The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and governing the enterprise technology strategy, architecture standards, and transformation roadmap across our environment.
This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical depth, requiring active engagement in architecture design, solution validation, and engineering execution. The ideal candidate has 15+ years of experience, including 2-3+ years operating specifically in an Enterprise Architect capacity, driving cloud-native transformation, modernization, and multi-cloud governance.
The Enterprise Architect ensures alignment between business strategy, regulatory requirements, and technology platforms-while enabling scalable, secure, and cost-optimized solutions across Azure, AWS, and enterprise SaaS ecosystems.
Key Accountabilities/Deliverables:- Enterprise Strategy & Architecture Governance
- Define and evolve enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, and reference architectures, patterns & practices for Cloud, Data, Security, Integration.
- Lead Community of Practice (CoP) and Architecture Review Board (ARB) and to enforce governance and guardrails across all major initiatives
- Develop multi-year cloud transformation and modernization roadmaps aligned to business strategy
- Hands-On Architecture & Solution Design
- Actively design and review solution architectures across cloud-native platforms
- Validate infrastructure and application designs using IaC (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, GitOps and automation frameworks
- Provide hands-on guidance to engineering & platform teams on performance, scalability, and resiliency patterns
- Cloud & Platform Engineering Enablement
- Drive adoption of Azure/AWS cloud-native services, platform engineering models, and reusable capabilities
- Establish standard patterns for API-driven integration, event-driven architectures, and domain-aligned services
- Enable engineering teams with reference implementations, templates, and accelerators
- Security, Compliance & Risk Management
- Ensure architecture aligns with regulatory requirements
- Embed Zero Trust, identity-first security, and data protection strategies into all architectures
- Partner with Security and Risk teams to mitigate systemic risks across platforms
- Cost Optimization & FinOps
- Define cloud cost optimization strategies (rightsizing, reserved capacity, tagging governance)
- Establish visibility through cost dashboards and FinOps practices
- Balance architectural decisions between performance, cost, and resilience
- Data & AI Readiness
- Standardize data integration patterns across core systems of record
- Provide guidance to data architecture ensuring alignment with governance platforms (e.g., data catalog, MDM, lineage)
- Collaborate on data strategies supporting analytics and machine learning initiatives
- Vendor & Technology Evaluation
- Lead strategic vendor evaluations (e.g., Azure vs AWS services, SaaS platforms)
- Influence contract decisions, architectural fit, and long-term platform sustainability
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and avoid vendor lock-in risks
Technical Knowledge and Understanding:- Cloud & Modern Architecture
- Deep expertise in Azure and/or AWS architectures (multi-region, high availability, DR/BCP design)
- Strong hands-on experience with: Containers (Azure Container Apps, AKS/EKS), Serverless (Azure Functions, AWS Lambda) and API Management and Application gateways.
- Engineering & Automation
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, or similar)
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, or similar)
- Observability and SRE practices (Datadog, App Insights, or similar)
- Platform engineering and developer experience optimization
- Security & Governance
- Identity & Access Management (Entra ID / AWS IAM)
- Zero Trust architecture
- Logging, monitoring, and compliance frameworks
- Data & Integration
- Enterprise data platforms (Fabric, data lakes, warehousing)
- Data governance (Purview or equivalent)
- API-first and event-driven integration patterns
Experience:- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in IT architecture, software engineering, or infrastructure engineering
- 2+ years of experience operating as an Enterprise Architect in a large-scale enterprise environment
- Proven experience driving cloud transformation and modernization initiatives across Azure/AWS ecosystems
- Demonstrated hands-on engineering experience-not limited to conceptual architecture
- Experience in regulated industries (Insurance/Financial Services preferred)
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At Core Specialty, you will receive a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development and advancement. We offer medical, dental, vision, and life insurances; short and long-term disability; a Company-match of 100% of a 6% contribution 401(k) plan; an Employee Assistance Plan; Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, Health Reimbursement Account, and a wellness program
