Enterprise Architect - White & Case

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for aligning business strategy, processes, data, applications, and technology to support the organization's strategic objectives. This role serves as a key advisor and governance partner to business and technology stakeholders, ensuring that new initiatives, systems, and solutions are architected in a way that promotes business value, minimizes risk, maximizes reuse, and supports long-term enterprise goals.

The Enterprise Architect leads solution and integration design activities, validates technology demands, oversees information and data architecture practices, and collaborates with governance teams to ensure data quality, lineage, compliance, and architectural consistency across the enterprise. The role also plays a critical part in evaluating emerging technologies, vendor solutions, business roadmaps, and AI-related capabilities to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and future-state architecture.

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture standards, principles, and target-state architectures
• Align technology investments, business capabilities, processes, and data assets with organizational objectives
• Partner with business and technology leaders to develop strategic roadmaps and architectural direction
• Maintain enterprise-wide visibility of applications, technologies, processes, integrations, and data assets

• Evaluate new business and technology demands to confirm strategic alignment and eliminate duplication of capabilities or solutions.
• Participate in governance processes to ensure initiatives comply with enterprise standards, policies, and architectural principles.
• Provide architectural reviews and recommendations throughout project life cycles
• Support PMO and governance activities through defined work breakdown structures, controls, and accountability models

• Design and review enterprise solutions that address both current and future business requirements.
• Ensure solutions adequately represent stakeholder needs, operational requirements, scalability, resiliency, security, and maintainability.

• Lead integration architecture and interface design activities across enterprise systems.
• Create integration specifications that reduce implementation risk and encourage reuse of existing services and capabilities.
• Maintain and evolve the enterprise integration repository and interface inventory.
• Define data flows, interfaces, and integration patterns supporting enterprise interoperability.

• Establish and maintain information architecture standards and data models.
• Ensure consistent use of enterprise data definitions, business rules, and governance policies.