Head of Portfolio Architecture

The Head of Architecture is a senior technology and business-facing leader responsible for defining the architectural vision, strategic technology roadmap, and portfolio architecture direction for a designated business unit. This role ensures technology investments, transformation initiatives, and solution delivery activities support both business objectives and enterprise-wide architectural standards.

Working closely with Business Unit executives and enterprise technology leaders, the Head of Architecture establishes a cohesive architectural strategy spanning business capabilities, applications, integrations, data platforms, cloud technologies, artificial intelligence, and digital experiences. The role serves as the primary architecture authority for the portfolio, balancing immediate business priorities with long-term technology sustainability.

Operating within a distributed enterprise architecture environment, this leader partners with central architecture teams, platform organizations, and delivery stakeholders to align portfolio decisions with broader enterprise goals while advocating for business unit priorities. The position carries significant influence across investment planning, modernization initiatives, governance activities, and enterprise technology strategy.

• Develop and maintain the strategic architecture vision and future-state roadmap for the business unit.
• Provide leadership across multiple products, platforms, programs, and business capabilities to ensure integrated end-to-end solution design.
• Establish architecture priorities that support organizational growth, modernization, operational efficiency, and innovation.
• Ensure portfolio roadmaps align with enterprise architecture principles and business strategy.
• Guide architectural decisions that support scalable, secure, and sustainable technology ecosystems.
• Lead and develop a team of architects supporting the business unit's delivery portfolio.
• Serve as the senior architecture advisor to business and technology leadership within the portfolio.
• Partner with executive stakeholders to shape technology strategy, transformation initiatives, and investment priorities.
• Translate business objectives into capability-based architecture plans and technology roadmaps.
• Ensure alignment between business needs, customer experiences, operational processes, and technology investments.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture leaders to balance business unit requirements with broader organizational priorities.

• Advance architecture strategies focused on cloud adoption, platform modernization, data transformation, integration capabilities, and AI enablement.
• Promote technology approaches that improve scalability, agility, security, and operational resilience.
• Drive architectural simplification through platform consolidation, capability reuse, and reduction of technical complexity.
• Support adoption of modern engineering practices, API-driven architectures, data-centric solutions, and emerging technologies.
• Encourage technology patterns that improve delivery speed, engineering productivity, and long-term maintainability.
• Influence technology investment decisions and portfolio planning activities across the business unit.
• Evaluate strategic initiatives to ensure alignment with long-term architecture objectives.
• Balance short‑term delivery commitments with future‑state architectural goals.
• Identify opportunities to maximize technology reuse, reduce duplication, and accelerate business value realization.
• Support prioritization of modernization programs, digital initiatives, data strategies, and platform enhancements.
• Contribute to enterprise‑wide investment discussions involving shared capabilities and cross‑functional programs.

• Maintain accountability for architecture across business processes, applications, data assets, integrations, customer experiences, and technology platforms.
• Oversee architecture decisions that impact business operations, customer engagement, and enterprise capabilities.
• Ensure solutions support performance, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence…