Enterprise Architect

Salary: $140,000 - $190,000 based on experience and credentials

Location Type: Hybrid, a flexible work model blending in-office and remote working

Position Type: Full Time

The Enterprise Architect translates business strategy into an integrated enterprise technology direction. This role defines and governs the target architecture across business capabilities, applications, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, identity, cybersecurity, and resilience. The Enterprise Architect reduces complexity and technical debt, guides major technology investments, and ensures that project and vendor decisions advance the organization toward a coherent, secure, resilient, and cost-effective target state.

Success requires influence across business and technology leadership, practical governance, and measurable progress in modernization, platform reuse, risk reduction, and system retirement. This is an enterprise decision-making role, not solely a documentation or solution-design position.

• Partner with executive, business, and technology leaders to translate strategic priorities, growth objectives, operating-model changes, regulatory obligations, and member or customer needs into enterprise capabilities and technology roadmaps
• Assess gaps between the current environment and the required future state, including business, operating, data, application, security, integration, and infrastructure impacts
• Provide clear architectural recommendations, tradeoffs, dependencies, sequencing, costs, risks, and decision points for leadership
• Develop and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state architecture across business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, identity, security, and resilience domains
• Maintain business-capability maps, application and technology inventories, integration and data-flow maps, reference architectures, and technology lifecycle standards
• Ensure architecture artifacts remain actionable, understandable, and connected to funded initiatives and business outcomes
• Define architecture principles, approved platforms, reusable patterns, integration methods, data standards, security guardrails, and cloud practices
• Lead or support the Architecture Review Board and establish architecture review requirements for material technology changes and enterprise-impacting initiatives
• Review major initiatives, solution designs, vendor selections, and exceptions for alignment with enterprise strategy and standards
• Document architectural decisions, risks, exceptions, remediation commitments, accountable owners, and expiration dates
• Create and coordinate multi-year modernization roadmaps across business portfolios, delivery teams, technology domains, and major vendors, sequencing investments based on business value, risk, dependencies, funding, and organizational capacity
• Identify redundant, obsolete, unsupported, or overly complex technologies, applications, capabilities, integrations, and data, and establish consolidation, remediation, or retirement plans.
• Promote reuse, standardization, platform consolidation, API enablement, and disciplined decommissioning
• Maintain an enterprise technical-debt register and provide transparent risk and investment recommendations to leadership
• Define enterprise patterns for APIs, events, messaging, batch processing, data exchange, and third-party connectivity to ensure systems exchange information securely, reliably, consistently in accordance with enterprise data-governance requirements
• Partner with data leaders to align architecture with authoritative data sources, metadata, lineage, quality, privacy, and analytics objectives
• Evaluate build, buy, partner, and retire options and provide architecture input to portfolio prioritization and budgeting
• Assess proposed solutions for strategic fit, scalability, interoperability, security, resilience, implementation risk, total cost of ownership, vendor concentration, and exit strategy
• Participate in requests for proposal, due diligence, contract reviews, proofs of concept, and major technology negotiations as appropriate
• Ensure privacy, cybersecurity, identity, availability, disaster recovery, records retention, accessibility, and regulatory requirements are incorporated into architecture decisions
• Partner with cybersecurity, risk, legal, compliance, audit, and business continuity teams to identify and mitigate architectural risk
• Escalate designs or exceptions that create unacceptable operational, security, compliance,…