Portfolio Architect - Distribution Field Services and Mobility

## Portfolio Architect - Distribution Field Services and Mobility Apply:
Gahanna, OH:
Full time:
Posted Today:
End Date:
October 2, 2026 (9 days left to apply):
R18456
** Job Posting End Date
** 10-02-2026

Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.
** Job Summary
** The Portfolio Architect serves as the senior architecture leader for the Distribution Field Services and Mobility portfolio. The role connects business strategy, operational capabilities, technology investments, and delivery by maintaining a coherent current-state, target-state, and transition architecture across the portfolio.
The Portfolio Architect partners with business and technology leadership to shape portfolio strategy, inform investment decisions, improve application and technology health, reduce duplication and technical debt, and ensure initiatives advance the portfolio toward an agreed future state. The role applies Enterprise Architecture standards and guardrails while providing practical architectural direction to solution architects, engineering teams, product teams, and major programs.
The Portfolio Architect is accountable for architecture coherence and direction across the portfolio. Delivery execution remains the responsibility of the appropriate project, product, engineering, and operational teams.
** Job Description
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* What You’ll Do:

**** Essential Job Functions & Tasks:
*** Develop and maintain current-state, target-state, and transition architectures for the portfolio, covering business capabilities, applications, data, integrations, platforms, infrastructure, security, resilience, and operational dependencies.
* Create and maintain a multi-year portfolio architecture roadmap that identifies modernization, consolidation, migration, rationalization, technical-debt reduction, and capability-enablement priorities.
* Partner with business and technology leaders to connect business outcomes and operational capabilities to technology strategy, ensuring architecture work is driven by measurable portfolio needs rather than isolated project requirements.
* Lead Application Portfolio Management for the assigned portfolio, using LeanIX and other authoritative sources to evaluate application ownership, business capability alignment, functional fit, technical fit, lifecycle, business criticality, cost, risk, and strategic disposition.
* Identify duplication, fragmentation, obsolescence, unsupported technology, integration complexity, resilience gaps, and security risks across the portfolio and develop prioritized remediation recommendations.
* Provide architectural input into six-quarter planning, demand intake, capital planning, and investment prioritization, clearly communicating options, dependencies, costs, risks, tradeoffs, and expected business outcomes.
* Ensure significant initiatives align with portfolio roadmaps, enterprise standards, reference architectures, approved platforms, security requirements, and regulatory obligations.
* Participate in architecture governance, including architecture reviews, standards discussions, technology evaluations, exception decisions, and escalation of unresolved risks to Enterprise Architecture or the Architecture Review Board.
* Guide solution architects and delivery teams in translating portfolio direction into implementable solution architectures while ensuring that solution-level decisions remain aligned with the target state.
* Coordinate cross-portfolio and cross-domain architecture decisions, particularly where Distribution Field Services and Mobility depend on asset management, work management, GIS, customer systems, data platforms, integration platforms, cybersecurity, cloud, or operational technology.
* Maintain architecture information and decision traceability in LeanIX and other approved repositories, including capability mappings, application relationships, technology dependencies, roadmaps, lifecycle positions, architecture decisions, and exceptions.
* Establish clear architecture outcomes and measures, such as reduction in application duplication, retirement of obsolete technology, remediation of critical risks, adoption of approved patterns, improved portfolio-data quality, and progress toward target-state capabilities.
* Mentor and provide architectural direction to solution architects, domain architects, engineers, and technical leaders supporting the portfolio.
* Communicate architecture decisions and portfolio direction in business, operational, financial, risk, and…