Director, Global Strategy and Enterprise Architecture

What Makes a Honda, Is Who Makes a Honda

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential.

To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

The Global Enterprise Architecture Department Manager is responsible for owning and advancing enterprise architecture strategy and translating business vision into actionable technology direction in alignment with Honda’s global priorities.

This role partners closely with business and IT leaders to connect strategy to execution, ensuring architecture frameworks, roadmaps, and decisions enable long-term business value, competitiveness, and innovation.

The manager drives strategic alignment across regions, sets and governs technology direction and ensures enterprise architecture practices support measurable outcomes.

The position emphasizes strategic thinking, cross-functional influence, and architecture leadership, while ensuring consistent execution, governance, and continuous evolution of enterprise capabilities.

• Enterprise Architecture: Knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, and governance models; ability to define, implement, and govern enterprise-wide architecture direction that ensures alignment of technology capabilities with business strategy across global operations.
• Strategy Development & Alignment: Knowledge of strategic planning processes and business strategy formulation; ability to define and drive enterprise architecture strategy that aligns technology direction with Honda’s long-term business objectives, market dynamics, and competitive positioning.
• Business Architecture & Strategic Translation: Knowledge of business architecture concepts including capabilities, value streams, and operating models; ability to translate business strategy into actionable architecture models and technology solutions that deliver measurable value.
• Business Acumen & Value Realization: Knowledge of financial, market, and operational drivers of business performance; ability to ensure enterprise architecture initiatives deliver measurable business value and support strategic outcomes.
• Architecture & Solution Oversight: Knowledge of solution architecture and system design principles; ability to guide and govern architecture decisions for complex, multi-domain initiatives to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and strategic direction.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence: Knowledge of stakeholder engagement and organizational dynamics; ability to lead enterprise-wide alignment and influence decisions across business and IT functions to achieve strategic outcomes.
• Planning & Continuous Improvement: Knowledge of strategic and operational planning processes; ability to integrate enterprise architecture into planning cycles and continuously evolve capabilities to meet changing business needs.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Preferred:
  Master’s degree (e.g., MBA, Information Systems, or related discipline) to support business and strategy alignment

• 15 years of progressive experience in IT, enterprise architecture, or related disciplines
• 10+ years in leadership roles, including second-level leadership or leading…