Enterprise Architecture Director

Description

• Engage stakeholders to evaluate cost-benefit profiles of architecture initiatives.
• Define and track KPIs to measure EA effectiveness and business impact.
• Establish and lead architecture governance processes, including principles, standards, and decision frameworks.
• Provide reference architecture and guardrails to support agile delivery and safe experimentation.
• Build and mentor a high-performing team of architects across enterprise, business, and solution domains.
• Develop and lead the enterprise architecture strategy aligned with business goals and technology vision.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration and alignment with product, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and data teams.
• Provide training and guidance on architecture best practices.
• Present architectural strategies, risks, and options to executive leadership.
• Lead business capability mapping and ensure alignment of IT investments with strategic priorities.
• Communicate the EA charter, value proposition, and roadmap to stakeholders across business and IT.
• Lead modernization efforts to reduce technical debt, rationalize the portfolio, and enable innovation.
• Conduct scenario planning and trend analysis to guide technology investments.
• Ensure architectural decisions support scalability, interoperability, and security.
• Run technology experiments and integrate successful innovations into operations.
• Support change management efforts to drive adoption of EA standards and modernization initiatives.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and assess their relevance to business strategy.
• Translate business needs into architectural solutions that drive measurable outcomes.

Requirements

• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit and trade-off analysis, budgeting, and risk management.
• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Knowledge of all components of an EA function, business and IT principles, and processes.
• 12-15+ years relevant experience.
• Effective written and verbal communication, with the ability to simplify complex systems
• Senior-level expertise across technology domains: applications, data, cloud, infrastructure and security.
• Depth of expertise in modern architecture and methodologies.
• 18+ years of relevant experience, including 3+ years in a direct leadership role
• Strong leadership skills, along with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Typical office environment, including sitting, walking, talking, hearing, reading, writing, keyboarding, driving, filing, reaching, stooping, crouching, bending, standing for extended periods of time, lifting or carrying up to 40 pounds.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Familiarity with EA tools, graphical modeling approaches and repository management.
• Practical in approach to problem solving and decision making.
• Understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, such as generative AI and its applications.

Benefits

• Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance