Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and evolution of market/enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring the capabilities and investments required to execute Securian’s business strategies are clearly defined and governed.
• Partner with Business Architects to define and evolve future-state business capabilities that support enterprise and market objectives.
• Establish and evolve enterprise target-state architecture aligned to business strategy, market priorities, and long-term enterprise objectives.
• Align business capability roadmaps, technology roadmaps, and data strategies into a cohesive enterprise transformation direction.
• Collaborate with Technology Architects to establish and communicate a clear technology north star that guides enterprise investments, modernization efforts, innovation initiatives, platform evolution, and technology lifecycle decisions.
• Define and maintain enterprise technology principles, standards, architectural guardrails, and strategic technology direction.
• Help shape enterprise data strategy to support growth, operational excellence, analytics, AI adoption, and business innovation.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders, helping shape enterprise strategy, business transformation initiatives, and investment priorities.
• Lead enterprise architecture governance for major initiatives, architecturally significant changes, and non-standard technology decisions.

• Demonstrated experience defining enterprise strategy, enterprise architecture direction, target-state architectures, governance models, and technology strategies aligned to business objectives.
• Proven ability to translate business strategy into enterprise capabilities, architecture roadmaps, modernization priorities, and investment recommendations.
• Experience working across business architecture, technology architecture, data architecture, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience guiding enterprise-level decision-making involving business capabilities, technology investments, data strategies, and modernization efforts.
• Experience establishing and governing enterprise standards, architectural guardrails, and technology lifecycle strategies.
• Broad knowledge across business architecture, application architecture, data architecture, technology architecture, cloud platforms, AI-enabled technologies, and enterprise governance practices.
• Strong executive communication and relationship management skills with demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive enterprise-wide alignment.
• Proven ability to facilitate complex trade-off discussions and guide strategic decisions balancing business value, risk, cost, innovation, and sustainability.
• Experience mentoring architects, engineers, and technical leaders while advancing organizational architecture maturity.