Position SummaryThe Enterprise Architect aligns FTJ's technology investments, applications, platforms, data, integrations, and cloud services with business strategy. This position serves as a trusted advisor to business and IT leadership, establishing the future-state technology roadmap and guiding decisions to modernize the technology portfolio, reduce technical debt, control cost, and manage risk.
Key ResponsibilitiesTechnology Strategy and Roadmaps- Develop and maintain FTJ's enterprise technology strategy and three-to-five-year roadmap.
- Translate business priorities into actionable technology, modernization, and investment plans.
- Evaluate technology trends and recommend opportunities that improve business value, efficiency, customer experience, or risk management.
- Advise leadership on technology investments, platform direction, and future-state capabilities.
Application Portfolio and Technical Debt- Establish and maintain the enterprise application portfolio as FTJ's authoritative system of record.
- Document application ownership, business value, cost, lifecycle, dependencies, criticality, supportability, and risk.
- Lead application rationalization to identify opportunities to invest, modernize, migrate, consolidate, replace, tolerate, or retire.
- Develop application health and technical debt scorecards that support investment prioritization.
- Identify unsupported technologies, key-person dependencies, and other operational risks requiring remediation.
Architecture and Technology Governance- Establish practical architecture principles, standards, reference patterns, and decision frameworks.
- Review major technology investments, application acquisitions, integrations, cloud services, and modernization initiatives.
- Promote consistency across applications, platforms, data, integrations, security controls, and cloud environments.
- Partner with Application Development, Infrastructure and IT Operations, Security, PMO, data teams, business leaders, and vendors to connect strategy with execution.
Cloud, Data, Integration, and Innovation- Define strategic direction for Azure, application hosting, enterprise data, APIs, integrations, and platform selection.
- Support cloud governance focused on cost, security, resilience, supportability, and architectural consistency.
- Evaluate AI, automation, analytics, and emerging technologies through controlled, business-justified initiatives.
- Balance innovation with operational readiness, risk, cost, and long-term sustainability.
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Ten or more years of progressive IT experience, including five or more years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, or IT leadership.
- Demonstrated experience with technology roadmaps, application portfolio management, modernization, technical debt, and architecture governance.
- Strong understanding of enterprise applications, Azure or comparable cloud platforms, data architecture, integration patterns, and security principles.
- Ability to influence decisions and communicate effectively with executives, business leaders, technical teams, and vendors.
- Insurance, financial services, employee benefits, or other regulated-industry experience preferred.
- Familiarity with TOGAF or similar architecture practices preferred, with an emphasis on pragmatic application rather than process overhead.
Measures of Success- A complete application portfolio with defined ownership, lifecycle, cost, dependency, and risk information.
- An approved enterprise technology roadmap aligned with FTJ's business priorities.
- Actionable application health, technical debt, and lifecycle reporting.
- Measurable progress in application rationalization and legacy modernization.
- Reduced redundancy, unsupported technology, operational complexity, and concentrated knowledge risk.
- More consistent, transparent, and cost-conscious technology investment decisions.
We offer comprehensive benefits to full-time employees including company-paid medical, STD, LTD and life insurance plus voluntary dental, vision, life/AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company matching, generous paid time off and much more.
