Enterprise Architect

If you’ve led enterprise integrations across multiple business systems and have experience leading data modernization and enterprise architecture initiatives, this role is worth exploring.

Ideal backgrounds include experience leading:

• Enterprise application ecosystems and API strategies

If this is your background, then let's talk.

Location
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Remote/Hybrid with team presence in the North Chicago suburbs

Compensation
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Up to $175K base + 10% bonus

Excellent benefits, strong work/life balance, and long-term strategic visibility across enterprise modernization initiatives

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to define and guide enterprise application and data architecture strategy across a complex enterprise technology environment. This individual will provide leadership across enterprise integrations, security architecture, data modernization initiatives, and practices while ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise standards.

This is a newly created, highly visible role focused on enterprise architecture, integrations, and long-term modernization initiatives. The position will serve as a technical leader and advisor across multiple enterprise systems and business functions, helping guide architectural direction, vendor evaluation, integration strategy, and future-state platform design.

The ideal candidate will have experience architecting enterprise integrations across multiple business systems, leading data modernization initiatives, evaluating architecture technologies, and guiding technical teams through complex enterprise solution decisions. Experience operating in environments where Salesforce serves as a core enterprise platform is strongly preferred.

• Define and maintain enterprise application and data architecture standards, principles, and reference architectures
• Design scalable, maintainable, and resilient enterprise application solutions aligned with business capabilities and strategic roadmaps
• Provide architectural leadership across enterprise-scale application ecosystems involving multiple integrated business platforms
• Evaluate existing systems and recommend modernization, rationalization, and cloud adoption strategies
• Review and approve enterprise solution designs to ensure alignment with architectural, operational, and security standards
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to business leaders, engineering teams, and stakeholders across the organization
• Lead enterprise integration architecture initiatives across internal applications, SaaS platforms, data platforms, and external systems
• Define enterprise integration patterns, including API-led, event-driven, and message-based architectures
• An architect with secure and scalable integrations across multiple enterprise business systems and platforms
• Establish standards for API design, monitoring, versioning, documentation, and lifecycle management
• Evaluate integration technologies and recommend enterprise architecture solutions based on scalability, security, maintainability, and business requirements
• Guide technical teams through architecture decision-making and enterprise integration strategy

• Embed security-by-design principles across application, integration, and data architectures
• Define secure identity and access management patterns, including OAuth2, OpenID Connect, cloud-native IAM, encryption, and secure API standards
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to ensure enterprise compliance and secure architecture practices
• Identify and mitigate enterprise architectural risks across applications, integrations, and enterprise data environments
• Lead and guide enterprise data modernization initiatives involving data warehouses, enterprise reporting platforms, and modern data architecture strategies
• Architect and govern enterprise data architecture, including transactional systems, analytical platforms, and enterprise data pipelines
• Define standards for data modeling, data integration, metadata management, governance, and data quality
• Partner with data engineering and analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and enterprise business intelligence initiatives
• Help evaluate and guide…