Enterprise Architect

• Support the definition, maintenance, and communication of enterprise architecture principles, standards, guidelines, reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Develop and maintain current-state, target-state, and transition-state architecture views across assigned business or technology domains.
• Assist in creating and maintaining enterprise architecture assets, including capability maps, application maps, technology roadmaps, integration diagrams, conceptual data models, infrastructure views, and architecture decision records.
• Partner with business stakeholders and technology teams to understand business capabilities, processes, requirements, pain points, and strategic objectives.
• Participate in solution architecture reviews to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, data standards, integration patterns, and approved technologies.
• Support Architecture Review Board, Technology Innovation Review, Engineering Review, and other architecture governance forums.
• Review project and product designs for compliance with enterprise architecture standards, patterns, and technology guardrails.
• Identify architecture gaps, redundant capabilities, technical debt, technology risks, and opportunities for reuse or modernization.
• Support application portfolio management by helping assess application health, lifecycle status, business criticality, cost, usage, duplication, risk, and modernization needs.
• Assist in developing technology roadmaps that align current-state technology capabilities to target-state architecture direction.
• Evaluate vendor solutions, platforms, emerging technologies, and architecture patterns under the guidance of senior architecture resources.
• Support proof of concept and minimum viable product activities to assess new technologies and determine potential business value.
• Maintain accurate architecture information in enterprise architecture tools and repositories.
• Promote standardization, reuse, interoperability, scalability, resiliency, security, and operational supportability in solution designs.
• Collaborate with solution architects, domain architects, platform architects, cybersecurity architects, data architects, infrastructure architects, and engineering teams.
• Contribute to architecture documentation standards and ensure architecture artifacts are clear, complete, and usable.
• Support the development and communication of enterprise technology standards and approved technology catalogs.
• Assist in standards exception reviews by documenting risks, rationale, mitigation plans, and recommended next steps.
• Participate in business capability planning, technology investment discussions, and portfolio planning activities.
• Communicate architecture recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear and practical manner.
• Contribute to the Architecture Community of Practice by sharing lessons learned, best practices, reusable patterns, and industry trends.
• Stay current with technology trends, architecture practices, regulatory considerations, and industry developments relevant to the enterprise.

EDUCATION DESCRIPTION:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Technology, Data Analytics, or a related field from an accredited college or university.