Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture & Technology

Accountabilities

• Define and continuously evolve enterprise architecture strategy, principles, standards, policies, guardrails, reference architectures, and target-state direction in partnership with technology executives and architecture leaders.
• Establish and maintain effective architecture governance practices that promote consistent, scalable, secure, and value-driven technology decisions.
• Provide strategic recommendations that align technology choices with business objectives, risk tolerance, operational requirements, and long-term enterprise strategy.
• Partner with senior business and technology leaders to evaluate priorities, shape technology direction, and support enterprise transformation and modernization initiatives.
• Aggregate technology plans across business units and domains, assess enterprise-wide alignment, identify overlaps and gaps, and develop architecture-informed recommendations.
• Facilitate collaboration across architecture, engineering, security, data, infrastructure, cloud, AI, and application teams to ensure integrated technology solutions.
• Assess enterprise technology roadmaps and identify opportunities to increase business value, reduce risk, improve capabilities, and optimize technology investments.
• Provide leadership and oversight for transition and target-state architecture roadmaps, including modernization initiatives designed to achieve strategic business outcomes.
• Monitor emerging technologies, market developments, and industry trends to identify opportunities for innovation and inform long-term technology planning.
• Communicate architecture vision, priorities, recommendations, risks, and strategic trade-offs clearly to executive leadership and key stakeholders.
• Build and develop architecture talent through coaching, performance management, capability development, and communities of practice.
• Promote continuous improvement by using metrics, stakeholder feedback, and delivery outcomes to strengthen architecture practices and governance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in technology, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience, with additional relevant experience in the functional area.
• At least 6 years of management experience, including responsibilities for hiring, developing, assigning work, and managing the performance of direct reports.
• Deep technology expertise and demonstrated ability to establish and mature enterprise architecture strategies, standards, principles, policies, guardrails, reference architectures, and target-state roadmaps.
• Strong understanding across multiple technology domains, including integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, AI, security, and custom application architecture.
• Proven ability to synthesize business-unit and domain technology strategies into a cohesive enterprise view, identifying dependencies, gaps, overlaps, risks, and opportunities.
• Experience balancing enterprise architecture governance and standards with delivery speed, business priorities, innovation, and practical implementation constraints.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture strategy, technology governance, roadmap development, modernization, and technology investment planning.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively at the enterprise level and influence senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technology concepts and strategic recommendations to executive and non-technical audiences.
• Strong business acumen, leadership capabilities, strategic thinking, and sound independent judgment.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, build consensus, manage competing priorities, and foster collaborative relationships across diverse technical teams.
• Commitment to continuous improvement through measurable outcomes, feedback, and data-driven decision-making.
• For remote work, a high level of engagement in virtual environments is expected, including maintaining camera presence during meetings when appropriate to support communication and team alignment.

Benefits

• Salary range: $126,000–$191,625 USD, with actual compensation determined by experience and other job-related factors.
• Potential eligibility for bonuses, commissions, and other incentive compensation.
• Comprehensive employee benefits package.
• Remote work opportunity within the United States.
• Opportunity to influence enterprise-wide technology strategy and architecture direction.
• Exposure to executive leadership and high-impact transformation initiatives.
• Opportunity to build and develop architecture teams and enterprise technology capabilities.
• Collaborative environment spanning cloud, AI, data, security, infrastructure, engineering, and application architecture.
• Ability to contribute to modernization and innovation initiatives with broad organizational impact.