Responsibilities
- Translate business and product strategy into enterprise-level architectural direction and roadmaps
- Define and maintain the target architecture across business, application, data, and technology layers
- Define and evolve the enterprise architecture metamodel and maintain the EA repository
- Assess and document as-is architectures, identify gaps, overlaps, and structural risks, and drive simplification
- Lead strategic architecture initiatives such as application rationalization and modernization
- Manage strategic technology risks across the organization
- Define and steward architecture principles, standards, and guardrails
- Review and challenge major architectural decisions, ensuring alignment with long-term goals
- Support executive decision-making with clear trade-offs and options, not just diagrams
- Govern the adoption of new tools and platforms across the organization as well as decommissioning efforts
- Continuously improve architecture governance practices to remain lightweight and effective
- Act as a trusted advisor and liaison between business, product, engineering, data, and security stakeholders
- Partner with Solution Architects and Tech Leads to align local designs with enterprise direction
- Work with IT and Security teams to ensure architectures align with security strategies and policies
- Participate in agile, cross-functional teams, providing architectural guidance for specific business domains
- Translate business, product, and technical requirements into architecture specifications for selected enterprise initiatives
- Collaborate on data architecture, analytics, and data governance models (e.g. data mesh, federated ownership)
- Guide the responsible adoption of AI/ML and agent-based capabilities across the enterprise
- Evaluate emerging technologies and trends with a business-value lens, avoiding hype-driven decisions
- Contribute to the improvement of IT service management tools and processes
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve the Enterprise Architecture practice
