Lead Enterprise Architect, Engineering Excellence

Primary Purpose

The Lead Enterprise Architect, Engineering Excellence is a senior technology leader with a proven track record of shaping and advancing enterprise engineering strategy, architecture, and operating models to deliver measurable business value. This role defines the architectural vision, standards, guardrails, and reference patterns that enable consistent, scalable, and secure engineering practices across the enterprise.

Working across product, engineering, security, operations, and in close partnership with the Dev Sec Ops  team, the Lead Architect aligns cross-domain roadmaps and strategic technology direction to strengthen developer productivity, platform enablement, and delivery effectiveness.

As the Enterprise Architecture Lead for Engineering Excellence, this role drives the adoption of modern engineering capabilities by influencing technical direction, promoting technical excellence, and establishing the structures that support long‑term capability maturity. Through Communities of Practice, cross‑cutting ONETech expert teams, and Centers of Excellence, the role fosters the adoption of best practices, guides capability uplift across delivery teams, and ensures architectural direction is grounded in operational realities.

In doing so, the Lead Architect strengthens enterprise engineering capability, improves consistency and governance, and enables sustainable value realization at scale.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis. The position offers a flexible/hybrid work schedule, including three in‑person days at one of our core locations and two remote days.

• Align enterprise technology strategy and roadmaps to business objectives and multi‑year funding plans.
• Define enterprise blueprints that synthesize business, information, application, integration, infrastructure, and security viewpoints.
• Establish architecture principles, reference architectures, technology standards, and rationalization guidelines.
• Chair enterprise design authority/governance to guide decisions on scope, quality, risk, and total cost of ownership.
• Measure the value of enterprise architecture services; report outcomes, adoption, and technical debt trends.
• Advise executives on industry trends and emerging technologies; shape build/buy/retire decisions.
• Mentor principal/solution/domain architects; raise architecture maturity, methods, and tooling across Tech.
• Drive alignment across major transformation initiatives, ensuring architecture consistency across portfolios, domains, and strategic programs.
• Partner with product, engineering, and platform leaders to embed architecture practices into delivery, ensuring solutions adhere to enterprise standards and long‑term technology strategy.
• Be available during urgent IT incidents as needed and may be called upon to support critical escalations.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 12+ years in architecture with demonstrated leadership across complex, multi‑domain portfolios.
• Expertise in enterprise architecture practices (principles, standards, governance), roadmap development, and cost/value modeling.
• Exceptional communication, executive influence, and decision framing skills.

• Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), modeling (e.g., Archi Mate/UML), and portfolio governance.
• Background spanning cloud, data, integration, security, and end‑user domains.

$160,000 - $240,000