IT Enterprise Architect

Key Accountabilities/Deliverables

• Define and evolve enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, and reference architectures, patterns & practices for Cloud, Data, Security, Integration.
• Lead Community of Practice (CoP) and Architecture Review Board (ARB) and to enforce governance and guardrails across all major initiatives.
• Develop multi-year cloud transformation and modernization roadmaps aligned to business strategy.
• Actively design and review solution architectures across cloud-native platforms.
• Validate infrastructure and application designs using IaC (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, GitOps and automation frameworks.
• Provide hands-on guidance to engineering & platform teams on performance, scalability, and resiliency patterns.
• Enable adoption of Azure/AWS cloud-native services, platform engineering models, and reusable capabilities.
• Establish standard patterns for API-driven integration, event-driven architectures, and domain-aligned services.
• Enable engineering teams with reference implementations, templates, and accelerators.
• Ensure architecture aligns with regulatory requirements.
• Embed Zero Trust, identity-first security, and data protection strategies into all architectures.
• Partner with Security and Risk teams to mitigate systemic risks across platforms.
• Define cloud cost optimization strategies (rightsizing, reserved capacity, tagging governance).
• Establish visibility through cost dashboards and FinOps practices.
• Balance architectural decisions between performance, cost, and resilience.
• Standardize data integration patterns across core systems of record.
• Provide guidance to data architecture ensuring alignment with governance platforms (e.g., data catalog, MDM, lineage).
• Collaborate on data strategies supporting analytics and machine learning initiatives.
• Lead strategic vendor evaluations (e.g., Azure vs AWS services, SaaS platforms).
• Influence contract decisions, architectural fit, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and avoid vendor lock-in risks.

Technical Knowledge and Understanding

• Deep expertise in Azure and/or AWS architectures (multi-region, high availability, DR/BCP design).
• Strong hands-on experience with: Containers (Azure Container Apps, AKS/EKS), Serverless (Azure Functions, AWS Lambda) and API Management and Application gateways.
• Engineering & Automation: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, or similar), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, or similar), Observability and SRE practices (Datadog, App Insights, or similar).
• Platform engineering and developer experience optimization: Identity & Access Management (Entra ID / AWS IAM), Zero Trust architecture, Logging, monitoring, and compliance frameworks.
• Data & Integration: Enterprise data platforms (Fabric, data lakes, warehousing), Data governance (Purview or equivalent), API-first and event-driven integration patterns.

Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in IT architecture, software engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
• 2+ years of experience operating as an Enterprise Architect in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Proven experience driving cloud transformation and modernization initiatives across Azure/AWS ecosystems.
• Demonstrated hands-on engineering experience—not limited to conceptual architecture.
• Experience in regulated industries (Insurance/Financial Services preferred).