Jay Gould is a Senior VP at Citigroup where he is the Senior Advisor to the Enterprise Technology office.

He is currently working on Enterprise Architecture, Application Security, Data Governance, Business Process Management and Analytics. He has 17 years experience in the financial services industry leading various initiatives including rolling out Single Signon to over 1000 applications and 400,000 users.

A 25-year technology veteran, Jay is widely recognized as an influential voice in the Information Security and Data Governance community and has been a key speaker at numerous security industry councils and seminars.

Presentation
The Disciplines of IT Architecture – An IT Customer Perspective

Enterprise Architecture Enables:

• Enhance Risk Management
  • Organize our initiatives to better secure our systems, our data and our processes to create more commonality and reduce unnecessary complexity in our infrastructure and our business applications and processes, leading to enhanced risk management
• Support Growth
  • Create common categories to help us target IT investments
  • Create common standards to reduce the delivery time for new systems
  • Foster collaboration to improve our innovation capabilities and our ability to roll-out innovations developed in one business or region into other businesses and regions
  • Create common technology language to improve the assimilation of acquisitions
• Manage Cost
  • Move towards common standards and reduce unnecessary diversity of supported technology products to, over time, reduce support costs and provide additional vendor leverage opportunities
  • Reduce unnecessary complexity to reduce the delivery cost for new systems

The Architecture Council establishes and supports the Domain Teams that define the standards and strategies to deliver these objectives.

The Enterprise Architecture team also facilitates Citigroup's involvement with external technology standards organizations.

The presentation will also include a discussion of the distinctions between the various types of Architects

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