Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

We currently have a career opportunity for an Enterprise Architect to join our team located in Boston, MA. This is an on client site, hybrid role.

Job Overview:

The Enterprise Architect is the senior architecture authority responsible for shaping the target-state of the enterprise across all architecture domains — Business, Data, Application, and Technology — and for governing how strategy is translated into a coherent, executable architecture. The Enterprise Architect partners with executive leadership to align technology investment with business strategy, sets architectural standards and reference patterns, and ensures that programs and solutions deliver against a unified long-range roadmap.

This role operates at the intersection of business strategy and technology execution. It is distinct from a Solutions Architect (who designs a specific solution) and a Technical Architect (who owns the buildable technology design). The Enterprise Architect owns the system of systems.

Enterprise Strategy & Architecture

• Define and maintain the enterprise target-state architecture across Business, Data, Application, and Technology domains
• Translate corporate strategy into an architecture roadmap with sequenced capability and platform investments
• Maintain reference architectures, architecture principles, and decision records (ADRs) that govern enterprise change
• Lead capability-based planning and portfolio rationalization in partnership with Business Architects and product leadership

Architecture Governance

• Chair or participate in the Architecture Review Board (ARB); approve or reject solution designs against enterprise standards
• Establish and enforce architecture standards for integration, data, security, cloud, and platform engineering
• Manage architectural risk, technical debt, and end-of-life remediation across the portfolio
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and data-governance obligations across the architecture

Cross-Domain Design Leadership

• Direct the integration of business capabilities, information models, application portfolios, and infrastructure into a coherent whole
• Resolve cross-program architectural conflicts and dependencies
• Lead technology selection and vendor evaluation for enterprise-grade platforms
• Define integration, API, event, and data-flow patterns at the enterprise level

Stakeholder Engagement

• Advise the CIO, CTO, CDO, and senior business leaders on architecture implications of strategic decisions
• Represent the enterprise architecture position in executive forums, investment committees, and board-level reviews
• Translate technical complexity into clear executive-level narratives and trade-off analyses

Talent & Practice Development

• Mentor Solutions Architects, Technical Architects, and Business Architects
• Build and evolve the architecture practice — methods, tooling, modelling standards, and architecture community
• Contribute to thought leadership and external positioning of the architecture function

Required Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of progressive architecture experience, with at least 3 years in an Enterprise Architect or equivalent capacity
• Demonstrated delivery of large-scale, multi-system enterprise transformations
• Expertise in at least one EA framework: TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF, or DoDAF
• Proficiency with architecture modelling tools and notations:
  Archi Mate, UML, BPMN
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), integration patterns (API, event-driven, ESB), data architecture, and modern security and identity frameworks
• Working knowledge of all four EA domains, with deep expertise in at least two
• Experience leading or participating in an Architecture Review Board or equivalent governance body
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills; ability to engage credibly from engineer to C-suite

Preferred Qualifications

• TOGAF 9 / 10 Certified Architect, or equivalent (Zachman, FEAF, SAFe Enterprise Architect)
• Industry-specific architecture experience (financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, retail)
• Familiarity with business architecture practices
• Experience embedding AI / ML platforms, data mesh / data fabric, or…