Principal Architect- Enterprise Architecture

About the role

The ideal candidate will serve as a strategic technology partner to the business, translating strategic opportunities into actionable, business-aligned technology strategies. This role ensures that technology investments deliver measurable value and support the organization's long-term objectives.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders and IT to understand strategic objectives and translate them into actionable architecture artifacts (capability maps, value streams, operating models, and roadmaps).
• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework, ensuring alignment between business goals and IT strategy.
• Support portfolio planning by linking initiatives to capabilities and strategic outcomes.
• Track and communicate the value delivered by technology initiatives, using metrics and KPIs to demonstrate business impact.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops and architecture reviews to drive alignment and decision making.
• Establish and maintain architectural standards, templates, and governance practices.
• Promote application, integration, data architecture strategy, including data governance, quality, security.
• Lead the adoption and integration of AI/ML technologies across capabilities, ensuring responsible and ethical use of AI.
• Interact with various business and IT stakeholders throughout the planning, PMO, SDLC, and Service Management processes.
• Responsible for retirement of obsolete applications and technologies.
• Incorporate domain-specific strategies into the future state BU app portfolio.
• Enable alignment to standards and frameworks with other related business and IT processes and patterns from an architectural standpoint.
• Lead / facilitate the creation of governing principles to guide information, technology, and solution decision making for the enterprise.
• Oversee development and maintenance of conceptual, logical, and physical application architecture.

Requirements

You must bring deep expertise in Integration, ERP, Data, AI, and related domains, and excel at bridging business needs with innovative technology solutions.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree and 16+ years relevant experience, or Graduate degree and 12+ years relevant experience.
• Previous experience as a successful enterprise architect highly desirable.
• Five years of experience in solution architecture, business analysis or business strategic planning.
• Functional Skills: Ability to tie together solutions across systems, Business acumen in multiple capability areas (Finance, Supply Chain, Enterprise Services), preferably in manufacturing industry, Business process modeling, Facilitation, Knowledge of required technologies (incl 3rd party solutions), Understanding of future technologies, Project & Product Delivery Model knowledge, Strong understanding of value tracking methodologies and experience with business case development, Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Technical Skills: Cloud computing / SaaS technologies - Azure, Google, AWS, Container Strategies - (Kubernetes, EC2, Docker), DevOps, Microservices, Enterprise architecture Framework- TOGAF,Zachman, Integration Architecture - APIs, ESBs, ETL, REST/SOAP, Data Analytics - NoSQL, Data Lakes, Power BI/Tableau, Security Framework, AI/ML Frameworks, ERPs.

Skills

• Ability to tie together solutions across systems.
• Business acumen in multiple capability areas (Finance, Supply Chain, Enterprise Services), preferably in manufacturing industry.
• Business process modeling.
• Facilitation.
• Knowledge of required technologies (incl 3rd party solutions).
• Understanding of future technologies.
• Project & Product Delivery Model knowledge.
• Strong understanding of value tracking methodologies and experience with business case development.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Technical Skills: Cloud computing / SaaS technologies - Azure, Google, AWS, Container Strategies - (Kubernetes, EC2, Docker), DevOps, Microservices, Enterprise architecture Framework- TOGAF,Zachman, Integration Architecture - APIs, ESBs, ETL, REST/SOAP, Data Analytics - NoSQL, Data Lakes, Power BI/Tableau, Security Framework, AI/ML Frameworks, ERPs.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Life
• Vision
• Disability
• 401(k)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs

Pay

$134,300.00 - $231,700.00

Schedule

Remote