Associate Enterprise Architect - Corporate IT

Description

Burns & McDonnell is seeking an enterprise architect to own and drive our technology strategy, standards, and roadmap for our multi-billion global architecture, engineering, and construction firm. This role serves as the critical bridge between business strategy and IT execution within our hundred plus million-dollar technology portfolio. The enterprise architect will establish and govern technology strategy and standards, collaborate with, and guide all technology personnel who perform an architect function (including six full-time technology architects), and support development of the long-term roadmap for transformational business initiatives such as our Blue Horizon transformation program.

Burns & McDonnell is seeking an enterprise architect to own and drive our technology strategy, standards, and roadmap for our multi-billion global architecture, engineering, and construction firm. This role serves as the critical bridge between business strategy and IT execution within our hundred plus million-dollar technology portfolio. The enterprise architect will establish and govern technology strategy and standards, collaborate with, and guide all technology personnel who perform an architect function (including six full-time technology architects), and support development of the long-term roadmap for transformational business initiatives such as our Blue Horizon transformation program.

• Strategic Alignment:
  Translate Business Enablement and corporate strategies, goals, and objectives into actionable enterprise technology roadmap.

• Technology Standards:
  Working with all Global Practice, Regional and Corporate Services technology and innovation leaders, establish, publish and oversee usage of architecture principles and standards across applications, data, security, and infrastructure.

• Initiative Support:
  Provide overarching architectural direction for key projects prioritized through the Enterprise Transformation Office (EXO) and corporate portfolio management functions (Evolve and Launch), making certain solutions scale and integrate seamlessly.

• Architectural Leadership:
  Mentor and guide all technology professionals performing an architect function.

• Technology Rationalization:
  Identify opportunities to consolidate platforms, reduce technical debt and prevent redundant software acquisitions across the company.

• Solution Architecture:
  Personally produce architecture artifacts for high-priority initiatives, including diagrams, integration specifications, and technical decision records, and maintain active involvement with engineering teams through implementation, not only at the point of review or approval.

• Engineering Enablement:
  Coach software engineers and developers on architecture patterns, integration design, and technical decision-making, expanding architectural capability beyond professionals in formal architecture roles.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, computer science, information technology or related field and 14 years of experience providing enterprise architecture strategies, enterprise integration solutions and services leveraging various applications and technical platforms required.

• Or, Associates degree and 16 years of experience providing enterprise architecture strategies, enterprise integration solutions and services leveraging various applications and technical platforms.

• High School Diploma/GED and 18 years of experience providing enterprise architecture strategies, enterprise integration solutions and services leveraging various applications and technical platforms required.

• Three years in a senior architecture or chief architecture role preferred.

• Excellent enterprise architecture and integration skills, including data architecture, cloud architecture, middleware and other architectural methods and practices.

• Proven background managing architecture for a large, complex organization (AEC industry) preferred.

• Experience in large-scale enterprise transformation projects using industry enterprise architecture strategy solutions and middleware technologies.

• Proven ability to influence and lead enterprise integration…