Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: Cleveland OH (Hybrid)

Job Type: Full-Time

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Enterprise Architect to join our this role you will play a pivotal role in shaping our technology landscape ensuring alignment with business goals and driving digital transformation initiatives. If you are a visionary leader with a deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles and a passion for designing and optimizing complex systems we invite you to apply.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Enterprise Architecture Strategy: Develop and maintain the organizations enterprise architecture strategy ensuring alignment with business objectives and IT capabilities.

2. Architecture Framework: Establish and maintain an architecture framework to guide the development of enterprise solutions and systems.

3. Technology Roadmap: Define and communicate a technology roadmap that supports the organizations long-term goals including digital transformation initiatives.

4. Solution Design: Collaborate with business leaders and IT teams to design and document end-to-end solutions ensuring scalability security and maintainability.

5. Standards and Best Practices: Define and enforce architectural standards and best practices to ensure consistency and quality across IT projects.

6. Governance and Compliance: Implement and oversee enterprise architecture governance processes ensuring compliance with architectural standards and policies.

7. Technology Evaluation: Evaluate emerging technologies and trends making recommendations for their adoption and integration into the organizations architecture.

8. Risk Assessment: Identify potential risks and challenges in the architecture and propose mitigation strategies.

9. Collaboration: Collaborate closely with stakeholders including executives department heads project managers and technology teams to ensure architectural alignment with business needs.

10. Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of enterprise architecture including architectural diagrams models and documentation.

Qualifications:

Formal Education & Certification

Bachelors degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science Computer Engineering or Information Technology field of study (e.g. Information Technology Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Computer Systems Management Mathematics) or equivalent experience.

Masters degree a plus.

TOGAF CEAP CSA CSEA Cloud Architecture (AWS/Azure) or similar certifications a plus.

CSM SAFe ITIL APQC or similar training/certifications a plus.

Knowledge & Experience

12 years IT experience.

8 years of developing complex enterprise systems.

8 years of Application Architecture experience leveraging custom Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) or Cloud (SaaS/PaaS) components.

8 years of hands-on experience applying systems thinking to create documentation technical models reference architecture whitepapers and presentations for use by all levels of management functional and technical staff.

Experience in the architecture and development of large-scale high-risk strategic Digital Transformation Programs including projects such as ERP Ecommerce Enterprise Data Fabric CRM Digital Workplace etc.

Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures.

Experience creating and maintaining Enterprise Application Roadmaps.

Experience with modern integration technologies and microservice best practices.

Experience conducting and supporting teams through architecture tradeoff management to arrive at design decisions guided by sponsor/stakeholder priorities.

Experience conducting proof-of-concepts developing prototypes and building reference models.

Experience developing and governing architecture standards and principles.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

Prior experience designing application & platform strategies and communicating the vision to a community of stakeholders

Experience in leading major Digital transformation programs in key business areas

Experience in Application Portfolio Management and Continuous Delivery Pipelines (DevOps)

Ability to understand complex technical concepts and translate them for a non-technical audience

Experience leading or speaking at trade conferences publishing content or active participation in professional meetups/guilds

Strong understanding of Cloud-native application architecture

Experience applying international constraints and context to enterprise architecture

Experience deploying and training change management and enablement frameworks

Experience developing architecture for new product/platform teams

Experience in applying systems and design thinking methodology to architecture practices

How to Apply:

If you are a visionary leader with a passion for enterprise architecture and a desire to drive innovation within our organization please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your qualifications and relevant experience to . Please include Enterprise Architect Application in the subject line. We look forward to reviewing your application.

John Radcliff

IT Recruiter at Emerald Resource Group

Phone

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1 Eagle Valley Ct #201

Broadview Heights OH 44147

We are an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.