Senior Enterprise/Business Architect

What You’ll Be Doing

• Enterprise Business Architecture
• Develop and maintain business capability models, value streams, and business process views to support strategic planning and execution.
• Define current and target-state architectures across business, application, data, and technology layers.
• Architecture Governance & Standards
• Define, document, and enforce enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures.
• Participate in architecture reviews to ensure solution designs align with enterprise direction, security, and compliance requirements.
• Provide architectural guidance to delivery teams throughout the enterprise delivery lifecycle.
• Application & Technology Portfolio Management
• Support enterprise application and technology portfolio management, including rationalization, lifecycle management, and dependency mapping.
• Analyze cost, risk, technical debt, and business value to inform roadmap and investment decisions.
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, and security teams to assess technology lifecycle impacts (e.g., EOL/EOS).
• Enterprise Architecture Platforms & Data
• Contribute to the development and adoption of enterprise architecture tools and platforms that consolidate strategy, execution, and operational data.
• Ensure high-quality architecture data, models, and relationships are maintained to support reporting and decision-making.
• Stakeholder Partnership & Influence
• Collaborate with business leaders, product owners, and engineering teams to translate complex business needs into architecture direction.
• Communicate architecture concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Serve as a trusted advisor, influencing decisions across teams and levels of the organization.
• Mentoring
• Mentor and guide less experienced architects and engineers on architecture best practices.
• Promote continuous improvement in architecture methods, tools, and ways of working.

What You Bring to the Table

• Strong strategic thinking with an enterprise mindset.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking skills.
• Ability to influence without authority and navigate complex stakeholder environments.
• Clear, concise verbal and written communication skills across technical and business audiences.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of progressively complex experience in enterprise, solution or business architecture roles.
• Demonstrated mastery of modern architecture and design patterns across web, data-intensive and distributed systems, including AI Driven Agentic Systems, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Microservices, Event-Driven and API-first architectures, cloud-native platforms, containers/orchestration, and performance, resilience, security, and observability by design.
• Strong experience with AI, enterprise data and integration architectures.
• Proven ability to partner closely with engineering teams to guide solution design from concept through implementation.
• Hands-on proficiency working with operational and financial data to support portfolio analysis, rationalization, risk management, and roadmap decisions in large-scale enterprise environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s or Doctoral degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Familiarity with TOGAF and ArchiMate, including enterprise architecture governance concepts, capability-to-solution traceability, and creation and interpretation of architecture models.
• Experience supporting or operating within complex, large-scale enterprise or retail environments with diverse technology portfolios.