• Support the Head of Enterprise Architecture in developing and evolving enterprise architecture strategy, principles, standards, and target-state roadmaps. 

• Define and maintain architecture perspectives across business, application, data, integration, cloud, platform, security, and AI-related capabilities as applicable. 

• Own enterprise standards, target state, governance, exceptions, material technology decision frameworks 

• Translate enterprise strategy and target-state direction into practical guidance for domain architecture and engineering teams. 

• Promote alignment across business units, shared services, and technology domains. 

Strategic Architecture and Transformation 

• Provide architecture leadership for major strategic initiatives, modernization programs, and enterprise-impacting technology decisions. 

• Assess architecture options and recommend solutions that balance business value, cost, risk, resilience, time to market, and long-term maintainability. 

• Support enterprise transformation through simplification, rationalization, modernization, and platform reuse. 

• Identify opportunities to reduce duplication, retire legacy complexity, and improve interoperability across the enterprise. 

Governance and Decision Support 

• Participate in and support enterprise architecture governance, standards councils, review boards, and strategic decision forums. 

• Evaluate material technology decisions using approved enterprise frameworks, including buy, build, reuse, partner, and retire options. 

• Review architecture proposals for compliance with enterprise standards, target-state architecture, and risk requirements. 

• Support management of architecture exceptions, including rationale, risk analysis, remediation paths, and time-bound approvals. 

• Available for production incidents with major impact to business operations 

Cross-Functional Partnership 

• Partner with federated domain architects, platform leaders, engineering teams, data and AI teams, security, infrastructure, and business technology leaders to drive alignment. 

• Facilitate resolution of cross-domain design issues, architecture conflicts, and overlapping capability decisions. 

• Act as a trusted advisor to leaders across technology and business-aligned delivery organizations. 

• Ensure architecture direction is understood and applied consistently across federated teams. 

• Works with Business Unit heads and principal solution architects to translate enterprise direction into federated execution. 

Risk, Security, and Resilience 

• Incorporate cybersecurity, privacy, resilience, recoverability, and regulatory considerations into architecture guidance and recommendations. 

• Partner with risk, security, and compliance stakeholders to ensure technology decisions align with enterprise control requirements. 

• Assess the operational and architectural implications of technology choices in regulated and high-availability environments. 

Talent and Capability Development 

• Mentor and coach architects and senior technology professionals. 

• Contribute to architecture capability development, communities of practice, and architecture operating model maturity. 

• Support common role expectations, competency models, and quality standards across the architecture function. 

• Promote enterprise-first thinking, sound decision-making, and strong architecture discipline. 

You Have: 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field. 

• 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, domain architecture, or senior technology strategy roles. 

• Deep cross-domain expertise spanning applications, integration, data, AI, cloud, security, and platform strategy. 

• Experience supporting or leading architecture for large-scale transformation initiatives in complex enterprise environments. 

• Experience with architecture governance, standards development, target-state planning, and strategic technology decision-making. 

• Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority. 

• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills. 

Preferred Education and Experience 

• Experience in insurance, financial services, healthcare, or another highly regulated industry. 

• Experience in a federated technology organization with centralized architecture direction and distributed execution. 

• Experience with cloud modernization, API strategies, platform engineering, data ecosystems, and enterprise integration. 

• Familiarity with AI-enabled enterprise capabilities, automation, and emerging technology trends. 

• Advanced degree and/or relevant certifications such as TOGAF, SAFe, AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 

• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, methods, and governance practices. 

• Broad understanding of enterprise technology domains and cross-domain dependencies. 

• Ability to develop target-state architecture and pragmatic transition approaches. 

• Strong business acumen and ability to connect architecture decisions to business outcomes. 

• Ability to assess tradeoffs among speed, cost, quality, risk, and strategic fit. 

• Strong facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills. 

• Ability to communicate effectively with executive, business, and technical audiences. 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities. 

• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and lead through influence.