Enterprise Platform Architect

Responsibilities Platform Architecture & Standards

• Advise on and influence the development of enterprise platform architectures, including creating reusable patterns, reference architectures, and technical standards. Collaborate with platform teams and architecture governance bodies.
• Provide guidance on using shared platforms and services (cloud, integration, identity, Dev Sec Ops , data, middleware) and help teams align with enterprise principles while maintaining delivery autonomy.
• Work with the Business Enablement, Information Security, and Platform teams to ensure platform designs meet security standards, are resilient, scalable, and operationally effective.
• Translate enterprise architecture principles into practical guidance by creating platform blueprints, decision trees, deployment patterns, and reference examples for consistent use across teams.
• Promote the adoption of reusable platform patterns, golden paths, and reference implementations to accelerate delivery and reduce cognitive load for development teams.
• Support platform teams in evolving standards and patterns by providing enterprise context, cross‑domain insights, and impact analysis without direct ownership or enforcement.

• Serve as a senior platform architecture advisor to Business Enablement and Platforms, guiding design decisions, trade‑offs, and roadmap alignment.
• Support solution and delivery teams by explaining the platform’s capabilities and limitations, discussing integration methods, and providing architectural direction for complex initiatives that involve shared platforms and enterprise services across multiple domains.
• Provide architectural direction for complex projects spanning different domains that use shared platforms and enterprise services.
• Influence platform adoption and standardization through collaboration rather than mandate.

• Document decisions about platform architecture, ensuring they are traceable and meet enterprise security standards.

• Lead the strategy to reduce technical debt from outdated and unnecessary technologies, identify issues, prioritize them, and create solutions to address them.
• Develop and maintain platform maturity models, assessment frameworks, and tracking mechanisms.
• Create dashboards and metrics to provide visibility into platform health, adoption, and risk.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to embed technical debt considerations into planning and delivery cycles.

• Lead practices for managing the platform’s lifecycle, including forecasting technology needs, assessing supportability, and planning for end‑of‑life.
• Ensure architecture repositories and inventories reflect current and future‑state platform roadmaps.
• Support planning based on capabilities, providing views focused on the platform, options, and models for future states.

• Facilitate and lead platform architecture design sessions, reviews, and stakeholder working forums.
• Partner with engineering, security, infrastructure, and operations teams throughout design, build, and run phases.
• Support the transition from architectural guidance to execution through hands‑on collaboration and enablement.
• Act as an escalation point for complex platform design challenges and cross‑platform integration issues.

• Serve as an escalation point for complex platform and shared service architecture issues.
• Assist delivery and operations teams in resolving architecture‑related risks, constraints, and dependencies.
• Operate successfully in a dynamic enterprise environment, balancing short‑term delivery needs with long‑term platform strategy.

Required Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise, platform, solution, or domain architecture roles.
• Proven experience defining and governing enterprise platform standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Solid background in cloud architecture, with deep hands‑on and design experience in Microsoft Azure preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading or evolving architecture governance and review processes.
• Experience developing…