Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect – Aroha Technologies (Client: Ecommerce)

Location:

Boston, MA (Onsite)

Contract:

Long-term

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We are seeking an Enterprise Architect to join the Enterprise Architecture team focused on enabling business outcomes and shaping the organization's digital future. The team plays a strategic role addressing opportunities across people, processes, and technology and mitigating them through mature architecture, analysis, and design practices integrated into the enterprise delivery lifecycle. A key initiative is the development of an Enterprise Architecture Platform that consolidates IT data across the organization‑spanning strategy, execution, and maintenance to uncover redundancies, optimize operations, and inform technology planning and decision‑making at every level.

• Business Architecture Modelling: create business process maps, define capabilities, and analyze drivers, goals, opportunities, and constraints to shape actionable outcomes; partner with business, product, and engineering teams to define current and future‑state architectures, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and operational realities; map business team structures, identify optimization opportunities, and translate insights into executable architecture evolution roadmaps.
• Application Portfolio Management: lead the end‑to‑end portfolio management process including data collection, curation and integration into the Abacus EA tool; collaborate with vendors who publish EOL data sets and EA platform vendors to define meta models and working models; drive use cases such as technology obsolescence and end‑of‑life analysis, technology and application rationalization, cost/value assessments, risk and compliance reviews and dependency mapping to inform strategic roadmaps and lifecycle management.
• Solution & Technical Architecture Governance: define and enforce architecture standards, conduct design reviews, and ensure compliance with enterprise guidelines.
• Architecture Patterns & Design Practices: demonstrate mastery of modern architecture and design patterns across web, data‑intensive and AI/ML applications—including layered/hexagonal/clean architecture, microservices, event‑driven design, API‑first (REST/Graph
  
  QL), serverless, containers & orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes), CQRS and saga, streaming & batch data (Kafka/Spark), data lakehouse/data mesh principles, cache & performance patterns, resilience & reliability, observability, security & compliance by design, and AI/ML engineering; apply these to design scalable, secure, cost‑effective solutions and coach engineering teams.
• TOGAF & Archi Mate Knowledge (Nice‑to‑Have): familiarity with TOGAF (framework, ADM, governance) and Archi Mate notation for modeling strategy, business, application, technology, and motivation layers; read/create architecture views and meta‑models, ensure traceability from capabilities to solutions, and improve communication with stakeholders.
• Operational & Financial Data Proficiency: work with CMDB/asset inventories, finance/cost data (chargebacks, licensing/contracts), and application usage/telemetry metrics (APM, logs, traces) to drive fact‑based portfolio insights, rationalization and risk management; fluency with vendor/SLA data, technology lifecycle signals (EOL/EOS), cloud tagging & cost allocation (Fin Ops), and business capability mappings.
• Engineering Partnership: build strong relationships with engineering teams to enhance design‑to‑implementation synergy and improve delivery quality; ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and deliver measurable outcomes.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field;
  Master’s preferred.
• 8+ years of specific and related experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture or Technical Architecture roles.
• Proven track record in designing and implementing complex systems with attention to security, performance, scalability, and cost optimization.

• Strong understanding of architecture frameworks and tools (TOGAF, Abacus EA).
• Experience in retail domain highly desirable.
• Proficiency in technology selection, integration patterns, and governance models.

• Ability to translate business objectives into actionable architecture strategies.
• Skilled in cost‑benefit analysis and value‑driven decision‑making.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Collaborative mindset with ability to influence across organizational levels.