Enterprise Architect

Overview

Salary: $140,000 - $190,000 based on experience and credentials

Location Type: Hybrid, a flexible work model blending in-office and remote working

Position Type: Full Time

The Enterprise Architect translates business strategy into an integrated enterprise technology direction. This role defines and governs the target architecture across business capabilities, applications, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, identity, cybersecurity, and resilience. The Enterprise Architect reduces complexity and technical debt, guides major technology investments, and ensures that project and vendor decisions advance the organization toward a coherent, secure, resilient, and cost-effective target state. Success requires influence across business and technology leadership, practical governance, and measurable progress in modernization, platform reuse, risk reduction, and system retirement. This is an enterprise decision-making role, not solely a documentation or solution-design position.

Responsibilities
• Partner with executive, business, and technology leaders to translate strategic priorities, growth objectives, operating-model changes, regulatory obligations, and member or customer needs into enterprise capabilities and technology roadmaps
• Assess gaps between the current environment and the required future state, including business, operating, data, application, security, integration, and infrastructure impacts
• Provide clear architectural recommendations, tradeoffs, dependencies, sequencing, costs, risks, and decision points for leadership
• Develop and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state architecture across business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, identity, security, and resilience domains
• Maintain business-capability maps, application and technology inventories, integration and data-flow maps, reference architectures, and technology lifecycle standards
• Ensure architecture artifacts remain actionable, understandable, and connected to funded initiatives and business outcomes
• Define architecture principles, approved platforms, reusable patterns, integration methods, data standards, security guardrails, and cloud practices
• Lead or support the Architecture Review Board and establish architecture review requirements for material technology changes and enterprise-impacting initiatives
• Review major initiatives, solution designs, vendor selections, and exceptions for alignment with enterprise strategy and standards
• Document architectural decisions, risks, exceptions, remediation commitments, accountable owners, and expiration dates
• Create and coordinate multi-year modernization roadmaps across business portfolios, delivery teams, technology domains, and major vendors, sequencing investments based on business value, risk, dependencies, funding, and organizational capacity
• Identify redundant, obsolete, unsupported, or overly complex technologies, applications, capabilities, integrations, and data, and establish consolidation, remediation, or retirement plans.
• Promote reuse, standardization, platform consolidation, API enablement, and disciplined decommissioning
• Maintain an enterprise technical-debt register and provide transparent risk and investment recommendations to leadership
• Define enterprise patterns for APIs, events, messaging, batch processing, data exchange, and third-party connectivity to ensure systems exchange information securely, reliably, consistently in accordance with enterprise data-governance requirements
• Partner with data leaders to align architecture with authoritative data sources, metadata, lineage, quality, privacy, and analytics objectives
• Evaluate build, buy, partner, and retire options and provide architecture input to portfolio prioritization and budgeting
• Assess proposed solutions for strategic fit, scalability, interoperability, security, resilience, implementation risk, total cost of ownership, vendor concentration, and exit strategy
• Participate in requests for proposal, due diligence, contract reviews, proofs of concept, and major technology negotiations as appropriate
• Ensure privacy, cybersecurity, identity, availability, disaster recovery, records retention, accessibility, and regulatory requirements are incorporated into architecture decisions
• Partner with cybersecurity, risk, legal, compliance, audit, and business continuity teams to identify and mitigate architectural risk
• Escalate designs or exceptions that create unacceptable operational, security, compliance, financial, or reputational exposure
• Coordinate solution, application, data, integration, security, infrastructure, cloud, and domain architects to resolve cross-domain issues
• Coach delivery teams and architects on enterprise patterns while enabling appropriate speed and autonomy
• Evaluate emerging technologies through structured research, experimentation, and value-and-risk assessments; recommend adoption, containment, or avoidance
• Approve designs that conform to established standards and delegated governance authority
• Reject or escalate designs that create unacceptable enterprise risk, duplication, complexity, or misalignment
• Grant time-bound exceptions within delegated authority when the business rationale, risk owner, compensating controls, remediation plan, and expiration date are documented
• Recommend platform consolidation, investment sequencing, vendor changes, and system retirement.
• Final funding and formal risk-acceptance authority remain with the designated executive or governance body
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of current trends, laws, and issues affecting the area of expertise
• Attend educational events to increase professional knowledge
• Complete annual compliance and info security training to understand employees' role in maintaining effective compliance and security programs

Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, business, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience, Master's degree in technology, business administration, or a related discipline preferred
• 10 or more years of progressive technology experience, including significant responsibility for enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, or large-scale transformation
• Demonstrated experience developing target architectures and multi-year roadmaps in a complex, regulated, or highly integrated enterprise environment
• Strong knowledge of application architecture, integration, APIs, data platforms, cloud, infrastructure, identity, cybersecurity, resilience, and technology lifecycle management
• Experience governing major solution and vendor decisions using business value, risk, cost, scalability, and operational sustainability criteria
• Ability to communicate complex technical decisions in clear business terms and influence executives, business leaders, engineers, delivery teams, and vendors without relying solely on positional authority
• Strong analytical, facilitation, conflict-resolution, and written communication skills
• Experience in financial services, banking, credit unions, insurance, healthcare, or another regulated industry preferred
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks and practices such as TOGAF, capability-based planning, domain-driven design, architecture decision records, and technology portfolio management preferred
• Relevant certifications in enterprise architecture, cloud, cybersecurity, data, or technology governance preferred
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, core-platform modernization, cloud transformation, data modernization, or enterprise integration programs preferred
• Ability to prioritize tasks by effectively managing competing and changing priorities to meet deadlines
• Accurate, detail-oriented, and organized with task management
• Ability to analyze and resolve difficult and often complex problems or situations
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills to interact effectively with members, staff, vendors, and government regulators
• Strong knowledge and understanding of credit union products, services, policies, and procedures
• Strong knowledge and understanding of regulatory compliance
• Strong knowledge and understanding of credit union computer systems and software applications required to perform job duties

Benefits

• Financial Well-Being: Bonus Program up to 12%, 401K Matching up to 8%, Retirement Planning, Pay Increases based on Competency, Employee Loan Discounts, Flex Spending Accounts
• Wellness: Medical Coverage, Dental and Vision Coverage, Access to 4,000+ Gyms, Mental Health Resources, PTO Wellness Days, Short Term and Long Term Disability Coverage
• Work-Life Balance: 11 Paid Holidays, 3 weeks of Paid Time Off, 4 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Birthday PTO
• Community Involvement: Paid Volunteer Hours
• Growth: Degree Assistance up to $5,000 per year

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