Enterprise Architect

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 40 brands, 14,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, Allegion is proud to be recognized with the 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) for the third consecutive year, earning distinction in both the employee engagement and strengths categories.

This year, Allegion also received Gallup’s With Distinction honor — a designation reserved for a select group of organizations that go above and beyond in building exceptional workplace cultures.

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for efining and documenting the architecture of Allegion’s enterprise technology landscape, including commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platforms, custom-built applications, cloud services, data platforms, and integrations. This role reports within the Enterprise Architecture organization and works across global business and IT teams to shape enterprise-wide technology direction, guide solution decisions, and strengthen architecture governance. The Enterprise Architect provides guidance to delivery teams to ensure that IT solutions align with enterprise standards, architecture principles, and business strategy.

The Enterprise Architect will approach problems with a mindset of balancing delivery of business objectives with long-term stability, scalability, reusability, technical feasibility, security, and global applicability. This role requires close partnership with business stakeholders, solution architects, and technical leaders to align business goals with technology strategy and enable successful delivery through the Global Portfolio Management (GPM) process.

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. The company does not intend to provide sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, TN, etc.) for this employment position.

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive view of enterprise architecture across applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, cloud services, and enterprise technology platforms.
• Provide visibility into the enterprise application and technology portfolio to support lifecycle management, rationalization, modernization, and investment decisions.
• Collaborate on business capability mapping and portfolio analysis to identify opportunities to reduce redundancy, simplify processes, improve customer experience, and increase business and technology alignment.
• Provide architecture guidance across COTS platforms, SaaS solutions, custom applications, APIs, data platforms, and cloud-native services.
• Evaluate commercial off-the-shelf, SaaS, and packaged software options for business fit, integration capability, scalability, security, lifecycle risk, total cost of ownership, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Analyze business processes and recommend system, data, integration, and architecture improvements that support scalable and reusable enterprise solutions.
• Design and guide enterprise architecture reference patterns covering applications, integrations, data, cloud environments, and shared technology capabilities.
• Advise on integration design across systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, observability, data consistency, and security across APIs, middleware, event-driven architecture, and enterprise integration platforms.
• Support adoption of modern architecture practices, including cloud-first, API-first, data-driven design, automation, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Ensure technology solutions align with business strategy, enterprise standards, security requirements, architecture principles, and approved governance processes.
• Lead or contribute to architecture review boards and governance processes by preparing review materials, documenting decisions and exceptions, tracking remediation actions, and promoting reuse of approved standards and patterns.
• Ensure alignment of solution architecture decisions within the Global Portfolio Management (GPM) process and…