Rick Avis

A specialist in the role of an Enterprise Architect within financial markets. This is a senior position that works with both business and technology management to optimise IT investment across the organisation. Typically the role involves:

• Defining future business strategies that make effective use of technology.
• Creating technology strategies to compliment and support the business strategies.
• Ensuring key technology initiatives are aligned with the strategies.
• Facilitating technology convergence between application development teams.
• Implementing standards to ensure optimum use of the latest technology products.

In summary, managing the ‘big picture’ to ensure that technology investment budgets achieve the optimum return across all business areas within an organisation.