Lead Engineer, Enterprise Architecture

As an employee-owned company, DMA prioritizes employees. Low turnover rates and tenured teams are living proof: 2026 Great Places to Work Certified Employee stock ownership program eligibility begins on day one of employment (ESOP contribution is targeted at 6% of your annual compensation) Company paid parental leave Generous time off package Multiple benefit plans, eligibility begins on day one of employment Culturally focused on work/life balance, and the overall wellness of our employees This is a hybrid position with an expectation to be in our Fort Wayne, IN or Indianapolis, IN office a minimum of two days per week.

This position does not qualify for relocation assistance. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. This position does not qualify for employment-based sponsorship.

The Lead Engineer, Enterprise Architecture is a senior, hands-on architecture leader responsible for establishing DMA’s future-state technology architecture and ensuring that significant business and technology initiatives are intentionally aligned with the company’s strategy, enterprise capabilities, and long-term technology direction. The role leads a small architecture team and operates as a player-coach: setting enterprise direction, shaping complex solutions before delivery begins, and personally contributing to high-impact solution design.

This role partners with business leaders, IT leadership, security, data, systems, engineering, delivery teams, and vendors to translate business needs into practical solution options. It establishes architecture standards and governance, guides build-versus-buy decisions, identifies cross-system dependencies and risks, and helps DMA move from an organically grown environment toward a coherent target state. The position also provides architecture leadership for emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.

Innovation is pursued selectively to advance business outcomes and the approved enterprise architecture, rather than as a separate objective.

• Define and maintain DMA’s current-state, future-state, and transition architecture, including enterprise standards, principles, reference architectures, and reusable solution patterns.
• Partner closely with business leaders and stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, business capabilities, operational challenges, and emerging needs, translating them into practical technology strategies and solution approaches.
• Engage early in business initiatives to help shape requirements, evaluate alternatives, identify dependencies, and ensure proposed solutions address the underlying business need before significant investment or development begins.
• Ensure major technology initiatives align with DMA’s business strategy, enterprise capabilities, security requirements, data strategy, platform direction, and long-term technology roadmap.
• Lead solution architecture for significant business and technology requests, developing solution options, conceptual architectures, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and implementation recommendations.
• Facilitate architecture and solution-design discussions across business stakeholders, engineering, data, security, systems, delivery teams, and external vendors to drive well-informed decisions.
• Establish and lead architecture governance, including solution reviews, architecture standards, design decisions, exceptions, dependencies, and technical risk management.
• Lead build-versus-buy evaluations and assess third-party solutions for business fit, enterprise alignment, integration, security, data considerations, scalability, supportability, and long-term maintainability.
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