Enterprise Architect

The Enterprise Architecture (EA) department serves as a strategic function within the organization, responsible for aligning technology capabilities with business objectives. The team drives enterprise-wide strategy and innovation, evaluating emerging technologies and shaping future-state architectures to enable digital transformation. Through strong governance, the EA department establishes architectural standards, frameworks, and oversight processes that ensure consistency, scalability, and risk management across the technology landscape.

An Enterprise Architect serves as a strategic advisor and change agent across the entire enterprise. This role involves leading technology transformations, developing enterprise strategies, identifying opportunities, creating business cases, and fostering innovation. The primary goal is to enhance manageability, effectiveness, efficiency, and agility, ensuring IT aligns with business needs. As a technical and strategic leader, the Enterprise Architect mentors others in architecture and governance, and communicates effectively with executive management, IT management, project managers, other architects, development teams, and line of business management to provide transparency and manage expectations.

Our team thrives on collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation. We work closely together, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and sharing our expertise to solve complex problems efficiently. By encouraging creativity and adaptability, we experiment with new tools and methodologies, fostering a dynamic and tech-forward work environment. Additionally, we focus on creating a positive and supportive atmosphere, ensuring everyone feels valued and motivated to excel.

• You will lead enterprise strategy development, identify opportunities, and drive innovation and technology adoption.
• You will act as a strategic advisor throughout the entire technology lifecycle.
• You will define and maintain architecture principles, standards, and reference frameworks for IT teams.
• You will oversee architecture governance, compliance, and security to ensure alignment with the target state architecture.
• You will promote enterprise architecture strategies and processes to IT and business leadership.
• You will provide architectural leadership for major enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.
• You will collaborate with internal and external experts to achieve architecture goals and evaluate emerging technology trends.

This level of knowledge is normally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree in a related field and 12+ years of technical experience. Additional experience can be used in lieu of a degree. Architecture certifications are strongly preferred. It is also preferred that the candidate have Banking and Financial Service experience.

• Ten or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.
• Experience facilitating and leading multi-disciplined, high-performance teams. Experience with large scale project delivery.
• Ability to enable decision making by collaborating with key stakeholders and the extended IT team to deliver results, and to resolve conflicts expediently.
• Experience with defining enterprise architecture best practices and guidelines with a focus on business impact.
• Proven ability to lead the development of architecture assessment, roadmaps, and strategies. Experience in defining enterprise architecture current and future states, capabilities, mapping applications to capabilities, performing capability gap analysis, defining business values, and identifying and evaluating options to close gaps.
• Proven success in applying a structured approach to analyze business problems and architect innovative technology-based solutions within the defined enterprise guidelines and standards.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments. Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Ability to define, maintain and manage architecture models, frameworks, and artifacts for the enterprise.
• Ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions.
• Ability to estimate the monetary impact of EA alternatives.