Team Lead, Enterprise Architecture

Position Location

Farmington Hills, MI. This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement. Currently 5 days of on‑site work per month are required.

The Lead Enterprise Architect is responsible for leading the development, adoption, and continuous improvement of enterprise architectural frameworks, standards, governance, and architectural artifacts across the organization. This role provides leadership to a team of architects and coordinates cross‑functional support of business and technology strategy with design and architectural views. It also translates MDT strategic direction into practical architectural roadmaps, implementation guidance, and measurable processes.

The Lead Enterprise Architect will work closely with leadership, engineering teams, operations teams, security, and business stakeholders to ensure architecture decisions are actionable, aligned, and sustainable.

• Leads the enterprise architecture function and provides day‑to‑day leadership, direction and mentoring to a team of architects.
• Establishes, maintains, and evolves the company’s enterprise architecture framework, standards, governance processes, and architectural repository.
• Aligns IT strategy, architectural direction, and technical planning with the company’s business goals and operating model.
• Provides long‑term strategic responsibility for architecture direction across infrastructure, applications, cloud, platform, network, security, data, and emerging technologies.
• Creates practical roadmaps and transition architectures that support implementation of target state capabilities.
• Promotes shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flow.
• Ensures that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from business and IT strategies.
• Manages risks associated with information and IT assets through appropriate standards, guidelines, and security policies.
• Provides direct leadership in the development of policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation, and use of Information Technology within the enterprise.
• Establishes standardized methods for review, documentation, and design across technology domains.
• Reviews new products, services, platforms, and technical initiatives with emphasis on documenting their impact in current architecture, operations, security, supportability, and total cost of ownership.
• Leads architectural assessments and design reviews for enterprise technology solutions.
• Conducts proof of concept, lab review, and validation activities to confirm architecture designs.
• Creates and maintains architecture artifacts to support planning, decision‑making, implementation, transition, and operational support.
• Develops current‑state, future‑state, and transitional architecture views that support business and technical planning.
• Defines and enforces architectural standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns to improve consistency and reduce delivery risk.
• Follows and promotes best practices in modeling standards, documentation, and architecture principles across the team.
• Leads the development of team processes including intake, review, prioritization, exception handling, and post‑implementation evaluation.
• Leads a team of architects through mentoring, work prioritization, and performance guidance.
• Builds strong partnerships with engineering, operations, security, application, and business teams.
• Ensures team services are well coordinated with other corporate and technology functions.
• Keeps senior management informed of architectural direction, standards adoption, progress toward established objectives and significant risks/issues.
• Facilitates architectural review boards, technical working group sessions, cross‑functional design discussions, and governance committees.
• Translates complex technical concepts into clear business and operational goals for stakeholders with varying degrees of technical knowledge.
• Assists team and project teams with architectural guidance, standards interpretation, and implementation planning.
• Promotes organizational maturity in architectural practices, governance, and…