About The Role:As a CBRE Vice President, Global Enterprise Architecture, you will lead a team of architects, collaborate with senior business and D&T stakeholders, champion modern architectural approaches and principles, and ensure that our technology platforms enable world-class digital products and services. This position requires a strategic thinker with a passion for solving sophisticated problems, strong leadership capabilities, and the ability to influence and drive change across a global organization.
The Digital & Technology team at CBRE is a forward thinking and innovative function at the forefront of digital transformation & acceleration programs. VP, Enterprise Architecture is a strategic leadership role responsible for defining and guiding the technology target state for CBRE. The leader will align technology strategy with business objectives, driving digital transformation, fostering innovation, and ensuring a robust, scalable, and secure enterprise architecture. The role demands "hands on" deep expertise in architecture, data, AI/ML, platform and cloud solutions, combined with exceptional leadership and people management skills.
What You'll Do:- Develop and lead the execution of the enterprise-wide technology vision, strategy, and roadmap, aligning with CBRE's business goals and driving digital transformation.
- Establish and cultivate an agile architecture community of practice to work across multi-functional teams, promoting a collaborative culture and defining KPIs and metrics to continually measure its success.
- Serve as the chief architectural advisor to senior leadership; collaborate effectively with business and technology leaders to prioritize architectural improvements, ensure strategic alignment, and define technology investment plans.
- Supervise the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies and platforms.
- Drive the evolution of existing systems towards future-state architectures, ensuring the creation, validation and promotion of reusable assets at various stages of the application/data lifecycle.
- Establish and maintain enterprise architectural standards and governance processes, actively promoting them to ensure consistency, quality, and strategic alignment across all initiatives.
- Lead application rationalization initiatives to optimize the portfolio, improve efficiency, and reduce duplication.
- Drive adoption of advanced technologies, particularly AI/ML-based solutions and associated data platforms, finding opportunities for automation and AI-driven enhancements.
What You'll Need:To perform this job successfully, an individual will need to perform each crucial duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field. A Master's degree is highly preferred.
- Over 15 years of experience in enterprise architecture or related leadership roles is highly desirable, with at least 5-7 years in enterprise architecture leadership demonstrating significant experience in guiding complex, global organizations.
- Proven track record of leading large-scale technology transformations and modernizing enterprise platforms in a dynamic environment.
- Extensive experience in defining and implementing enterprise architecture strategies, modern cloud architectures (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS), data analytics, AI/ML platforms, and enterprise integrations.
- Strong business acumen with a track record of aligning technology strategy with business goals and influencing diverse stakeholder groups.
- Prior domain knowledge in Commercial Real Estate (CRE) is highly valued.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- An excellent technical and functional understanding for creating customer-focused technology solutions and driving business outcomes.
- Exceptional communication (written, verbal, and presentation) and interpersonal skills, capable of articulating strategic visions and complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including executive leadership.
- Demonstrable ability to lead and inspire teams, spearhead large-scale digital transformation, and effectively manage complex global programs.
- Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities, combined with a proactive approach.
- Deep knowledge of agile methodologies and a demonstrated ability to rapidly learn, evaluate, and apply emerging technologies to solve critical business problems.
- Requires in-depth knowledge of financial terms and principles to manage budgets, conduct cost-benefit analyses, and contribute to financial planning for technology investments.
- Ability to conduct financial/business analysis, including the preparation of reports and robust business cases for strategic technology initiatives.
- This position has formal supervisory responsibilities. The Vice President will lead and develop high-performing teams, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include identifying training needs, supervising performance, coaching, and motivating the team.
