Executive Director, Enterprise Architecture

The Executive Director Enterprise Architecture is a senior architecture leadership role accountable for shaping and advancing the enterprise technology blueprint that enables scale resilience modernization and business growth across the organization. This leader guides the Enterprise Architecture (EA) function as a strategic business partner helps define Fortreawide architecture strategy and standards and ensures technology decisions across domains align with business objectives regulatory obligations and longterm vision.

The role serves as a key 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 technology components operate cohesively and efficiently driving a consistent secure scalable and costeffective technology ecosystem for Fortrea.

Summary of Responsibilities:

Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Leadership

• Contribute to and maintain Fortreas multiyear (35 year) enterprise architecture vision strategy and reference models across infrastructure cloud data integration cybersecurity workplace and applications and support alignment with Fortreas capital investment portfolio.

• 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.

Standards Guardrails & Technology Governance

• Support the development publication and maintenance of 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.

Architecture Review Board (ARB) Leadership

• Lead or facilitate the Architecture Review Board (ARB) and serve as a key 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.

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.

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.

Executive Advisory & Stakeholder Leadership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior technology leaders on enterprise technology strategy architectural risks capital investment decisions 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 senior leadership reviews portfolio governance discussions and selected partner and vendor forums.

Leadership of the Enterprise Architecture Organization

• Lead develop and mentor an Enterprise Architecture team spanning enterprise solution domain and security architecture competencies and help shape talent development and capability plans for the function.

• 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.

Qualifications (Minimum Required):

• Bachelors degree in computer science information technology engineering or a related field. Equivalent and relevant experience may also be considered.

Experience (Minimum Required):

• At least 12 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture or a related field including progressive leadership experience.

• Demonstrated senior leadership and management experience in IT strategy and enterprise architecture including leading architecture teams and advising senior business and technology stakeholders.

• Extensive experience in implementing enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF.

• Established track record of successfully implementing complex technology initiatives and architecture roadmaps 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.

Preferred Qualifications Include:

• Masters degree in computer science information technology engineering or a related field.

• Certification in Enterprise Architecture framework such as TOGAF.

• Experience in a Clinical Research Organization or healthcare-related industry.

• Knowledge and understanding of advanced computing platforms common in healthcare industry.

• Hands-on experience with emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (ML) would be a plus.

Physical Demands / Work Environment:

Work Environment:

• Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.

• Occasional drives to site locations with occasional travel both domestic and international.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to sit for extended periods and operate a vehicle safely.

• Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast simple repeated movements of the fingers hands and wrists.

• Occasional crouching stooping with frequent bending and twisting of upper body and neck.

• Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.

• Light to moderate lifting and carrying or moving of objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs.

• Regular and consistent attendance.

• Varied hours may be required.

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