Enterprise Architect

Technology Services team is integral to maintaining the Firms overall technology mobile and desktop devices and core infrastructure to ensure reliable secure and efficient operations. Technology Services is a single global operation with representation in each of the Firms offices. Additionally we have shared service centers in Tampa and Manila supporting a wide range of technologies and addition to overseeing critical enterprise systems and providing world-class client service to our global user community we are committed to achieving a balance between new and innovative technologies while constantly ensuring data security and compliance with legal and regulatory standards resulting in realizing value from the latest developments in technology such as generative artificial intelligence and cloud computing models while safeguarding sensitive client information against cyber threats and other business interruption events. Technology Services plays a significant role in supporting the Firms systems and people.

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for aligning business strategy processes data applications and technology to support the organizations strategic objectives. This role serves as a key advisor and governance partner to business and technology stakeholders ensuring that new initiatives systems and solutions are architected in a way that promotes business value minimizes risk maximizes reuse and supports long-term enterprise goals.

The Enterprise Architect leads solution and integration design activities validates technology demands oversees information and data architecture practices and collaborates with governance teams to ensure data quality lineage compliance and architectural consistency across the enterprise. The role also plays a critical part in evaluating emerging technologies vendor solutions business roadmaps and AI-related capabilities to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and future-state architecture.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture standards principles and target-state architectures

• Align technology investments business capabilities processes and data assets with organizational objectives

• Partner with business and technology leaders to develop strategic roadmaps and architectural direction

• Maintain enterprise-wide visibility of applications technologies processes integrations and data assets

Demand Evaluation & Governance

• Evaluate new business and technology demands to confirm strategic alignment and eliminate duplication of capabilities or solutions.

• Participate in governance processes to ensure initiatives comply with enterprise standards policies and architectural principles.

• Provide architectural reviews and recommendations throughout project lifecycles

• Support PMO and governance activities through defined work breakdown structures controls and accountability models

Solution Architecture

• Design and review enterprise solutions that address both current and future business requirements.

• Ensure solutions adequately represent stakeholder needs operational requirements scalability resiliency security and maintainability.

Integration Architecture

• Lead integration architecture and interface design activities across enterprise systems.

• Create integration specifications that reduce implementation risk and encourage reuse of existing services and capabilities.

• Maintain and evolve the enterprise integration repository and interface inventory.

• Define data flows interfaces and integration patterns supporting enterprise interoperability.

Information & Data Architecture

• Establish and maintain information architecture standards and data models.

• Ensure consistent use of enterprise data definitions business rules and governance policies.

• Support conceptual and logical data modeling activities.

• Define and govern data mappings lineage and system-to-system information flows.

• Collaborate with Data Governance and Information Governance teams to improve data quality ownership transparency and compliance.

Architecture Repository Management

• Maintain enterprise architecture repositories documenting systems applications technologies integrations processes ownership and dependencies.

• Track technology lifecycles including systems in planning development active use deprecation and retirement.

• Document critical application attributes ownership classifications vendor information technical debt service dependencies and architectural relationships.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with business leaders product owners project teams developers data governance teams and vendors.

• Communicate architectural decisions standards and recommendations effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Facilitate architecture reviews workshops and design sessions.

• Provide thought leadership regarding emerging technologies business capabilities and AI-driven opportunities.

• Assess solution feasibility and recommend appropriate architectural approaches.

• Review and challenge vendor-provided architectures and designs to identify risks gaps and required mitigations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering Business Technology or a related field.

• Minimum 710 years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture solution architecture systems architecture or related technology leadership roles.

• Demonstrated experience with enterprise applications systems integration data architecture and solution design.

• Strong understanding of business capability modeling application architecture information architecture and enterprise technology governance.

• Experience developing architecture artifacts roadmaps conceptual models and integration specifications.

• Knowledge of data governance data lineage metadata management and information management practices.

• Experience evaluating vendor technologies and conducting architectural due diligence.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms APIs microservices enterprise integrations and modern application architectures.

• Professional certifications such as TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect Azure Solutions Architect or comparable certifications are preferred.

The New York and Washington DC hiring range is $133600 - $$200400.

This role reports to

Senior Manager Enterprise Architecture

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The above is only a general description of the essential duties associated with this position and does not represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties.

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