Director, Enterprise Architecture

Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Director of Enterprise Architecture leads the development and evolution of NMDP's enterprise-wide technology blueprint and multi-year roadmap, ensuring that technology decisions and investments align with organizational goals and strategic direction.

This role oversees a team of enterprise architects, providing strategic guidance and solution leadership across all major technology initiatives.

This leader partners closely with business leaders, product management, and IT teams to define and guide the future-state architecture, modernize core platforms, and solution design across the enterprise.

Acting as a key strategic thought leader and influencer, the Director communicates complex architectural concepts in clear business terms, builds strong cross-functional relationships, and drives adoption of architecture standards throughout the organization.

This leader ensures that NMDP's technology landscape is coherent, future-ready, and able to support enterprise growth, innovation, and operational excellence.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Execution:


* Define and continuously evolve the enterprise architecture blueprint and multi-year roadmap in alignment with business strategy.


* Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend modernization opportunities.


* Promote shared platforms, integration patterns, and reusable architecture components.


* Ensure architectural coherence across application, data, and technology portfolios.


* Industry trends in cloud, AI, automation, data platforms, integration technologies, DevSecOps, and modern engineering practices.

Enterprise Solution & Governance:


* Collaborate with solution architects to define scalable and adaptable enterprise solutions.


* Lead enterprise architecture governance, standards, and design reviews.


* Ensure architecture documentation standardized and maintained.


* Balance near-term delivery with long-term architectural direction.

Workforce and Leadership:


* Embodies leadership competencies, effective behavioral and performance standards, and nurtures relationships within the architecture team and among peers/colleagues across IT.


* Hires, mentors and develop architects across domains.


* Plans and manage architecture consulting and advisory engagements.


* Manage architecture-related budgets and forecasts.

Other Accountabilities:


* Maintain expertise in emerging technologies and EA industry trends.


* Continuously assess the applicability of new technologies.


* Other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Knowledge of:


* Experience architecting and integrating enterprise solutions on Salesforce and Oracle platforms (e.g., CRM, ERP, data, and workflow modernization) and aligning these platforms within a broader enterprise architecture and cloud strategy.


* Software development and testing methodologies along with experience in regulator...