Sr. Enterprise Architect – Manufacturing

Job Description:
Location:
This position requires the candidate to work onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in Seattle, WA, and remotely on Mondays and Fridays.

Role Summary
As our client’s industry and technology are constantly evolving, we are seeking a proactive collaborator to partner with individuals and teams across the organization – from our enterprise leaders to our site engineers – to formulate strategies & roadmaps that drive business outcomes and capabilities. The role requires influential leadership skills and the ability to work together with teams across the company at all levels of the organization.

We need the right person that canhelp us safely achieve our growth strategies in wood products manufacturing& operations.

The ideal candidate is passionate, collaborative, thrives in a team environment, and is committed to lifelong learning. They will play a significant role in the continuous investment in our business sectors and aid in the advancement of enterprise architecture practices.

Candidates shouldpossesssignificant domain knowledge, broad technical experience, be able to foster robust relationships with diverse stakeholders, and promote alignment with contemporary data and information – operations technology (IT-OT) methodologies. Outstanding business insight, strategic thought process, knowledge of cross-functional integration, comprehension of the impact of infrastructure on applications, and excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential. Must be able to understand the enterprise implications and trade-offs as well as solution-level technology,valueand risks.

Requirements:

• Formulate strategies, standards, good practices, and guide execution
• Formulate, communicate, and uphold architectural strategies and standards in alignment with our growth strategies
• Partner with senior leadership todetermineand prioritize architectural initiatives
• Lead the development of technology strategies, patterns and roadmaps that deliver new and improved business capabilities and outcomes
• Evaluate the organization’s current technology portfolio and recommend enhancements and upgrades
• Identify and align technology to business outcomes
• Facilitate problem solving, solutioning as well as providing an “third‑party” perspective to business and IT
• Clearly communicate options, trade‑off’s, impactsof different scenarios, dependencies and prioritization
• Build andmaintainrelationships
• Engage with key vendors and technical communities to stay current and gain outside perspective
• Build trust with Business, OT & IT leaders enabling a collaborative atmosphere between technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Partner with business subject matter experts, IT solution architects, IT security, OTengineersand others to deliver impactful solutions
• Support the convergence of IT‑OT by working across process control,engineering and IT
• Engage with different business units and departments tocomprehendtheir needs and provide architectural solutions accordingly
• Coach and mentor others on client IT processes, architectureskillsand strategic approaches
• Guide and drive the IT Portfolio
• Guide the development and refresh of 5‑year technology and investment roadmaps, aligning technology trends, business strategy and other IT and business priorities
• Provides guidance andparticipatesin alternative analysis and architecture development
• Partner with project team to ensure solutions align to technology strategies and standards andassistwith project architecture reviews
• Provide strategic counsel for project activities with delivery teams to guide integration efforts
• Highlight opportunities for automation, consolidation, and process optimization to minimize costs and improve efficiency,…