Enterprise Architect Position:
The Enterprise Architect will play a pivotal role in shaping the company's IT strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives. This individual will be responsible for developing and maintaining enterprise architecture strategies, establishing architectural frameworks, and evaluating technologies to enhance business capabilities.
Main Responsibilities:
* Develop and maintain enterprise architecture strategies that align with business objectives
* Establish architectural frameworks, standards, and guidelines to support IT initiatives
* Evaluate and recommend enterprise technologies, platforms, and solutions to enhance business capabilities
* Collaborate with business stakeholders, IT teams, and external vendors to ensure architectural best practices are followed
* Support digital transformation efforts by identifying and promoting emerging technologies that drive business value
* Design and oversee the integration of enterprise applications, data, and infrastructure for improved interoperability and efficiency
* Contribute to architecture governance processes, ensuring compliance with security, regulatory, and operational standards
* Participate in architectural reviews, ensuring consistency and adherence to enterprise architecture principles
* Assess technology risks and develop mitigation strategies to enhance system resilience
* Develop and maintain IT roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business strategies and enterprise capabilities
* Contribute to cost optimization strategies by standardizing and streamlining technology solutions
* Establish metrics and KPIs to measure the effectiveness of enterprise architecture initiatives
Required Qualifications:
* Bachelor's Degree or relevant experience in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business, or related field
* Typically minimum 6 years of relevant experience
* Four-year college degree and 6 or more years of professional experience, or high school diploma with 8 or more years of professional experience
Desired Skills and Abilities:
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address enterprise-wide challenges
* Excellent communication and presentation skills to engage stakeholders at all levels
* Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business terms for executive audiences
* Expertise in cloud technologies, microservices architecture, API strategies, and enterprise integration patterns
* Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing business needs
* Wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways
* Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
Work Environment:
* May coordinate activities of other personnel (Team Lead)
* Requires working knowledge of IBM M/F Sys & Hardware Platform and IT Tools
Equal Opportunity Employer:
We are an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.