Enterprise Architect
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Job Location:
Fort Worth, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
11 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
How will this role impact First Command
This role supports the execution of First Commands enterprise architecture strategy by collaborating across business and technology teams to model current and future states provide insights and ensure alignment between initiatives non-initiatives and strategic goals. The ideal candidate understands both enterprise and business architecture frameworks and applies them pragmatically to support decision-making governance and change management.
The Enterprise Architect partners with senior leadership to ensure IT investments and initiatives align with strategic objectives. Success in this role requires a strong grasp of architecture principles and governance applied in a practical way to serve the organization and its stakeholders.
This role supports both initiative-driven efforts and continuous advisory services by leveraging architecture insights capability maps and LeanIX data. It works closely with Business Architecture to ensure that business motivations operations and strategic priorities are reflected in technology decisions and architectural models.
The Enterprise Architect also collaborates with stakeholders to define capabilities value streams and business models that inform technology and process decisions.
What will the employee do in this role
- Ensure traceability from strategic objectives to initiatives capabilities and technology investments.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to capture capability maps identify pain points applications and initiative impacts.
- Maintain and evolve architecture artifacts in LeanIX ensuring accuracy and usability.
- Map and analyze business processes to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and identify improvement opportunities.
- Support initiative intake and prioritization by providing architectural insights and impact assessments.
- Participate in governance forums and conduct architecture reviews for projects and changes.
- Identify opportunities for simplification modernization and reuse across systems and processes.
- Define and maintain current interim and target states for architecture domains.
- Facilitate workshops to capture business processes capability maturity and strategic priorities.
- Promote awareness of architecture principles and practices across teams.
- Lead initiatives to modernize legacy systems and integrate new technologies seamlessly.
- Translate strategic themes into capability-based roadmaps and architectural targets.
- Collaborate with business units to describe customer-facing supplier-related execution and management functions.
What skills and qualifications do you need
Education
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field
Work Experience
- 5 years in IT or architecture-related roles.
- Experience with EA tools (LeanIX preferred) and frameworks (TOGAF Zachman etc.).
- Experience visualizing and modeling high-level business structures and processes.
- Familiarity with business capability modeling application portfolio management and technology lifecycle.
Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Strong analytical modeling and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to apply architectural principles across both business and technology domains.
- Skilled in translating business strategy into architecture views and capability models.
- Deep understanding of business models operating models and value stream mapping.
- Practical experience with EA frameworks (e.g. TOGAF Zachman) to support governance prioritization and portfolio management.
- Effective communicator across cross-functional teams and organizational levels.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive consensus.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced initiative-driven environment.
- Demonstrated success in leading change and continuous improvement initiatives.
- High integrity professionalism and ethical standards.
- Collaborative mindset with a focus on producing innovative enterprise-wide solutions.
- Strong grasp of how EA supports governance prioritization and strategic change.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- SAP BusinessObjects
- Enterprise Architecture
- Hybris
- SAP HANA
- SAP
- TOGAF
- Solution Architecture
- Cloud Architecture
- SAP BW 4HANA
- Salesforce
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP ERP
About Company
With over 60 years of financial coaching experience and over 175 offices around the world, First Command's Financial Advisors are proud to serve America's military.
