Vice President, Enterprise Architecture, Data & Integrations

* Provide overall direction, guidance, and definition of enterprise architecture to support corporate business strategy and digital transformation.
* Work with business and technology leadership to understand strategic objectives, operating models, and desired business outcomes, and translate them into current and future state architectures.
* Lead analysis of business and operating models, market and industry trends, and emerging technologies to determine their impact on enterprise strategy and architecture.
* Develop and maintain enterprise-wide architectural roadmaps that connect strategy to execution, highlighting options, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
* Construct technology-enabled business and operating models and provide viable options to achieve targeted outcomes.
* Work with business architects and leaders to identify key drivers, capabilities, and business outcomes, and create diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables (capability maps, value streams, impact analyses, etc.).
* Lead analysis of current and future state business and technology capabilities to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities.
* Develop and present IT investment roadmaps and portfolio views that reflect the ability of the existing landscape to support future-state capabilities and ecosystem or platform strategies.
* Maintain alignment, integration, and coordination of architecture activities across programs, projects, and products over time.
* Design and maintain enterprise integration patterns and reference architectures to support connectivity across applications, platforms, and data sources.
* Lead implementation of integrations to enable secure, scalable, and real-time connectivity between systems.
* Conduct comprehensive assessments of current integration frameworks to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for simplification and modernization.
* Partner with platform engineering and operations teams to translate business requirements into technical integrations solutions.
* Establish monitoring, performance metrics, and governance frameworks to ensure integrations remain reliable, compliant, and cost-effective over time.
* Lead or influence the enterprise architecture practice, including defining required skills, competencies, and operating models.
* Recruit, develop, coach, and mentor architects and related roles where line management applies, or lead a community of practice where a federated model is in place.
* Promote architectural thinking and literacy across business and technology teams, providing training, knowledge sharing, and guidance.
* Develop and execute communication plans to increase understanding of enterprise architecture, its value, and its outcomes across the organization.
* Significant professional experience in business and technology roles, including strategic and operational planning, business analysis, or enterprise architecture.
* 10+ years experience across multiple disciplines such as business, information, solution and technical architecture, application development, platform or infrastructure engineering, data and analytics, or operations in complex environments. 5+ years of IT Leadership experience.
* Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional programs or portfolios and influencing senior stakeholders.
* Demonstrated experience in architecture design and deployment, systems or product lifecycle management, and infrastructure or platform planning and operations.
* Deep understanding of enterprise architecture concepts, methodologies, and frameworks, as well as business and operating model design.
* Deep understanding of modern integration frameworks to enable seamless interoperability, scalability, and security.
* Knowledge of modern technology landscapes, including cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, data platforms, and integration patterns.
* Familiarity with agile and lean methodologies, product-centric operating models, and scaled agile frameworks.
* Strong grasp of financial and risk concepts, including basic financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.
* Ability to perform high-level and detailed analysis, develop clear recommendations, and create actionable roadmaps.
* Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills with the ability to convey complex ideas to diverse audiences.
* Strong consulting skills, including stakeholder management, engagement management, influencing, and negotiation.
* Organizational savvy, with the ability to navigate complex political environments and build consensus.

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