Senior Managing Director, Architecture; M4

Senior Managing Director, Architecture

For over 100 years, Save the Children has been fighting for the rights of children. The right to a healthy start in life. To have access to education. To be in a safe environment, protected from harm. We work in some of the world's hardest-to-reach places – over 100 countries, including the U.S. No matter what your role is, when you join Save the Children, you're creating positive, irreversible change for children, and the future we all share.

The Role

As the Senior Managing Director, Architecture, you'll lead enterprise architecture strategy, governance, and transformation enablement across the organization, ensuring technology decisions are secure, scalable, interoperable, and aligned to business value. You'll oversee architecture standards, roadmaps, maturity benchmarks, and decision-making forums that guide modernization and strengthen the organization's technology foundation. You will manage and coordinate the Enterprise Architecture team and provides architectural leadership, governance and direction to domain architects across data, cybersecurity, infrastructure, applications, cloud, and solution architecture through a dotted-line relationship.

You will partner with Save the Children International (SCI) to align the Save the Children US (SCUS) architecture decisions and roadmaps globally to reduce technical debt, improve capability maturity, and advance digital transformation at scale.

Location

Hybrid – Washington DC, Fairfield, CT or Lexington, KY office locations Remote – United States

What You'll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
* not inclusive of all role responsibilities. May be subject to change

Strategic Planning & Capability Maturity Model Oversight (20%)

• Provide architecture investment recommendations, capability forecasts, and technology roadmap inputs to support BTS financial and workforce planning.
• Lead architecture capability maturity assessments and improvement roadmaps.
• Partner closely with BTS Senior Management Team (SMT), SCUS Finance, and other SCUS divisions, and Save the Children International (SCI) to provide architecture guidance to support technology investment decisions, platform rationalisation / transformation, and resource prioritisation.

Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Governance (40%)

• Guide and support the organization's overall enterprise architecture as a technology expert across all architecture domains, ensuring alignment across business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.
• Establish, maintain, and enforce enterprise architecture standards, principles, reference architectures, patterns, and documentation practices from solution design through implementation and operational handoff.
• Provide strategic consultation and architectural leadership for the agency's digital transformation goals, ensuring technology solutions are scalable, secure, interoperable, cost-effective, and aligned to business value.
• Chair or actively support architecture governance forums, design review boards, and technology decision-making processes to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, security requirements, business priorities, and long-term technology strategy.
• Develop and maintain current-state and future-state architecture views, roadmaps, capability maps, and transition plans that support enterprise modernization and informed executive decision-making.
• Ensure architecture decisions are documented, communicated, and traceable, with clear rationale, risks, dependencies, and alignment to enterprise strategy, standards, and governance expectations.

Enterprise Architecture Leadership & Transformation Enablement (40%)

• Lead and manage the Enterprise Architecture team, providing architectural leadership, governance and direction to domain architects across data, cybersecurity, infrastructure, applications, and solution architecture through effective dotted-line and matrix management practices.
• Train, develop, coach, lead, and supervise staff, clearly communicating organization, division and department priorities, and how their work contributes to our mission and supports Save the Children values.
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