Principal Enterprise Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architecture Leadership Support the Head of Enterprise Architecture in developing and evolving enterprise architecture strategy, principles, standards, and target-state roadmaps.
• Define and maintain architecture perspectives across business, application, data, integration, cloud, platform, security, and AI-related capabilities as applicable.
• Own enterprise standards, target state, governance, exceptions, material technology decision frameworks
• Translate enterprise strategy and target-state direction into practical guidance for domain architecture and engineering teams.
• Promote alignment across business units, shared services, and technology domains.
• Strategic Architecture and Transformation Provide architecture leadership for major strategic initiatives, modernization programs, and enterprise-impacting technology decisions.
• Assess architecture options and recommend solutions that balance business value, cost, risk, resilience, time to market, and long-term maintainability.
• Support enterprise transformation through simplification, rationalization, modernization, and platform reuse.
• Identify opportunities to reduce duplication, retire legacy complexity, and improve interoperability across the enterprise.
• Governance and Decision Support Participate in and support enterprise architecture governance, standards councils, review boards, and strategic decision forums.
• Evaluate material technology decisions using approved enterprise frameworks, including buy, build, reuse, partner, and retire options.
• Review architecture proposals for compliance with enterprise standards, target-state architecture, and risk requirements.
• Support management of architecture exceptions, including rationale, risk analysis, remediation paths, and time-bound approvals.
• Available for production incidents with major impact to business operations.
• Cross-Functional Partnership Partner with federated domain architects, platform leaders, engineering teams, data and AI teams, security, infrastructure, and business technology leaders to drive alignment.
• Facilitate resolution of cross-domain design issues, architecture conflicts, and overlapping capability decisions.
• Act as a trusted advisor to leaders across technology and business-aligned delivery organizations.
• Ensure architecture direction is understood and applied consistently across federated teams.
• Works with Business Unit heads and principal solution architects to translate enterprise direction into federated execution.
• Risk, Security, and Resilience Incorporate cybersecurity, privacy, resilience, recoverability, and regulatory considerations into architecture guidance and recommendations.
• Partner with risk, security, and compliance stakeholders to ensure technology decisions align with enterprise control requirements.
• Assess the operational and architectural implications of technology choices in regulated and high-availability environments.
• Talent and Capability Development Mentor and coach architects and senior technology professionals.
• Contribute to architecture capability development, communities of practice, and architecture operating model maturity.
• Support common role expectations, competency models, and quality standards across the architecture function.
• Promote enterprise-first thinking, sound decision-making, and strong architecture discipline.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, domain architecture, or senior technology strategy roles.
• Deep cross-domain expertise spanning applications, integration, data, AI, cloud, security, and platform strategy.
• Experience supporting or leading architecture for large-scale transformation initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience with architecture governance, standards development, target-state planning, and strategic technology decision-making.
• Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.

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