and size the practice to the company.

What does an enterprise architect actually do?

Rationalise the application portfolio: which systems stay, which merge, which retire
Design the target architecture and the transition states between here and there
Set one data definition of a customer, a product and a number across the group
Define the integration and cloud strategy and the standards vendors build to
Chair an architecture forum that settles disputes between programs and vendors
Keep the multi-year roadmap honest as programs slip and priorities move

How to choose the right enterprise architect

What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.

Has merged two estates
Has taken two estates into one after a merger and can describe what was harder than the plan assumed.
Uses frameworks selectively
Can say which parts of TOGAF or a similar method they would leave out for a company your size.
Has stopped a project
Describes a project their architecture forum stopped or reshaped because it broke the target design.