The Enterprise Architect is a business-minded technology leader within ETS responsible for defining the enterprise technology direction that enables Manhattan's business strategy and transformation priorities across multiple Internal departments - including Marketing, Sales, CXO, HR, R&D, and ETS.
This role works across internal business functions and ETS teams to understand strategic needs, identify enterprise technology implications, define target-state architectures, establish architectural principles and standards, and guide major technology decisions across platforms, applications, integrations, data, and infrastructure.
The Enterprise Architect should consistently ask: "How do we meet today's business need in a way that also makes Manhattan's technology ecosystem simpler, more reusable, and better positioned for the future?"
This is a pragmatic and technically credible role which. The Enterprise Architect is expected to actively participate in strategy, solutioning, architecture, and major transformation initiatives-not operate solely as a governance or documentation function.
Responsibilities- Define and evolve enterprise technology strategy, target architecture, and technology roadmaps aligned to Manhattan's business strategy.
- Establish and communicate architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, integration patterns, and reusable solution patterns.
- Define the strategic role, boundaries, and evolution of major enterprise platforms and technologies.
- Partner with Business Technology Leads and business stakeholders to translate business strategy and transformation priorities into enterprise technology capabilities and direction.
- Lead architecture, solutioning, and brainstorming sessions for complex cross-functional and cross-platform opportunities.
- Evaluate solution and technology alternatives based on business value, strategic fit, feasibility, cost, scalability, security, and long-term maintainability.
- Guide major initiatives and partner with Solution Architects to ensure designs align with enterprise architecture direction while enabling effective delivery.
- Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape, reduce technical debt, consolidate overlapping capabilities, and increase reuse.
- Perform targeted hands-on analysis, prototyping, and technical validation to evaluate emerging technologies, validate approaches, and reduce solution risk.
- Partner with Platform Owners, Cyber Security, Technology Operations, and Engineering to ensure architecture supports platform health, security, resilience, scalability, observability, and automation.
- Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and mentorship across onshore and offshore teams while continuously improving ETS architecture practices and decision-making.
Minimum requirements- 10+ years of progressive technology experience, including significant experience in solution and/or enterprise architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical and business stakeholders through complex solution decisions and tradeoffs.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing complex enterprise application, integration, and data architectures.
- Experience leading architecture and technology strategy across multiple business functions and platforms.
- Strong experience developing technology strategies, target architectures, roadmaps, standards, and reusable architecture patterns.
- Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams and mentoring technical staff.
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to influence across organizational boundaries without relying on direct authority.
- Demonstrated ability to balance long-term architectural direction with immediate business priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Preferred skills and experience- Proven track record supporting major enterprise transformation initiatives spanning functions such as Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Services, Finance, and Operations.
- Broad expertise across enterprise applications, cloud platforms, integration, APIs, event-driven architecture, data architecture, security, infrastructure, and modern software engineering.
- Experience creating prototypes or proofs of concept to validate strategic architecture decisions.
- Experience with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, Workday HR, Workday Financials, ServiceNow, MuleSoft, Power BI, SQL Server or comparable technologies.
- Experience with modern data and analytics technologies, including cloud data platforms, semantic models, analytics, and AI-enabled architectures.
- Understanding of modern CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, observability, and infrastructure/platform automation.
- Experience evaluating SaaS, cloud-native, commercial, and custom-built technology solutions.
- Familiarity with Agile and iterative delivery methodologies.
Characteristics of the Ideal Candidate- Business-minded - starts with the business outcome rather than the technology.
- Enterprise-oriented - optimizes for Manhattan rather than an individual platform or project.
- Technically credible - can engage deeply with architects and engineers when required.
- Hands-on when it matters - expected to prototype, analyze, and take on Solution Architecture responsibilities as needed
- Pragmatic - balances strategic direction with the realities of delivery.
- Influential - creates alignment across teams without creating unnecessary governance.
- Curious - continually evaluates better ways to solve enterprise problems.
- Simplification-oriented - looks for opportunities to reduce complexity and increase reuse.
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