Enterprise Architect

The E-470 Public Highway Authority operates E-470, a 47-mile toll highway that spans the eastern perimeter of the Denver metropolitan area, connecting key points including State Highway C-470, I-25, and areas near the Denver International Airport. It is overseen by a Board of Directors comprising eight voting jurisdictions, including Adams, Arapahoe, and Douglas counties, as well as municipalities such as Aurora and Brighton.

Affiliate non-voting members include additional cities and counties, and ex-officio members include the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and other regional organizations. E-470 is a political subdivision of Colorado, dedicated to safe and efficient transportation solutions in the area.

We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Enterprise Architect to guide the technical and architectural vision for our organization. As an Enterprise Architect you will own the overall architecture of our platform consisting of multiple applications, ensuring the platform is resilient, scalable, secure, and aligned with business goals. You will align organization’s technology and its business goals by designing, maintaining, and evolving IT landscape.

You will collaborate closely with engineering teams, product managers, and leadership to define and shape the technology roadmap while providing hands-on guidance to the teams to deliver a cohesive and high-performing platform. This is a key role that requires both strategic thinking and a willingness to  roll up your sleeves  to solve technical challenges.

• Define and own the overall architecture for the organization’s platform, ensuring consistency, scalability, security, and efficiency across all applications.
• Establish architectural principles, guidelines, and standards to ensure uniformity and maintainability of the system.
• Act as the technical leader, providing guidance and mentorship to engineering teams on best practices and technical decisions.

• Collaborate with leadership to align the technology roadmap with business objectives, user needs, and organizational growth plans.
• Work with product and engineering teams to ensure the technical solutions align with long-term architectural goals.
• Identify and recommend technical investments and tools that will improve platform capabilities and operations.
• Collaborate with the five engineering teams working on different parts of the platform, ensuring they are aligned and collaborating effectively on architectural decisions.
• Foster communication and knowledge sharing between teams to avoid duplication and encourage reuse of components and services.
• Serve as the  bridge  between business stakeholders and engineering teams to ensure technical solutions meet business needs.

• Design and document the architecture of the platform, including APIs, data models, backend services, and integration points between applications.
• Evaluate and recommend third-party solutions, services, or tools that can integrate with the platform where necessary.
• Drive the evolution of the platform into a scalable, modular, and maintainable system as the organization grows.

• Help teams identify and resolve critical technical challenges, bottlenecks, or architectural issues.
• Expertly analyze the trade-offs between technical choices to make informed, pragmatic decisions.
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure adherence to organizational standards.

• Stay informed of emerging technologies, frameworks, and architectures; make recommendations for their adoption when appropriate.
• Advocate for the use of modern software development practices, cloud-native approaches, Dev Ops principles, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Ensure that architectural decisions and technical documentation are properly maintained and readily accessible to stakeholders.
• Define and enforce governance processes around architectural changes, ensuring compliance and technical alignment across the platform.

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  Bachelor’s degree in…