Lead Enterprise Architect

The Lead Enterprise Architect will act as a senior technology generalist. The ideal candidate should possess the following key attributes:

Ability to architect technical solutions that drive and support strategic business processes, ensuring the solutions are comprehensive, robust, scalable, and aligned around core business needs
Continuously demonstrate technology thought leadership and build collaborative relationships within business and IT teams based on integrity and clarity of purpose.
Advocates for the reduction of technical debt associated with simplified solutions that deliver specific business outcomes
Evaluates and recommends technologies that solve business challenges, enhance customer and Team Member experience, and drive competitive advantage
Actively collaborates and communicates across the BFS organization; acts as a facilitator, technology evangelist, innovator and change agent

This role requires interaction at multiple levels, including working with frontline teams, corporate representatives, IT owners and BFS leadership. Ideal candidate will be focused across all layers of technology including solution, application, and security architectures. This person is also responsible for technical mentoring other IT peers.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Contribute to and execute on BFS IT strategy to ensure alignment with the organization's goals and objectives.
Maintain a holistic view of the organization's strategy, processes, information, and technology assets.
Leads architectural efforts for medium to large projects (e.g., a project module or existing technology map review) or complex components of projects.
Designs and implements short and long-term strategic goals for managing and maintaining systems and software.
Creates business, capability and technology roadmaps.
Reviews compatibility and technical specifications of the current architecture to recommend appropriate, timely and necessary improvements or enhancements.
Ensures the translation of integrated user requirements into effective solution architecture and design across products or systems.
Defines and develops new system specifications, processes and technologies.
Creates systems interfaces and business application prototypes.
Analyzes and resolves system design issues by considering infrastructure and technical performance.
Breaks down complex topics into manageable small steps that lead to incremental progress.
Understands and communicates downstream impacts of solution design changes and technical analytical findings to team and external stakeholders in concise business language. Partner with business and technology subject experts to translate business requirements into technological solutions.
Documents varying levels of architecture, strategy, guidelines, and principles
Coordinates, reviews and approves projects to ensure that they are compliant with architectural standards, policies, and guidelines.
Monitors and analyzes industry, technology, and market trends to determine their potential impact or application for the organization.
Conducts research and Proofs of Concept on emerging technologies in support of anticipated development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and infrastructure flexibility.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
None

MINIMUM REQUIREMENT
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; master's degree preferred
12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 8 years of hands-on experience working as a Technology/Application/Solution Architect implementing medium to large scale initiatives
At least 4 years of experience working in Enterprise Transformation initiatives like Legacy application modernization, Data & Information Transformation, App portfolio rationalization, AI / GenAI at scale (moving from pilots to production use across functions) and others that drove the business value for an Org.
At least 2 years of experience translating the requirements into actionable architectural designs and roadmaps that enable delivery and balance security, scalability, cost, and speed
Proven experience in architectural:
Design and analyze the current and future state architectural designs, provide the best practices, recommendations and related value propositions
Deep expertise in modern application, data, and integration architectures
Stakeholder

Collaboration:

Work with stakeholders to ensure the architecture meets business needs and IT requirements
Collaborate with other architects across the organization to ensure architectural consistency and alignment is met
Participate in Technical risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies.
Preferred experience implementing SAP ERP systems, including interfacing with other SaaS and PaaS…