Enterprise Platform Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Advise on and influence the development of enterprise platform architectures.
  • Create reusable patterns.
  • Develop reference architectures and set technical standards.
  • Collaborate with platform teams and architecture governance bodies.
  • Provide guidance on using shared platforms and services.
  • Aid teams in aligning with enterprise principles.
  • Ensure platform designs meet security standards.
  • Ensure they are resilient, scalable, and operationally effective.
  • Translate enterprise architecture principles into useful guidance.
  • Create platform blueprints, decision trees, deployment patterns, and reference examples.
• Strategic Advisory & Enablement
  • Serve as a senior platform architecture advisor to Business Enablement and Platforms.
  • Guide design decisions, trade-offs, and roadmap alignment.
  • Explain the platform's capabilities and limitations.
  • Discuss integration methods.
  • Provide direction for architectural decisions on complex initiatives.
  • Support the solution and delivery teams.
  • Influence platform adoption and standardization through collaboration rather than mandate.
• Governance & Architecture Review
  • Document decisions about platform architecture.
  • Ensure they are traceable and meet enterprise security standards.
• Technical Debt & Maturity Management
  • Lead the strategy to reduce technical debt from outdated and unnecessary technologies.
  • Develop and maintain platform maturity models, assessment frameworks, and tracking mechanisms.
  • Create dashboards and metrics to provide visibility into platform health, adoption, and risk.
  • Partner with engineering and operations teams to embed technical debt considerations into planning and delivery cycles.
• Lifecycle & Roadmap Management
  • Lead practices for managing the platform's lifecycle.
  • Forecast technology needs.
  • Assess supportability and plan for end-of-life.
  • Support planning based on capabilities.
  • Provide views focused on the platform, options, and models for future states.
• Collaboration & Execution Support
  • Facilitate and lead platform architecture design sessions, reviews, and stakeholder working forums.
  • Partner with engineering, security, infrastructure, and operations teams throughout design, build, and run phases.
  • Support the transition from architectural guidance to execution through hands-on collaboration and enablement.
  • Act as an escalation point for complex platform design challenges and cross-platform integration issues.
  • Support & Troubleshoot complex platform and shared service architecture issues.
  • Resolve architecture-related risks, constraints, and dependencies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise, platform, solution, or domain architecture roles.
• Proven experience defining and governing enterprise platform standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Strong background in cloud architecture, with deep hands-on and design experience in Microsoft Azure preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading or evolving architecture governance and review processes.
• Experience developing and executing technical debt management strategies and maturity models.
• Experience with technology and platform lifecycle management, including forecasting and end-of-life planning.
• A solid knowledge of enterprise platforms is important. Familiarity with shared services and integration architectures is required.
• Proven ability to collaborate with InfoSec, Business Enablement, Platform, DevSecOps, and application teams.
• Ability to translate business strategy into platform roadmaps and future-state architectures.
• Solid influence and communication skills, with experience engaging senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience working across multiple business units in a federated enterprise environment.
• Proficient analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with LeanIX, ServiceNow, or enterprise architecture repositories.
• Experience designing or governing cloud platforms, shared services, and reusable implementation patterns.
• Background in platform-centric solution architecture (security or infrastructure architecture a plus).
• Experience in building architecture dashboards.
• Experience with inventories.
• Experience with maturity assessments.
• Familiarity with Power Platform for enterprise tooling, workflow automation, and governance enablement.
• Experience in supporting large transformation projects, including initiatives for modernization and portfolio rationalization.
• Architecture certifications such as TOGAF, Azure Architecture, or equivalent are a plus.