Director, Enterprise Architecture

For more than 70 years, Master Brand has been shaping the places where people come together, enriching lives and creating meaningful memories for our customers. We are the #1 manufacturer of residential cabinets in North America, and our associates produce the most comprehensive portfolio of superior cabinetry products for the kitchen, bath and other parts of the home.

The Director, Enterprise Architecture is responsible for shaping and advancing the company's technology strategy, ensuring technology investments align with business objectives and support long term growth. This leader serves as a critical bridge between business strategy and technology execution, partnering with executive stakeholders to simplify complex technology environments, drive digital transformation, and build future ready capabilities across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, security, and AI.

The Director will lead a team of architects while influencing cross functional technology and business teams to establish technology standards, guide major investment decisions, modernize enterprise platforms, and deliver scalable, secure, and business focused solutions. This role requires a combination of strategic leadership, relationship management, business acumen, and technical depth to help drive enterprise transformation and operational excellence.

Develop and communicate the enterprise technology vision, strategy, and multi year roadmaps aligned with business goals. Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leaders on technology investments, transformation initiatives, risk management, and business capabilities. Lead enterprise modernization efforts across applications, cloud platforms, data, AI, automation, and digital technologies. Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities that create business value and competitive advantage.

Establish success metrics and measure the impact of technology investments and architectural decisions.

Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards, principles, governance processes, and technology roadmaps. Lead architecture review processes to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with long term business objectives. Drive simplification initiatives that reduce technology complexity, eliminate redundancy, and optimize total cost of ownership. Guide technology lifecycle management, platform rationalization, and modernization strategies across the enterprise.

Partner with business leaders to understand strategic priorities and translate them into technology capabilities and solutions. Identify opportunities to improve business processes through standardization, automation, digital transformation, and AI driven capabilities. Facilitate cross functional planning, prioritization, and decision making to ensure alignment between business and technology teams. Communicate complex technology concepts and tradeoffs in clear, business focused language.

Establish strategies and roadmaps for enterprise applications and business platforms. Assess opportunities to modernize, consolidate, replace, or enhance technology solutions based on business value and organizational needs. Collaborate with product, engineering, and delivery teams to ensure technology solutions support current and future business requirements. Promote reusable, scalable, and flexible technology designs that enable growth and innovation.

Lead, coach, and develop a high performing team of architects and technical professionals. Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and innovation. Influence and lead cross functional teams through complex transformation initiatives, often without direct authority. Build strong relationships across business functions, technology teams, vendors, and strategic partners.

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field;
Master's degree preferred.

10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, digital transformation, or related technology leadership roles.

5+ years of experience leading architects, engineers, or technical teams directly or through a matrix organization.

Proven success developing enterprise…