Enterprise Architect
Summary
Enterprise Architect reviews and governs digital initiatives to ensure alignment with business strategy, security, and enterprise architecture standards across applications, data, integration, cloud, and AI.
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.