Enterprise Architect

About the Company

The Andersons is a North American leader in agribusiness and renewable fuels, operating in a unique space that brings together agriculture, energy, and global markets. From the farm to customers worldwide, we help move food, feed, and fuel where it’s needed most. Our business spans the full value chain, directly supporting farmers, customers, and communities daily. We advance sustainable energy solutions and deliver essential products while fostering a performance-driven, people-powered culture where employees are owners, sharing in success and shaping the future. We invest in development opportunities, meaningful career paths, and a collaborative culture that encourages growth and continuous improvement.

At the core of everything we do is our Statement of Principles: providing extraordinary service to customers, helping employees improve, supporting communities, and increasing shareholder value.

About the Role

This position is responsible for defining and maintaining the organization’s overall architecture framework, ensuring technology strategy aligns with business objectives. The Enterprise Architect provides strategic guidance for technology investments, promotes architectural coherence across systems and processes, and drives innovation through enterprise-level design principles. This role requires a holistic view of the organization’s technology landscape and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework, aligning IT strategy with business goals and defining roadmaps to guide architectural evolution.
• Establish and enforce governance processes to ensure compliance with architecture standards, principles, and best practices.
• Provide strategic guidance on technology investments and innovation, evaluating emerging technologies and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Ensure cohesive integration of systems and technologies across the enterprise by collaborating with architects and addressing technical debt and alignment challenges.
• Assess current-state architectures to identify gaps and opportunities and define target-state solutions with actionable transition plans for continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with business and IT leaders to shape architectural strategy, provide guidance to teams, and influence technology decisions across the organization.

Expectations

• Demonstrates expertise in own area within the organization.
• Required specialized depth and/or breadth of experience.
• Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends solutions/best practices.
• Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify solutions.

Competencies

• Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Business Insight: Applies knowledge of the business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieves results, even under challenging circumstances.
• Manages Ambiguity: Operates effectively in uncertain or unclear situations.
• Organizational Savvy: Maneuvers comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Master’s Degree preferred.
• 7-10 years’ relevant experience as an Enterprise or Domain Architect.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, SAP EA, Zachman).
• Experience with enterprise architecture management tools (e.g., LeanIX, Ardoq, MEGA).
• Experience with leading digital transformation initiatives, cloud transformation, and cloud computing.
• Certifications in relevant technologies (e.g., SAP EA, AWS, Azure) preferred.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or similar software.

Physical Requirements and Working Environment

Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working at a computer.