Enterprise Architect

Position: Enterprise Architect 2
Job Description

The Enterprise Architect 2 (Data) is a principal-level architect responsible for defining, advancing, and governing the Church's enterprise data architecture strategy. This role establishes organization-wide architectural standards, patterns, and governance across data domains such as data cataloging, data orchestration, data warehousing, enterprise data integration, and interoperability, ensuring they are effective, followed, and deliver measurable value.

Working across multiple portfolios, the architect partners with senior enterprise architects, portfolio architects, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders to shape the future-state enterprise data ecosystem. This includes evaluating and introducing capabilities such as Master Data Management (MDM), integration platforms (iPaaS), and enterprise data platforms to ensure data is discoverable, trusted, governed, and effectively leveraged to support mission outcomes and customer expectations.

The role leads strategy across the Data domain such as entity correlation and data interoperability, enabling consistent, high-quality data flows across systems and portfolios. The Enterprise Architect 2 (Data) also plays a key role in guiding organizational responses to emerging data technologies and disruptive trends, ensuring technical decisions align with Church standards, architectural integrity, and long-term enterprise strategy.

This role is primarily focused on enterprise data architecture and data platform strategy.

This individual works with divine guidance to provide or support technology that furthers the mission of the Church and reflects the eternal impact of the gospel.

We value early, mid and late-career candidates and encourage all applicants with the posted skills and abilities to apply.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture strategy, including data platforms, integration patterns, and governance models.

• Establish standards for data cataloging, metadata management, and data lineage.

• Lead architecture for data orchestration and data pipeline design across batch and real-time systems.

• Define and guide enterprise data warehousing/lakehouse strategies.

• Evaluate and recommend Data capabilities, including build vs. buy decisions.

• Lead entity resolution and correlation strategies across disparate systems.

• Partner with business and product teams to define authoritative data sources and domain ownership.

• Establish patterns for data quality, stewardship, and governance.

• Guide selection and implementation of data integration technologies.

• Ensure interoperability and consistency of data across portfolios.

• Mentor and train Portfolio Architects.

• Provide architectural leadership, guidance, and support for the broader architecture community.

• Mentor and coach technical resources across the organization.

• Understand technology trends and how emerging technologies can be used to meet business needs.

• Understand data and analytics technology trends, including data platforms, integration patterns, and governance capabilities.

• Prepare and deliver comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction.

• Establish and document the technical architecture future state that will guide technology decisions for the organization.

• Assist with high-level migration plans to address gaps between the current and future technology state.

• Lead analysis of current technology environment to identify deficiencies and recommend improvements.

• Fulfill temporary assignments to provide leadership on software development teams for large projects with broad impact to the organization.

• Develop strong relationships with and act as a trusted advisor to Portfolio Directors, portfolio architects, Solution Managers and Division Directors.

• Manage and participate in the process for evaluating architectural fit and assessing risk for third-party technology solutions.

• Document the technology strategy with reference guides, standards, architecture principles, technology radar, and best practices.

• Participate on cross-portfolio committees to define direction and create standards for the organization.

• Champion the…