Enterprise Architect

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About the role

The Enterprise Architect oversees multiple dimensions of assigned applications and/or capabilities including stability, life cycle management, version control, design and development of technology solutions, mapping of business requirements to capability-oriented technical requirements, and ensuring technology solutions to business needs are developed in accordance with the enterprise architectural roadmap, guidelines, and standards. This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay. This position is incentive eligible.

Responsibilities

• Manages end-to-end from conception, through delivery, into production of enterprise architectures
• Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Leads the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects
• Designs both the physical and logical components of solution architectures that will deliver a positive business outcome
• Collaborates with other domain architects to provide a consensus-based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
• Oversees technical analysis and design capabilities
• Facilitates technology design workshops for emerging technologies
• Validates designs produced by third-party vendors wishing to sell solutions to the organization
• Aligns IT strategy and planning with the company’s business goals and objectives
• Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows
• Collaborates on roadmaps to align information technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies
• Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology
• Works with developers to ensure that technical solutions align with the overall Information Technology architecture frameworks and design guidelines
• Works with Portfolio technology leaders to include technical debt initiatives in the portfolio roadmap
• Oversees data integration and configuration
• Provides consultation on the most complex projects
• Leads the work of others
• Engages effectively with cross-functional teams, demonstrating strong interpersonal skills, communication, and influence to drive alignment across business and technology stakeholders
• Applies strong business acumen to ensure architectural decisions support organizational strategy, financial considerations, and expected business outcomes

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and ten (10) years of enterprise, solutions, and/or technical architecture experience
• Experience with N-tier architectures and complex design architectures
• Experience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery techniques and methodologies
• Experience with Agile methods

Qualifications

• Certifications in the technology domain of the enterprise

Skills

• An understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise-wide technical strategies
• Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation {BPMN}, Unified Modeling Language {UML})
• Hands-on experience in one or more popular programming languages like Java, Go, C#, Rust, Python, etc.
• Knowledge of security design techniques
• Understanding of the technology of the organization, e.g., Middleware, .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Oracle, etc.
• Working knowledge of modern Operating Systems (Linux/Windows), Networking, Servers/Mainframe, Secure Coding Practices, Development Environments (Java/.Net), Databases (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server)
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to build relationships, influence without authority, and communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated business acumen, including understanding of financial impacts, organizational strategy, and how architectural decisions support business objectives

Schedule

This position is intended to be onsite, now or in the near future. Associates will have regular work hours, including full days in the office three or more days a week. The manager will set the work schedule for this position, including in-office expectations.

Pay

• Minimum Job Range Target: $170,048.45 USD
• Median: $209,120.00 USD

Pay ranges are job-specific and are provided as a point-of-market reference for compensation decisions. Other factors which directly impact pay for individual associates include: experience, skills, knowledge, contribution, job location, and, most importantly, performance in the job role.

Incentive Pay Plans

• This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary incentive plan. Employees are eligible to receive a discretionary award based on individual, business, and/or company performance.
• Opportunity to participate in the Long-Term Incentive Plan.

Benefits

• Paid Vacation/Sick Time
• 401K with Company Match
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• Disability Benefits
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Associate Volunteer Program

Please note, benefits and plans may be changed, amended, or terminated with respect to all or any class of associate at any time.

Location

Available locations for this role are Birmingham, AL; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; or Charlotte, NC. This position is based at the Riverchase Operations Center in Hoover, Alabama. Regions will not provide relocation assistance or sponsor applicants for work visas for this position at this time. Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.