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We are seeking an Enterprise Architect to help lead the architecture change process governed by our Architecture Review Board (ARB). In this role you will evaluate proposed solutions across the full enterprise architecture landscape — Business, Data, Application, and Technology (BDAT) — assess them against our architecture principles, standards, and target-state roadmaps, and guide project and solution teams toward designs that are sound, secure, cost-effective, and strategically aligned. This is a breadth-first role with depth in at least one domain. You will spend less time building systems and more time shaping how systems fit together, why they should exist, and what the enterprise should stop doing. You will need to be equally credible talking about a value stream with a business VP and a network topology with an infrastructure engineer. Our environment includes on-premises data centers, mainframe workloads deployed to cloud, and a substantial Microsoft Azure footprint, so practical hybrid-enterprise experience matters.
Co-lead the intake, triage, and review of architecture change requests entering the ARB, ensuring each submission has the artifacts, context, and analysis needed for an informed decision.
Assess proposals against enterprise architecture principles, reference architectures, standards, and target-state roadmaps; identify risks, gaps, dependencies, and overlaps with existing capabilities.
Facilitate ARB sessions: frame the decision, surface trade-offs, drive to a clear outcome, and prevent reviews from becoming design workshops.
Author and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), conditional approvals, and time-bound exceptions or waivers, including the remediation path attached to each exception.
Track accepted architecture risk and technical debt created through waivers, and report on it to governance and leadership forums.
Evolve the governance process itself — review criteria, submission templates, fast-track paths for low-risk changes, and the definition of what does and does not require ARB review.
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Coach solution architects, engineers, and product teams so that proposals arrive review-ready and the standards are understood before designs are drawn.
Develop and maintain business capability models, value streams, and business process views, and use them to map where technology investment actually lands.
Trace proposed changes back to business drivers, outcomes, and capability gaps; challenge initiatives that cannot articulate the capability they improve.
Partner with business stakeholders and product owners to translate strategy and operating-model changes into architecture requirements and roadmap implications.
Perform capability-based gap analysis between current and target state, and help sequence transition architectures that deliver value incrementally.
Define and govern enterprise data architecture: conceptual and logical data models, canonical and reference data, data domains, and authoritative sources of record.
Review proposed changes for data integration patterns, data movement, latency and consistency requirements, lineage, and downstream impact on analytics and reporting.
Partner with data governance, privacy, and security functions on data classification, retention, residency, sovereignty, and regulatory obligations.
Guide the architecture of analytics and data platforms, including data warehouse, lakehouse, streaming, and master data management approaches, and the boundaries between operational and analytical estates.
Reduce data duplication and point-to-point sprawl by promoting shared data services, contracts, and interoperability standards.
Own and evolve technology reference architectures and standards spanning compute, platform, network, and infrastructure services across on-premises, hybrid, and Azure environments.
Provide architectural direction for cloud and hybrid network design, including segmentation, connectivity between data centers, cloud-hosted mainframe workloads, and Azure landing zones.
Embed security and identity architecture into designs: zero-trust principles, network segmentation, encryption in transit and at rest, identity and access management, and secrets management.
Set expectations for resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity — recovery objectives, failover patterns, and the architectural evidence required to demonstrate them.
Maintain a technology lifecycle view and technology radar: what is emerging, standard, contained, or being retired, and the roadmap for eliminating unsupported components.
Partner with platform and DevOps teams on Infrastructure as Code, automation, and reference implementations so that approved patterns are the easiest ones for teams to adopt.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Significant experience in enterprise, domain, or solution architecture, including demonstrable work across at least three of the four BDAT domains and deep expertise in at least one.
Direct experience participating in or supporting an Architecture Review Board, design authority, or comparable governance body — including making a recommendation that was unpopular and defending it well.
Experience developing architecture artifacts that were actually used: capability models, current- and target-state views, roadmaps, reference architectures, and decision records.
Hands-on background in a hybrid enterprise environment spanning on-premises infrastructure and a major public cloud, with practical Azure experience strongly preferred.
Experience with application portfolio rationalization, integration architecture, or large-scale modernization of legacy or mainframe-hosted workloads.
Exposure to regulated or audited environments and the compliance obligations that shape architecture decisions.
TOGAF certification (Foundation or Practitioner) strongly preferred; equivalent frameworks such as Zachman, ArchiMate certification, or SAFe Architect are also valued.
Azure Solutions Architect Expert or comparable cloud architecture certification.
Certifications in security, data, or integration domains are a plus (for example, CISSP, CCSP, CDMP).
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