Principal Enterprise Architect

About this role

The   Principal Enterprise Architect is a senior architecture leader responsible for shaping, guiding, and advancing enterprise architecture across the organization. Reporting to the   Head of Enterprise Architecture   and Engineering Enablement , this role translates enterprise strategy into practical architecture direction, standards, target-state designs, and transition roadmaps across business capabilities, applications, platforms, data, integration, cloud, security, and emerging technology domains.   While architecture is foundation al,   the Principal Enterprise Architect will   be responsible for   design ing   enterprise solutions in close collaboration with the business and technology stakeholders .     Where   applicable   the role will be accountable   to   build   solutions that scale for the enterprise.    

This position plays a critical role in connecting enterprise strategy to federated execution. The   Principal Enterprise Architect partners with architecture, engineering, platform, security, data, and business technology leaders to ensure material technology decisions align with enterprise standards, target-state architecture, modernization priorities, and governance requirements.  

The role requires strong strategic thinking,   architecture   breadth, executive communication, and the ability to influence across a large, complex, and federated enterprise environment.  

The Principal Enterprise Architect provides architecture leadership and recommendations on material technology decisions and has delegated authority within the enterprise architecture operating model as assigned by the Head of Enterprise Architecture. The role is expected to escalate decisions with enterprise-wide impact, non-standard exceptions, or significant risk implications.  

Key Responsibilities:  

Enterprise Architecture Leadership  

• 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.  

• 1 2 + 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,

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