Senior Principal Enterprise Architect

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Drive the creation, maturation, and evolution of an integrated Maximus Enterprise Architecture practice, including governance, data standards, reference architectures, capability models, and enterprise roadmaps.
- Guide teams across programs, platforms, and business units in adopting common patterns, shared services, authoritative data sources, and enterprise-wide data and technology practices.
- Lead the development, evolution, and maintenance of a real-time or near-real-time core enterprise data set that Maximus employees and leadership consume and contribute to daily-ensuring it is complete, correct, relevant, timely, and actionable.
- Define and maintain enterprise principles, guardrails, and reference models across business, data, application, and technology domains.
- Train stakeholders on how to use the enterprise architecture to identify capability gaps, redundancies, and modernization opportunities across programs and business segments.
- Assist the data team in defining and enforcing enterprise data standards, data domains, and authoritative data sources.
- Participate in the creation of the enterprise data catalog, including metadata, lineage, stewardship models, and taxonomy management.
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to guide the enterprise data pipeline strategy, ensuring reusability, interoperability, and alignment with governance standards.
- Drive adoption of enterprise data-sharing patterns, semantic consistency, and data quality frameworks.
- Work with stakeholders to define target-state application portfolios, integration patterns, shared platforms, and modernization pathways.
- Provide enterprise-wide guidance on platform rationalization, reuse of common services, and legacy modernization.
- Partner with the data team to establish standards for API governance, integration architectures, microservices strategy, and event-driven patterns.
- Work with the data team and key stakeholders to build and maintain enterprise technology standards spanning cloud, security, infrastructure, DevSecOps, and shared platform services.
- Establish rules for implementing emerging technologies with meaningful enterprise impact, and develop adoption recommendations, pilots, and guardrails.

Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 12+ years of relevant professional experience required.

- Must show a proven track record establishing and maturing enterprise architecture practices; developing reference architectures, capability models, and enterprise roadmaps; and guiding cross-organizational adoption of standards, shared services, and authoritative data sources.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Enterprise Architecture Development, Strategy & Governance

- Contribute to the definition, execution, and maturity of the Maximus Enterprise Architecture framework under the guidance of the Senior Principal EA.

- Maintain and enhance enterprise prin...