Role Overview :

We are seeking a strategic Enterprise Architect to define and govern the organization's enterprise-wide technology vision, architecture principles, and transformation roadmap.

The successful candidate will align business strategy with technology investments, drive modernization across applications and infrastructure, establish architecture governance, and ensure that technology capabilities support long-term business growth, agility, security, and operational resilience.

Key Responsibilities :

- Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, and target-state architecture.

- Translate business strategy into technology roadmaps, architecture capabilities, and transformation initiatives.

- Develop enterprise-wide views of business architecture, application architecture, data architecture, integration architecture, and technology infrastructure.

- Assess the current technology landscape and identify opportunities for simplification, consolidation, modernization, and rationalization.

- Establish architecture governance frameworks, review processes, design authorities, and technology decision-making mechanisms.

- Drive enterprise cloud strategy across public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments where appropriate.

- Define enterprise integration strategies across applications, APIs, data platforms, and external ecosystems.

- Partner with business leaders to understand strategic priorities, operational challenges, and future capability requirements.

- Evaluate technology investments, vendor platforms, build-versus-buy decisions, and total cost of ownership.

- Establish technology standards covering interoperability, scalability, resilience, security, data protection, and compliance.

- Guide enterprise-wide application modernization, legacy transformation, platform consolidation, and technical debt reduction.

- Collaborate with security, data, infrastructure, application, and solution architects to ensure architectural consistency.

- Ensure alignment between enterprise architecture and cybersecurity, regulatory, risk management, and business continuity requirements.

- Define architecture metrics and maturity assessments to measure the effectiveness of enterprise technology initiatives.

- Advise senior executives and technology leadership on emerging technologies, technology risks, and long-term investment priorities.

- Lead architecture communities of practice and mentor solution, domain, and technical architects.

- Support major transformation programs, mergers and acquisitions, and technology integration initiatives where applicable.

Required Skills and Qualifications :

- 17 - 25 years of experience in enterprise IT, technology leadership, architecture, and large-scale transformation.

- Proven experience defining enterprise architecture strategies and multi-year technology roadmaps.

- Strong understanding of business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security architecture.

- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or comparable methodologies.

- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, distributed systems, API management, integration patterns, and enterprise platforms.

- Experience in application portfolio management, technology rationalization, legacy modernization, and technical debt management.

- Understanding of cybersecurity, identity management, regulatory compliance, resilience, and enterprise risk.

- Experience with technology budgeting, vendor evaluation, platform selection, and strategic investment planning.

- Ability to communicate architecture decisions and business value to C-suite executives and cross-functional stakeholders.

- Experience leading architecture governance across multiple business units and technology teams.

- Strong analytical, strategic planning, negotiation, and leadership capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications :

- TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture credentials.

- Experience in large, complex, multinational, or regulated organizations.

- Exposure to business capability modeling, architecture repositories, and enterprise architecture tools.

- Experience leading enterprise-wide cloud adoption and digital transformation programs.

Key Competencies :

- Enterprise technology strategy, business-technology alignment, architecture governance, transformation leadership, risk management, and executive stakeholder engagement.