Enterprise Solutions Architect

The VGM Corporate IT department is a dynamic team dedicated to providing innovative technical solutions to a large enterprise organization. Our corporate team partners with all business units within VGM Group and its subsidiaries to provide valuable technology solutions at all levels of the organization.

Why this role matters

The Enterprise Solutions Architect is a strategic leader responsible for designing and governing the application landscape across all IT areas within VGM Group. This role ensures that applications are modern cloud-ready scalable and aligned with business goals. The architect will champion modern engineering practices including DevOps API-first design AI ready and cloud-native development while enabling business and IT leaders to make informed technological investment decisions. This role also provides architectural governance roadmaps and standards to ensure agility security and innovation across the enterprise.

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Reporting Accountability:VP of IT Delivery

Working Location:On-site at least four days per week in Waterloo Iowa

Work Hours Classification:Full-Time 40 hours per week

What youll do

• Provide overall direction guidance and definition of IT applications and technology solutions to effectively support the corporate business strategy
• Define and evolve the enterprise application architecture strategy with a focus on cloud adoption DevOps enablement and platform modernization.
• Partner with business and IT leaders to align technology solutions with strategic objectives and ensure the best technological investment and decision is made.
• Lead the design of scalable secure and resilient application ecosystems using microservices APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Guide the adoption of CI/CD pipelines infrastructure as code (IaC) and automated testing frameworks.
• Establish architectural standards patterns and governance processes to ensure consistency and compliance.
• Lead cross-functional architecture reviews and ensure alignment with enterprise goals.
• Assist in the mentorship and growth of our development teams fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Stay current with emerging and automation technologies and assess their potential impact on the business.
• Collaborate with security data and infrastructure teams to ensure holistic architectural decisions.
• Work on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains
• Promote the EA process outcomes and results to the organization and senior leadership
• Ensure recommendations are based on business relevance appropriate timing and deployment
• Work with senior leadership to approve allocation of budget to meet architectural initiatives critical to business/mission success
• Collaborate with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements
• Perform other duties and complete other projects as assigned

What will make you successful

Education and experience:

• 10 or more years of IT work experience including architecture design and deployment systems lifecycle management and infrastructure planning and operations
• Proven success and experience with Azure infrastructure SQL microservice solutions Snowflake or similar technologies
• Proven thought leader with 10 or more years of experience managing multiple large cross-functional projects and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders
• Bachelors degree in computer science information systems computer engineering system analysis or a related field or equivalent work experience
• Requires exposure to multiple diverse technologies and processing environments
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture business re-engineering principles and processes and basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting

Skills and competencies:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to present ideas in an understandable way for technical and non-technical team members

Physical requirements:

• Operation of office equipment and using technology efficiently such as computers phones misc. office equipment
• Visual abilities to include reading distance vision and peripheral vision
• Moving throughout the VGM facilities when needed
• Lifting and transporting moderately heavy objects such as computers devices and peripherals

Learn more about VGM Group Inc.:

Headquartered in Waterloo Iowa VGM is a 100% employee-owned company providing business and professional services to thousands of business customers across North America. Services include group purchasing commercial insurance management of healthcare services and networks in post-acute cases healthcare distribution direct to patient homes specialty consulting online education digital print and traditional marketing and more. VGM employs approximately 1700 people across 40 states and Canada with more than 1100 working in Iowa. VGM has been named the Top Workplace in Iowa on multiple occasions and is proud of its role in the communities in which it serves. For more information visit .

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