Director, Enterprise Architecture Strategy, Core Platform

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Job Description:

Director, Enterprise Architecture Strategy, Core Platform The Director, Enterprise Architecture Strategy is the architecture strategist supporting the Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Architecture, Core Platforms.

The Director drives the architecture integration strategy across cloud, on premise, network, application platforms, and foundational technology services. The role translates enterprise and business priorities into actionable architecture direction, roadmaps, investment priorities, standards, and modernization outcomes.

Working closely with the AVP, other Enterprise Architects, technology executives, engineering leaders, and domain and solution architects, the Director ensures that architecture priorities are aligned with business, operational, security, regulatory, and cost outcomes.

What will you do?
· Working in collaboration with the other Enterprise Architects, define future-state architectures, transition roadmaps, principles, standards, reference architectures, and decision boundaries.
· Provide strategic analysis, recommendations, visibility and executive reporting into architecture decisions, investments, dependencies, risks, and outcomes.
· Maintain an integrated view of architecture priorities, decisions, dependencies, and outcomes.
· Translate business priorities, executive direction, regulatory obligations, operational risks, and technology constraints into actionable architecture priorities.
· Integrate cloud, infrastructure, network, security, identity, platform, API, and application architecture into a coherent enterprise direction.
· Facilitate joint architecture planning and decision-making where initiatives cross business, portfolio, or technology boundaries.
· Promote the reuse of enterprise capabilities, platforms, standards, patterns, and architecture decisions.
· Escalate unresolved cross-domain decisions to the appropriate architecture or executive authority.
· Lead architecture governance and ensure architecture decisions are documented, traceable, implementable, and aligned with security, resilience, operational, financial, and compliance requirements.
· Partner with engineering and operational leaders to validate that architecture direction is practical, financially responsible, and sustainable in production.
· Define and communicate measurable outcomes for technology health, risk reduction, resilience, cost efficiency, simplification and platform adoption.

What you'll need to succeed?
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Technology Management, or a related discipline. A master’s degree is preferred.
· Enterprise architecture credentials such as TOGAF, IASA CITA, or an equivalent architecture certification are preferred.
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