Enterprise Architect

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for the design authority, technical standards, and target-state architecture that guide how Berry Dunn builds and operates business technology across the Microsoft cloud. The role owns the practical application of Berry Dunn's architectural principles and standards, with a primary focus on the firm's FY27 AI strategy, evaluation of emerging technology, and the migration of workloads from the on-premises data center to Microsoft Azure.

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for the design authority, technical standards, and target-state architecture that guide how Berry Dunn builds and operates business technology across the Microsoft cloud. The role owns the practical application of Berry Dunn's architectural principles and standards, with a primary focus on the firm's FY27 AI strategy, evaluation of emerging technology, and the migration of workloads from the on-premises data center to Microsoft Azure.

This role is the firm's senior architecture authority for AI-enabled business applications, Azure platform services, Power Platform, and integration patterns. It defines target-state patterns, maintains the standards catalog and architecture decision records, chairs architecture review, and sets production-readiness expectations so that solutions are secure, governed, reusable, and supportable before they reach production.

The Enterprise Architect leads the architecture workstream for Berry Dunn's move off the on-premises data center: assessing the current estate, defining the Azure landing zone and identity/network baselines, selecting migration and modernization dispositions for each workload, and sequencing waves with the IT Systems, Engineering, Security, and Applications teams. The role also owns the technology radar, evaluating emerging Microsoft and AI capabilities, running structured proof of concept, and recommending what the firm adopts, maintains, or retires.

The role partners closely with IT leadership, Security, Infrastructure, Applications, Analytics, Data Engineering and Governance, and the AI Community of Practice, and engage business stakeholders across Tax, Assurance, Audit and Consulting. As the senior subject-matter expert, the Enterprise Architect is expected to coach delivery teams, publish reusable reference architectures, and reduce design rework and one-off solutions.

The ideal candidate is a pragmatic, standards-driven technologist and people manager who balances governance with delivery speed, can influence without direct authority, develops and supports team members, and communicates architectural trade-offs, risk, and cost clearly to both technical teams and executive stakeholders.

This role requires minimal travel, less than 10% per year.

• Own, maintain, and evolve Berry Dunn's architectural principles and standards catalog, including standard identifiers, acceptance criteria, evidence expectations, owners, and review cadence.
• Serve as design authority for AI, automation, integration, application, and Microsoft cloud solutions; approve target-state designs and document exceptions with compensating controls.
• Chair or lead the architecture review gate so that all significant solutions and AI agents receive documented review, risk tiering, and go/no-go decisions before production.
• Maintain architecture decision records, reference architectures, solution patterns, and reusable design assets that reduce rework across teams.
• Align architecture work to the firm's TOGAF-based governance model and to enterprise, data, application, and technology architecture domains.

• Provide architectural…