Director of Enterprise Architecture

Job Description:

Note:

Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position

The Role

The Director of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is responsible for driving enterprise-wide alignment, adoption, and adherence to architecture strategies, standards, and governance practices. This role serves as a critical bridge between enterprise strategy and execution, ensuring technology solutions, platforms, and systems align with business objectives and target-state architectures.

This is a hands-on leadership role that combines deep technical engagement with organizational influence. The Director actively participates in architecture analysis, solution design, system evaluations, and technology decisions while leading governance, compliance, and architecture alignment efforts across the enterprise.

The role is accountable for establishing visibility into architecture health, compliance, risk, and performance through data-driven insights, ensuring technology investments support both business outcomes and enterprise standards. By partnering closely with Architecture, Engineering, Product, Security, and Business leaders, the Director drives consistency, modernization, and continuous improvement across the technology landscape.

This role carries enterprise-wide responsibility for architecture alignment, governance execution, and standards adoption. The Director has direct influence over solution architecture, system design, integration patterns, and technology decisions, with significant impact on delivery quality, platform consistency, operational efficiency, resiliency, and modernization outcomes. As a key leader within the Enterprise Architecture organization, this role ensures architecture strategy is successfully translated into execution and measurable business value.

Key responsibilities include:

* Drive alignment of systems, platforms, and solutions with enterprise architecture strategies and target-state roadmaps.

* Translate enterprise architecture standards, principles, and policies into actionable guidance for delivery teams.

* Actively participate in solution design reviews, architecture assessments, and technology evaluations.

* Define architecture patterns, integration approaches, and solution strategies that support business and technology objectives.

* Provide hands-on leadership in architecture analysis, solution shaping, and complex design decisions.

* Lead and operationalize enterprise architecture governance processes, forums, and controls.

* Ensure adherence to architecture standards, integration patterns, design principles, and governance policies.

* Identify, assess, and address architectural drift, policy exceptions, technical debt, and technology risks.

* Establish and maintain architecture observability practices that provide visibility into system health, resiliency, compliance, and performance.

* Define and track architecture KPIs and metrics to measure effectiveness, maturity, alignment, and adoption.

* Provide enterprise-wide visibility into technical debt, integration complexity, system resiliency, architecture health, and technology risk.

* Translate architecture and operational data into actionable insights that inform strategic and operational decision-making.

* Enable fact-based tradeoff decisions across modernization, integration, platform usage, and technology investments.

* Partner across Architecture, Engineering, Product, Security, and Business organizations to drive alignment and execution.

* Serve as a liaison between Enterprise Architecture strategy and delivery execution.

* Influence stakeholders through governance, collaboration, and data-driven communication.

* Drive continuous improvement by reducing technical debt, eliminating duplication, and promoting modern architecture practices, including API-first, event-driven, cloud-native, and platform-based approaches.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

* 12+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Systems Architecture, or related disciplines.

* Proven experience operating within an Enterprise Architecture function, including architecture governance, standards, and frameworks.

* Demonstrated…