IT Enterprise Architect

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The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and governing the enterprise technology strategy, architecture standards, and transformation roadmap across our environment.

This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical depth, requiring active engagement in architecture design, solution validation, and engineering execution.

The ideal candidate has 15+ years of experience, including 2–3+ years operating specifically in an Enterprise Architect capacity, driving cloud-native transformation, modernization, and multi-cloud governance.

The Enterprise Architect ensures alignment between business strategy, regulatory requirements, and technology platforms—while enabling scalable, secure, and cost-optimized solutions across Azure, AWS, and enterprise SaaS ecosystems.

Key Accountabilities/Deliverables:


* Enterprise Strategy & Architecture Governance
+ Define and evolve enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, and reference architectures, patterns & practices for Cloud, Data, Security, Integration.
+ Lead Community of Practice (CoP) and Architecture Review Board (ARB) and to enforce governance and guardrails across all major initiatives
+ Develop multi-year cloud transformation and modernization roadmaps aligned to business strategy



* Hands-On Architecture & Solution Design
+ Actively design and review solution architectures across cloud-native platforms
+ Validate infrastructure and application designs using IaC (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, GitOps and automation frameworks
+ Provide hands-on guidance to engineering & platform teams on performance, scalability, and resiliency patterns



* Cloud & Platform Engineering Enablement
+ Drive adoption of Azure/AWS cloud-native services, platform engineering models, and reusable capabilities
+ Establish standard patterns for API-driven integration, event-driven architectures, and domain-aligned services
+ Enable engineering teams with reference implementations, templates, and accelerators



* Security, Compliance & Risk Management
+ Ensure architecture aligns with regulatory requirements
+ Embed Zero Trust, identity-first security, and data protection strategies into all architectures
+ Partner with Security and Risk teams to mitigate systemic risks across platforms



* Cost Optimization & FinOps
+ Define cloud cost optimization strategies (rightsizing, reserved capacity, tagging governance)
+ Establish visibility through cost dashboards and FinOps practices
+ Balance architectural decisions between performance, cost, and resilience



* Data & AI Readiness
+ Standardize data integration patterns across core systems of record
+ Provide guidance to data architecture ensuring alignment with governance platforms (e.g., data catalog, MDM, lineage)
+ Collaborate on data strateg...