Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture

Warsaw - Poland

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Senior Director & Head of Enterprise Architecture is Fortreas most senior architecture leadership role accountable for defining and governing the enterprise technology blueprint that enables scale resilience modernization and business growth. This executive leads the Enterprise Architecture (EA) function sets Fortreawide architecture strategy and standards and ensures technology decisions across all domains align with our business objectives regulatory obligations and longterm vision.

The role serves as the primary architecture advisor to the VP Technology Solutions & Services and partners closely with leaders across Infrastructure Workplace Network Hosting Cybersecurity Platforms Data & Integration and Application/Product teams. This position ensures that all technology components operate cohesively and efficiently driving a consistent secure scalable and costeffective technology ecosystem for Fortrea.

Summary of Responsibilities:

1. Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Leadership
Define Fortreas multiyear enterprise architecture vision strategy and reference models across infrastructure cloud data integration cybersecurity workplace and applications.
Translate business strategy into technology roadmaps that enable operational excellence clinical development capabilities and futureready IT platforms.
Establish and maintain Fortreas enterprise architecture repository principles and guardrails.

2. Standards Guardrails & Technology Governance
Own publish and maintain enterprise technology standards approved patterns and prohibited components.
Lead the formal exceptiongovernance process ensuring risk licensing regulatory and financial considerations are properly evaluated.
Drive wide adoption of architectural guardrails and ensure consistency across all business units and technical domains.
3. Architecture Review Board (ARB) Leadership
Chair the Architecture Review Board (ARB) and serve as Fortreas authoritative voice on architectural feasibility compliance integration and alignment to enterprise strategy.
Ensure timely robust architectural assessments for new initiatives major platform changes and vendordriven solutions.
Provide transparent decisionmaking risk identification and clear rationale for approvals conditions or escalations.
4. Integration Interoperability & Platform Coherence
Ensure all technology domains operate cohesively eliminating fragmentation and enabling scalable integrated endtoend solutions.
Oversee architectural alignment across shared services platforms and enterprise capabilities (e.g. identity networking data cloud automation observability).
Drive modernization and rationalization initiatives to reduce technical debt simplify the environment and improve performance and resilience.
5. Data Integration & Security Architecture Alignment
Partner with Data & Integration Architecture Cybersecurity and Hosting teams to ensure data flows integration platforms and cloud/hosting strategies align with enterprise guardrails.
Champion securitybydesign privacybydesign and compliance as core architectural principles.
Promote adoption of modern integration patterns (APIs eventing managed services) that enable scalability and efficiency.
6. Executive Advisory & Stakeholder Leadership
Serve as trusted advisor to the VP FTSS CIO and senior business leaders on technology strategy architectural risks and modernization investments.
Partner with Product Engineering Clinical Technologies and Corporate Functions to ensure architectural considerations are embedded early in planning processes.
Represent Enterprise Architecture in executive reviews portfolio governance and strategic planning forums.
7. Leadership of the Enterprise Architecture Organization
Lead develop and mentor a highperforming global Enterprise Architecture team spanning enterprise solution domain and security architecture competencies.
Build a culture of architectural excellence shared accountability and collaboration across architecture communities and platform teams.
Establish operating rhythms EA communities of practice and standards for architectural artifacts and engagement models

Experience (Minimum Required):

At least 10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture or a related field.
Proven leadership and management experience in IT strategy and enterprise architecture
CRO experience
Extensive experience in implementing enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF.
Established track record of successfully implementing complex IT projects from ideation to deployment within set timelines and budgets.
Experience in governing the architecture process with cross-functional IT teams.
Experience in organizational change management innovation and technological transformation.

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