Enterprise Architect

Brief Description

Pay: $151,000-196,900
Location: 5x/week onsite in St. Louis, MO; Kansas City, MO; or Cleveland, OH (potential relocation assistance available)
Job type: Direct hire
Company: The name of our partner organization will be disclosed during the interview process. This is not a direct role with LaunchCode; it is a position through LaunchCode, working with one of our partner companies.

About the Role

The Treasury Enterprise Architect provides strategic technical guidance and establishes enterprise architecture standards and patterns for the Treasury business lines supported by St. Louis which are owned by the Department of Treasury’s Bureau of Fiscal Service.

Responsibilities

• Strategic technical guidance and establishment of enterprise architecture standards and patterns
• Align technology strategies with business objectives and ensure architecture supports scalability, reusability, security and innovation
• Define strategic direction of technologies, standards, processes and target state architectures
• Guide the organization to incorporate architecture design patterns, system best practices and system standards
• Leverage in-depth knowledge of current technology, industry standards and frameworks, security best practices and emerging technologies to accelerate business value, delivery and outcomes
• Represent the Treasury portfolio in system workgroups and establish effective frameworks and mechanisms for bidirectional communication flow from these system workgroups to local stakeholders and technical teams
• Facilitate stakeholder technical discussions, build consensus across groups with competing priorities and divergent perspectives, lead to a cloud optimized, technical roadmap for each program and application team
• Ensure Treasury portfolio needs and perspective is represented at the system level
• Lead technical discussions, provide architectural guidance and influence technology decisions
• Create a community of practices with other enterprise architects, solution architects and application architects
• Mentor and facilitate internal knowledge sharing
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Technology Leaders, developers, architects, partners, peers and business users in the design and delivery of technology business solutions
• Deliver proof of concepts and support multiple product teams as they first move to the cloud and then optimize and modernize in the cloud
• Demonstrate strong decision-making and problem-solving skills to effectively manage conflicting priorities and diverse stakeholder needs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals while maintaining timelines and team cohesion
• Ensure the implementation and maintenance of robust security protocols in partnership with Information Security team and security champions
• Provide data-driven technical leadership using metrics, dashboard and information radiators to make data visible, transparent and solution focused

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution design and large-scale technology implementations in complex, highly regulated environments
• Deep understanding of modern technology stacks, cloud platforms (AWS preferred), data governance and enterprise software solutions
• Expertise in architectural frameworks such as TOGAF
• General understanding of the cyber security threat landscape and controls in a highly regulated GovCloud environment
• Thorough understanding of AWS security architecture to enable design of solutions and integrations with least privilege across services, resources and data
• Extensive, in-depth experience implementing highly complex technology projects in a cross-functional matrix environment with demonstrated ability to drive consensus and deliver results
• Examples of leading through influence and successfully resolving conflicting priorities
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, including translating technical topics and risks into business teams
• Ability to personalize communication to audience from technologists to executive leadership
• Ability to obtain Security Clearance which requires US Citizenship
• Demonstrated knowledge of and leading adoption of industry best practices in the areas of application development, solution architecture, agile methodologies, cloud development, cybersecurity
• Industry-related certifications in one or more of the above areas are desired