Principal Enterprise Architect

Job Description

Overview: 12-month Contract to Hire

Reporting to the Head of Architecture, the Principal Enterprise Architect works closely with the Application Development, Infrastructure, Security, Data & Analytics, and PMO teams to provide overall architecture leadership.

The Principal Enterprise Architect must possess deep technology experiences with application development lifecycles to build out the architecture vision, strategy, and capability roadmap. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience envisioning and translating overall architecture with business needs via transformation roadmaps, establish target architecture and standards for the organization, building consensus, and provide guidance in the selling and execution within solution development processes of options and reuse points.

Essential Function:

* Provides senior level expertise on overall direction, guidance, definition, decisions, and priorities regarding the enterprise's overall architecture to effectively support the organization business strategy.

Interact with business leaders, IT leaders, vendors and industry experts to translate business requirements, understand options to capabilities, and create architecture blueprints and high-level solution designs for the most complex architectural components of a program.

* Strategy – Interfaces across several business areas, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining direction for future projects. Help business leaders and their teams think through the technology, business and operational implications of their technology investment decisions.

* Execution – Reviews, advises, and designs standard software and hardware builds, system options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on the enterprise business process and goals. Be the architecture thought leader and trusted go-to partner for Product and Engineering leadership across the organization, recommending innovative solutions to improve live and new system architectures.

* Operations – Facilitates the establishment and implementation of standards and reference material that guides the design of technology solutions. Lead architectural collaboration and governing processes including Architecture Review Boards, Solution Architecture reviews, exception management, and related processes.

* Innovation - Responsible for researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and delivering solutions that are appropriate for the business and technologies strategies. Tracks industry trends and maintains knowledge of new technologies to better serve the enterprise's architecture needs.

3 open roles! Each EA has a different focus:

1- Full stack DevSecOps within an architecture role

Application Domain Qualifications: Technologies:- Concourse- Copado- Copilot- Docker- Gearset- GitHub- Jenkins- Kubernetes- Postman- Salesforce- SAP- ServiceNow- Sonar

Application Domain Capability Areas: AI/ML- API Gateway & Management- Application Components- Development Tools- DevSecOps- GenAI- Integration- Intelligent Automation- Runtime Environments- Security

2- Primarily in full stack Cloud architecture within an architecture role.

Technology Domain Qualifications: Technologies:- Azure compute products, Cisco, Docker, Equinix, Kubernetes, Microsoft solutions, Mulesoft, Palo Alto, ServiceNow, VMWare, OnPrem migrations to Cloud solutions

Technology Domain Capability Areas: APIs, Automation, Cloud Services, Compute, Databases, Development Tools, End User Computing & Management, Infrastructure as Code, Logging & Monitoring, Network Segmentation (private & public), Runtime Environments, Security, Service Operations, Storage, Unified Communications

3- Full stack customer channels & corporate solution applications within an architecture role.

Application Domain Qualifications: Technologies:- Concourse- Copado- Copilot- Docker- Gearset- GitHub- Jenkins- Kubernetes- Postman- Salesforce- SAP- ServiceNow

Application Domain Capability Areas: Agile Development - AI/ML- API Gateway & Management - Commerce - Composable Architecture - Customer Service - Development Tools- DevSecOps- HR - Integration- Marketing - Runtime Environments- Sales - Security - Supply Chain

**Monday, Thursday, Friday remote; Tuesday-Wednesday onsite until September, then Tuesday-Thursday onsite**

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent work experience - Required.

10+ years of relevant enterprise-wide architecture - Required.

Experience in directing and mentoring other architects in the team and across the organization.

Experience with on-premise solutions and cloud platforms on Azure, AWS.

Deep knowledge of API-first design patterns, Technology skills across multiple IT domains (e.g. application, data, infrastructure, security) Strong consultative skills at a cross-functional level, Strong skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and LeanIX, Knowledge of TOGAF, ITIL, and other architecture / business process frameworks. Experience in application development, systems management, and/or project management is a plus. Leadership competencies in:

Organizing and Setting Priorities- Managing and Measuring Work- Peer Relationships- Continuous Improvement- Motivating Others- Self-motivated; capable of managing multiple tasks.