Senior Enterprise Architect

Become a part of our caring community   The Senior Enterprise Architect translates business needs into technical systems solutions and architectural roadmaps. The Senior Enterprise Architect work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. The Senior Enterprise Architect will serve as a strategic technology leader supporting the organization’s digital transformation, cloud adoption, and modernization initiatives. This role will define target-state architecture, guide complex solution designs, and ensure technology decisions align with enterprise standards, security requirements, architectural governance, and business priorities. The Senior Enterprise Architect will collaborate with application teams, infrastructure teams, security partners, business leaders, and vendors to develop scalable, secure, and practical architecture solutions. This position will also create reusable cloud patterns, reference architectures, standards, and implementation guidance that enable teams to adopt modern technology efficiently and consistently. Key Responsibilities • Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures aligned with business and technology strategies. • Lead architecture planning for complex enterprise, cloud, application modernization, and integration initiatives. • Guide teams in designing, building, modernizing, and migrating applications and services to cloud environments. • Establish reusable cloud patterns, reference architectures, frameworks, standards, playbooks, and technical guardrails. • Evaluate technologies, products, and services for scalability, security, interoperability, cost, and alignment with enterprise standards. • Lead architecture reviews, technical workshops, design discussions, and proofs of concept. • Identify technical risks, dependencies, design trade-offs, and modernization opportunities. • Ensure solutions comply with architecture, governance, security, data-management, and technology standards. • Provide technical guidance throughout implementation and confirm that delivered solutions align with approved designs. • Partners with business leaders, engineers, architects, security teams, and vendors to establish priorities and resolve technical challenges. • Present architecture recommendations, risks, and strategic options to technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Provide thought leadership, coaching, and technical guidance to architects, developers, and engineering teams. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field. • 10+ years of experience in application design, software development, systems engineering, or technology architecture. • Progressive experience as an enterprise architect, solution architect, cloud architect, senior technical lead, or similar role. • Experience leading architecture across multiple enterprise applications, platforms, or technology domains. • Experience with cloud, hybrid-cloud, application modernization, or legacy-system transformation initiatives. • Experience developing target-state architecture, solution designs, technology roadmaps, and reference architectures. • Strong knowledge of scalability, resiliency, security, availability, observability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. • Experience with enterprise integration technologies, including APIs, web services, messaging, or event-driven architecture. • Experience applying architecture governance, information security requirements, and enterprise technology standards. • Strong analytical, technical documentation, stakeholder-management, and executive communication sk