Enterprise Architect

Overview:

The Enterprise Architect supports business and IT leaders in driving digital transformation, optimizing operations, and achieving strategic outcomes like revenue growth, cost efficiency, risk mitigation, and sustainability. They align business strategies with technology architectures, guide innovation, and foster an enterprise-wide architectural vision.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead strategy development, connecting business goals to technology execution through roadmaps and architectures.
• Build strong partnerships across business and IT, advocating for architecture value and supporting cross-functional collaboration.
• Analyze market trends, disruptive forces, and emerging technologies to identify opportunities and risks.
• Shape the enterprise operating model, modernize IT portfolios, and ensure architecture governance.
• Drive innovation through trend analysis, piloting new solutions, and integrating them into business operations.
• Mentor teams, promote architectural thinking, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

Qualifications:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years’ experience across strategy, operations, business, solution, or technical architecture.
• Expertise in modern technologies (SaaS, APIs, microservices, cloud platforms) and enterprise frameworks (EA, ITIL, Agile).
• Strong financial, strategic planning, and risk management skills.

Skills and Competencies:

• Visionary thinking with strong execution capability.
• Excellent leadership, consulting, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong communication skills to bridge business and technical audiences.
• Deep knowledge of operating models (project- and product-centric), agile methodologies, and digital business strategies.
• Highly collaborative, innovative, and pragmatic approach to decision-making.

Personal Attributes:

• Trusted advisor to executives, business, and IT leaders.
• Technology-agnostic and outcome-driven.
• Resilient, politically savvy, and skilled at influencing at all levels.