Senior Manager, NAFTA Enterprise Architecture

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About Us

Mercedes-Benz USA is responsible for the sales, marketing, and service of Mercedes-Benz and Maybach products in the United States. Our people reflect a strong commitment to our values, our customers, and excellence. We are looking for exceptional talent to join the Mercedes-Benz team and help shape the future of our business.

Job Overview

The Senior Manager – Enterprise Architecture NAFTA sets the regional architecture direction to ensure technology decisions support business priorities, modernization goals, and target-state outcomes. This role partners closely with Mercedes-Benz Group AG (MBAG) and regional business and technology leaders to align NAFTA priorities with global principles, standards, and target architectures while translating enterprise strategy into practical regional roadmaps.

The role leads enterprise architecture across business, application, data, integration, cloud, AI, and infrastructure domains and serves as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across NAFTA. It drives architecture governance, informs portfolio and investment decisions, and enables transformation through reusable standards, clear target states, and multi-year roadmaps.

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision for NAFTA, aligned to business strategy and operating model priorities.
• Develop and communicate target architectures and multi-year roadmaps that drive modernization, simplification, and capability enablement across NAFTA.
• Partner with MBAG and regional stakeholders to translate global architecture direction into actionable NAFTA priorities, standards, and execution plans.

• Lead enterprise architecture governance, including Architecture Review Board activities.
• Establish and enforce architecture principles, standards, and guardrails.
• Review major initiatives to ensure alignment with target architecture and enterprise standards.
• Prepare clear decision materials for senior leadership and executive forums.

• Provide oversight across business, application, data, integration, cloud, and infrastructure architecture domains.
• Guide cloud modernization, platform standardization, and integration strategy.
• Drive portfolio rationalization across NAFTA by leading transformation initiatives that reduce application and technology complexity through harmonization, consolidation, and simplification—improving efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements, including security, scalability, resilience, and performance.

• Shape enterprise data and analytics architecture direction.
• Guide the adoption of responsible AI and emerging technologies.
• Provide architectural leadership for AI adoption by defining patterns, standards, and guardrails that ensure AI solutions are secure, responsible, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
• Ensure alignment with data governance, security, and compliance requirements.

• Act as the bridge between MBAG, NAFTA business leaders, product owners, and technology teams.
• Translate complex technology concepts into clear business language.
• Influence investment, portfolio rationalization, and modernization decisions through architecture insight and target-state guidance.

• Lead with influence, clarity, and strong cross-functional collaboration.
• Build and develop a high-performing enterprise architecture capability across the region.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and knowledge sharing.
• Coach and develop team members to strengthen architecture maturity, decision quality, and business impact.
• Provide direction in complex environments and drive performance through strategic alignment, simplification, reuse, and continuous improvement.

This role partners closely with MBAG enterprise architecture leadership, global domain architects, and senior technology leaders across NAFTA to align regional priorities with enterprise standards, roadmaps, and transformation goals.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Computer Science
• Information Technology

• Preferred certifications include TOGAF and cloud architecture credentials such as Azure or AWS.
• The ideal candidate will complete current and future Mercedes-Benz-required certifications and learning programs relevant to the role.

• 15+ years of IT experience with deep expertise in enterprise architecture, transformation, and complex technology landscapes.
• Experience with architectural transformation, radical standardization, and process mining initiatives in traditional auto OEMs’ business and financial services.
• Proven leadership in cross-functional environments, including team development, coaching, and stakeholder influence.
• Strong command of enterprise architecture frameworks, governance practices, standards, and corporate IT policies.
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs and guide…