Enterprise Architect Director
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Job Location:
Charlotte, VT - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services including banking leasing securities credit cards and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFGs shares trade on the Tokyo Nagoya and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.
In the Americas SMBC Group has a presence in the US Canada Mexico Brazil Chile Colombia and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate institutional and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organizations extensive global network. The Groups operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC) SMBC Nikko Securities America Inc. SMBC Capital Markets Inc. SMBC MANUBANK JRI America Inc. SMBC Leasing and Finance Inc. Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A. and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co. Ltd.
Role Description
The Enterprise Architecture Lead is responsible for defining and governing enterprise-wide technology architecture standards that support business strategy scalability security and regulatory compliance. This role provides architectural direction across application data integration and infrastructure domains ensuring technology solutions are aligned with enterprise principles and long-term strategic position works closely with business leaders delivery teams and control functions to guide technology decisions assess architectural risk and promote consistent sustainable design across the organization.
Role Objectives
- Define and maintain enterprise architecture principles standards and reference architectures
- Provide architectural oversight and guidance for major technology initiatives and solution designs
- Evaluate proposed solutions for alignment with enterprise strategy technical standards and risk considerations
- Partner with business engineering security and infrastructure teams to translate business needs into architectural directionIdentify architectural gaps technical debt and risk areas and recommend remediation strategies
- Support governance and review forums by presenting architecture assessments trade-offs and recommendations
- Promote standardization and reuse across platforms applications and integration patterns
- Contribute to multi-year technology roadmaps aligned to business priorities and enterprise strategy
- Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to inform architectural evolution and investment decisions
Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent experience
- 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture solution architecture or large-scale technology delivery
- Broad understanding of application architecture data architecture integration patterns and cloud technologies
- Experience operating in complex regulated environments with strong governance and control requirements
- Proven ability to assess architectural trade-offs across cost risk scalability and time-to-market
- Strong communication skills with experience influencing senior technology and business stakeholders
Preferred
- Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and governance models
- Experience supporting large multi-region technology portfolios
- Background in modernization cloud adoption or large-scale platform transformation initiatives
Additional Requirements
SMBCs employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home as well as from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles including for example certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.
SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal state and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process please let us know at
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- SAP BusinessObjects
- Enterprise Architecture
- Hybris
- SAP HANA
- SAP
- TOGAF
- Solution Architecture
- Cloud Architecture
- SAP BW 4HANA
- Salesforce
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP ERP
