Enterprise Architect Lead
Job in
Oak Brook, DuPage County, Illinois, 60523, USA
Listed on 2026-06-01
Listing for:
Chamberlain Group
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-06-01
Job specializations:
-
IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing, IT Project Manager, IT Consultant
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Summary
The Sr. Enterprise Architect serves as a trusted architecture leader responsible for owning and executing Enterprise Architecture requests and providing architectural direction across initiatives, programs, and portfolios. This role partners closely with business and IT leaders to translate enterprise strategy into scalable, secure, and cost effective technology solutions. Reporting to the Director of Enterprise Architecture & Application Development, this position manages day to day Enterprise Architecture demand, solution direction, and architectural governance while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, roadmaps, and long term strategy.
The ideal candidate brings strong technical depth, business acumen, and the ability to influence to drive consistent architectural outcomes, reduce technical debt, and improve alignment between business strategy and technology execution.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary Enterprise Architecture lead for Enterprise Architecture Requests (EAR), triaging, prioritizing, and delivering architectural guidance across initiatives.
- Lead architecture assessments, solution designs, and target-state definitions for major programs and projects.
- Translate enterprise and business strategy into reference architectures, architectural patterns, capability maps, and technology roadmaps.
- Provide end-to-end architectural guidance across applications, integrations, data, cloud/infrastructure, and security domains.
- Partner with business leaders, product owners, and IT teams to translate business objectives into scalable, secure, and sustainable technology solutions.
- Ensure solution designs align with enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and guardrails.
- Lead or participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARB), design forums, and governance processes; document architectural decisions, trade-offs, and decision records.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate architectural risks, technical debt, and non-standard implementations.
- Evaluate vendor products and third-party solutions; provide architecture recommendations and comparative trade-off analysis.
- Drive technology rationalization initiatives to reduce redundancy, improve reuse, and optimize cost and complexity.
- Collaborate closely with security, infrastructure, data, and platform teams to ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including performance, availability, scalability, compliance, and security.
- Guide delivery teams during implementation to ensure architectural intent is maintained through execution.
- Balance speed-to-market with architectural integrity and long-term sustainability.
- Influence stakeholders across business and IT domains without direct authority to achieve architectural alignment.
- Develop, maintain, and communicate architecture artifacts such as diagrams, roadmaps, patterns, and governance documentation.
- Mentor solution architects, domain architects, and technical leads on enterprise architecture standards, practices, and design principles.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of Enterprise
- Comply with health and safety guidelines and rules; managers should also ensure compliance across their teams.
- Protect Chamberlain Group's reputation by keeping information confidential.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reading professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
- Contribute to the team effort by accomplishing related results and participating on projects as needed.
Education/
Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Technical…
To View & Apply for jobs on this site that accept applications from your location or country, tap the button below to make a Search.
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).
Search for further Jobs Here:
×