Chief Architect & Enterprise Strategy Leader

The Vice President of Architecture is the enterprise executive accountable for technology architecture strategy, governance, and organizational leadership across Clean Harbors. The role establishes the target-state architecture and operating model that connect business priorities to secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective technology capabilities. As a senior advisor to executive leadership, the Vice President shapes enterprise platforms, applications, data, integration, cloud, infrastructure, and security architecture while ensuring that investments deliver measurable business value and sustainable outcomes.

This leader builds and develops a high-performing architecture organization, drives consistent decision-making across portfolios, and balances near-term delivery commitments with long-term enterprise health. The position has authority to set architecture standards, chair governance forums, resolve cross-platform design issues, and escalate material technology risks.

Why work for Clean Harbors?

• Health and Safety is our #1 priority and we live it 3-6-5!
• Competitive wages
• Comprehensive health benefits coverage after 30 days of full-time employment
• Group 401K with company matching component
• Opportunities for growth and development for all the stages of your career
• Generous paid time off, company paid training and tuition reimbursement
• Positive and safe work environments

• Define, communicate, and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, reference architectures, standards, and multi-year roadmaps in alignment with company strategy.
• Lead enterprise architecture governance and decision forums; establish clear decision rights, exception processes, documentation standards, and accountability.
• Assess emerging and proven technology trends, determining where adoption can improve business performance, risk posture, agility, or operating efficiency.
• Ensure architecture decisions meet enterprise requirements for security, privacy, resilience, interoperability, performance, scalability, and regulatory compliance.
• Identify systemic architecture risks and provide executives with clear options, tradeoffs, recommendations, and mitigation plans.

• Partner with executive leaders, business stakeholders, Platform Owners, Product Owners, and Engineering leadership to translate business strategy into technology capabilities and investment priorities.
• Influence enterprise planning, portfolio sequencing, acquisition integration, and major transformation programs through fact-based architecture guidance.
• Balance speed, cost, risk, and long-term sustainability when advising on build, buy, reuse, retire, and modernization decisions.
• Present complex technology strategies and decisions in clear business terms to executive audiences and governance bodies.

• Provide executive oversight for architecture across complex, cross-platform programs and ensure solution designs align with enterprise target states and roadmaps.
• Drive consistency across application, integration, data, deployment, cloud, infrastructure, and security architectures while allowing appropriate business-domain flexibility.
• Establish architecture engagement models that enable delivery teams to make timely, high-quality decisions and realize architectural intent through implementation.
• Resolve cross-portfolio dependencies and design conflicts, reducing duplication, fragmentation, and avoidable complexity.

• Own the enterprise view of technical debt, lifecycle risk, platform health, and modernization needs; prioritize remediation based on business value and risk.
• Champion reusable platforms, automation, observability, resilience engineering, and engineering practices that improve stability, maintainability, and delivery performance.
• Sponsor pilots and controlled experimentation, with defined success measures and responsible pathways to scale or exit.
• Establish architecture outcomes and metrics, including standards adoption, reuse, risk reduction, modernization progress, reliability, cost optimization, and time to delivery.

• Lead, coach, and develop Architecture Directors, Technical Architects, Solution Architects, and related architecture leaders; create succession plans and strengthen enterprise architecture capability.
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