Enterprise Platform Architect

Title: Enterprise Platform Architect

Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL

Duration: Permanent

Compensation: $165,000- $180,000

Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

The Enterprise Platform Architect is a senior technical and strategic leader who provides advice and influences the development of enterprise platform capabilities. They ensure that solutions are secure, scalable, and reusable across the organization. The role works closely with platform teams, Business Enablement, and architecture governance bodies to shape platform standards and reference architecture, providing guidance and recommendations without direct ownership or enforcement.

The Architect collaborates with Business Enablement and Platform teams—including Sec Tech Ops  and OCTO/Dev Sec Ops —to ensure platform services comply with enterprise architecture principles and align with the cloud strategy and long‑term business goals. The role balances near‑term delivery enablement with long‑term platform sustainability and modernization.

• Advise on and influence the development of enterprise platform architectures, creating reusable patterns and reference architectures while setting technical standards.
• Provide guidance on using shared platforms and services, including cloud, integration, identity, Dev Sec Ops , data, and middleware, assisting teams to align with enterprise principles while maintaining delivery autonomy.
• Work closely with Business Enablement, Information Security, and Platform teams to ensure platform designs meet security standards and are resilient, scalable, and operationally effective.
• Translate enterprise architecture principles into actionable guidance such as platform blueprints, decision trees, deployment patterns, and reference examples.
• Promote adoption of reusable platform patterns, golden paths, and reference implementations that 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, guiding design decisions, trade‑offs, and roadmap alignment for Business Enablement and Platforms.
• Explain platform capabilities and limitations, discuss integration methods, and provide architectural direction for complex initiatives involving shared platforms and enterprise services across multiple domains.
• Document decisions about platform architecture to ensure traceability and compliance with enterprise security standards.
• Lead strategies to reduce technical debt from outdated technologies, prioritizing issues and creating solutions to fix them.
• Develop and maintain platform maturity models, assessment frameworks, and tracking mechanisms; create dashboards and metrics for visibility into platform health, adoption, and risk.
• Embed technical debt considerations into planning and delivery cycles by partnering with engineering and operations teams.
• Lead practices for managing the platform’s lifecycle, forecasting technology needs, assessing supportability, and planning for end‑of‑life scenarios.
• Ensure architecture repositories and inventories reflect current and future state platform roadmaps and support planning based on capabilities.
• 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, supporting the transition from 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, assisting delivery and operations teams in resolving architecture‑related risks, constraints, and dependencies.
• Operate 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,…