Director, Enterprise Architecture

Company Description

Job Description

Who will you be working with?

Our best-in-class Strategy & Operational Effectiveness team has overarching responsibility for driving consistent strategy, project management, financial management, asset management, project execution, M&A integration, and enterprise architecture across global Wabtec IT. As the Director of Enterprise Architecture and Technology Portfolio Management (TPM) in IT, you will collaborate daily with domain architects, project managers, IT leaders, and other key stakeholders across the organization.

This dynamic role spans functions and regions, enabling you to influence our enterprise architecture practice worldwide. Centrally positioned within IT, you will have a unique opportunity to impact major initiatives and ensure that our technology architecture closely aligns with both IT strategy and Wabtec's broader business objectives.

How will you make a difference?

As the Director of Enterprise Architecture, you will lead the strategic oversight and governance of Wabtec's global technology landscape. This role is pivotal in aligning enterprise architecture with business strategy, optimizing the application and technology portfolio, and driving modernization across domains. You will serve as a player-coach, collaborating with architects, IT leaders, and business stakeholders to ensure technology investments deliver measurable value and resilience.

You will report directly to the VP, IT Strategy & Operational Effectiveness (Office of the CIO), regularly updating executive leadership on architecture progress, technology portfolio management governance, key decisions, and strategy recommendations to ensure alignment at the highest level.

What do we want to know about you?

You must have:

* Bachelor's degree in computer science or related program

* Eight (8) years minimum experience in IT, with strong enterprise architecture exposure

* Strong understanding of business processes and capabilities

* Ability to work at the enterprise level, influencing IT and business leaders to align technology strategy, architecture standards, and investment decisions with business outcomes

* Proven ability to lead global technology rationalization strategies and governance

* Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, BODEA, Zachman, or similar), with practical experience translating framework concepts into actionable architecture governance and roadmaps

* Possess knowledge of business applications, data analytics, and modern IT infrastructure, including cloud solutions

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills

* Ability to analyze complex business problems and design effective technology solutions that drive business value

* Comfort working in a hierarchical environment and self-driven on deliverables

* Strong communication, analytical, and stakeholder engagement skills

We would love it if you had:

* Experience with Gartner's TIME (Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate) model or other APM/TPM frameworks

* Proficiency in tools like Service Now, Apptio, Power BI, and CMDB systems

What will your typical day look like?

* Architecture Leadership

* Responsible for setting the vision and leading enterprise architecture strategy across domains:
Business, Application, Technology, Data, and Security.

* Bring structure and clarity across a federated model, through collaboration and influence, without slowing teams down

* Leverage existing architects across multiple IT departments to build and influence the ongoing and evolving technical environment.

* Develop nuanced architecture views and models that reflect the complexity of Wabtec's global ecosystem.

* Compare and contrast architecture patterns based on business value, operational resilience, and cost.

* Compares and contrasts different enterprise level architecture configurations and patterns based on business value, operational resilience and cost considerations

* Supports the creation and communication of strategic roadmaps that sequence technology initiatives based on business priorities and technical dependencies, aligning to the overall enterprise strategy

* Governance and Standards…