Enterprise Architecture Lead

Description

• Identify gaps in business capabilities and recommend technology solutions to enhance operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to prioritize application modernization initiatives.
• Establish governance models, policies, and standards to ensure consistency across the organization.
• Champion business, data, application, and technology architecture in the organization.
• Assess the current application landscape to identify redundancies, inefficiencies, and opportunities for consolidation.
• Define and implement business capability maturity models to assess and improve organizational effectiveness.
• Collaborate with leaders throughout the business to understand their needs and facilitate alignment across key business stakeholders.
• Foster a culture of innovation within the enterprise architecture team and across IT functions.
• Drive digital transformation initiatives by leveraging emerging technologies and innovative solutions.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework, ensuring alignment with business goals and IT strategy.
• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives to assess the feasibility of new technologies.
• Define and implement architecture compliance mechanisms to enforce standards across IT projects.
• Implement and lead an Architecture Review Board (ARB) to ensure compliance with architectural principles and best practices with technology evaluations.
• Collaborate with other T&I leaders on opportunities and challenges to enhance our service delivery.
• Partner with business leaders to map capabilities to technology solutions, ensuring strategic alignment.
• Develop and execute an application rationalization strategy to optimize IT investments and reduce technical debt.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and trends to identify opportunities for business innovation.
• Connect with leaders throughout the business to create awareness of T&I efforts and progress toward achieving those efforts.
• Guide architectural decisions for transformation programs, ensuring scalability and sustainability.

Requirements

• Occasional domestic travel, via airplane, will be required for meetings.
• Must be able to sit or stand for long periods of time.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a computer screen.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence and drive change across the organization.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• Expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Dragon1, DoDAF, Zachman, or similar.
• Certification in enterprise architecture such as Open Group® Certified Architect — Enterprise Architect, TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Practitioner, or similar certification.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Certification in Agile such as PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, Certified SAFe® Practitioner, ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP)®, or similar certification.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, IT strategy, or related roles.
• Proven experience in application rationalization, governance frameworks, and business capability modeling.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.

Benefits

• Role is hybrid, with most being possible for work from home. But attendance at important meetings and events at the relevant office is required.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance