Senior Manager: Enterprise Architecture

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you thrive in a collaborative environment that values exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptabililty, we invite you to consider joining our Information Technology department in our Chicago, New York, or London office as a Senior Manager:
Enterprise Architecture.

The Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture leads the strategic design, governance, and evolution of the firm’s technology landscape to support business objectives, modernization priorities, and long-term technology sustainability. The role serves as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders, aligning business capabilities, technology investments, vendor solutions, and AI-enabled opportunities with the firm’s strategic direction.

The position is responsible for developing enterprise roadmaps, establishing architecture standards and governance processes, and providing forward-looking visibility into technology lifecycle, modernization, integration, and technical debt considerations. The role evaluates emerging technologies, guides technology and solution decisions, and helps ensure investments support both immediate business needs and long-term enterprise objectives.

In this capacity, the Senior Manager leads enterprise, solution, and integration architecture activities, collaborates with infrastructure, application, data, security, and governance teams, and drives architectural consistency, technology rationalization, and reusable design practices across the enterprise.

Essential Functions:

Strategic Architecture & Alignment

• Develop and oversee future-state technology architecture and modernization strategies aligned with business objectives, capital planning and firm growth
• Design enterprise architecture frameworks, governance models, and technology standards that translate business strategy into actionable technology roadmaps
• Ensure alignment between business capabilities, technology investments, and enterprise architecture principles through stakeholder engagement and governance processes

Modernization & Transformation Leadership

• Lead IT modernization initiatives to reduce technical debt and support digital innovation
• Guide organizational responses to disruptive forces (including AI, cloud, and integration challenges) by assessing the impact of change initiatives on business outcomes
• Lead application and platform modernization initiatives to reduce technical debt and improve business agility
• Evaluate AI-enabled technologies and solution patterns to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, governance requirements, and strategic objectives
• Advance enterprise architecture practices to address AI governance, AI-enabled operating models, and responsible adoption of emerging technologies

Integration Architecture

• Lead integration architecture and interface design across enterprise platforms, applications, and data domains
• Establish integration standards and…