Role Overview
As an Enterprise Architect, you will ensure that digital initiatives align with business strategy, enterprise architecture principles, governance standards, security requirements, and target-state capabilities. Acting as an independent reviewer, you will provide architectural oversight, promote technology standardization, and help guide strategic technology decisions across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture governance and feasibility reviews.
- Review solution designs and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles and technology standards.
- Assess compliance with security, data, integration, AI, and platform guidelines.
- Recommend approval, conditional approval, or escalation of architecture decisions.
- Maintain enterprise capability maps and application portfolio views.
- Identify overlapping solutions, technology duplication, and technical debt.
- Support the definition of target architectures and transformation roadmaps.
- Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and validate solution fit within the enterprise landscape.
- Review non-functional requirements, including scalability, resilience, security, and supportability.
- Identify architecture risks and contribute to technology simplification and rationalization initiatives.
- Collaborate with Solution Architects, Domain Architects, and governance teams to maintain architecture principles, reference architectures, and review practices.
Success Indicators
- Timely completion of architecture reviews.
- High compliance with enterprise architecture standards.
- Reduced technology duplication and technical debt.
- Increased adoption of strategic platforms and standards.
- Positive stakeholder feedback on the governance process.
Profile
- 5+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture.
- Strong understanding of architecture governance and stakeholder management.
- Broad knowledge of applications, integration, data, security, cloud, and modern enterprise technologies.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and influencing skills.
- Ability to challenge architectural decisions in a constructive and pragmatic way.
- Experience in large, complex organizations is an advantage.