The Enterprise Architect (EA) is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise‑wide technology architecture to enable business strategy, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance. This role provides architecture leadership across applications, data, integration, cloud, and AI platforms, ensuring coherent, future‑proof decisions across the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect acts as a strategic advisor to business and IT leaders, partners with Solution and Platform Architects, and serves as a key decision maker in architecture governance forums.
This position reports to the Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) Leader and is part of Infrastructure and Operations team located in Sunnyvale, CA and will be an on-site role.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
EA Strategy & Value Realization: Develops the EA charter and services, promoting the value proposition and tracking outcome-driven metrics aligned with enterprise goals and Chief Information Officer priorities.
Portfolio Optimization & Rationalization: Leads current-state analysis to detect gaps, recommend investments, and rationalize the technology portfolio using models like TIME to reduce technical debt.
Standards & Delivery Alignment: Defines enterprise architecture principles and target-state roadmaps across key domains (Cloud, AI, Data, Security) while collaborating with delivery teams to ensure reuse and speed to market.
Governance & Guardrails: Leads architecture governance and design reviews for major initiatives, ensuring scalability and compliance with security, privacy, and AI agent lifecycle decision boundaries.
Strategic Partnership & Advisory: Partners with business and IT leaders to shape technology demand, guide build-vs-buy decisions, and communicate architectural trade-offs regarding cost, risk, and complexity.
The essential requirements of the job include:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
10+ years of experience in enterprise architect role.
Ability to balance the long-term and short-term implications of individual decisions and organizational goals.
Ability to influence without authority and communicate effectively with executive, business, and technical stakeholders.
Understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, such as generative AI and its applications.
Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
Enterprise architecture frameworks and modeling (TOGAF, ArchiMate, UML, capability and process modeling).
Designing systems with security, privacy, and compliance in mind includes identity and access management, encryption, secure architecture, and operating within regulated environments.
Experience in EA tools like SAP LeanIX
Cepheid, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at .
The annual salary range OR the hourly range for this role is $190,000 - $220,000 USD. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.
This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay. #L1-WT1
We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
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