Enterprise Architecture Governance Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Assess the current and target-state architectures to ensure alignment with strategic technological goals.

• Examine application architectures, system interfaces, APIs, data flows, and infrastructure dependencies.

• Engage in architecture evaluations and solution design discussions.

• Create and maintain mappings of business capabilities, diagrams of solution context, process flows, and system interaction models.

• Evaluate the technical implications of proposed changes across applications, platforms, integrations, and business processes.

• Ensure that initiatives comply with technology standards, architectural principles, security requirements, and risk frameworks.

• Identify and address technology-related risks in collaboration with Technology Risk, Information Security, Compliance, and Audit teams.

• Review controls and suggest improvements in governance and operations.

• Assist governance forums and decision-making bodies with analyses, recommendations, and reporting.

• Establish and uphold governance standards, policies, and best practices.

• Measure and report on the effectiveness of governance using metrics and KPIs.

• Evaluate architectural risks such as application obsolescence, integration complexity, infrastructure dependencies, security vulnerabilities, and operational resilience.

• Provide guidance to business and technology stakeholders regarding enterprise systems, processes, and capabilities.

• Identify opportunities to enhance operational efficiency, user experience, process automation, and data quality.

• Coordinate with stakeholders to address complex issues and implement improvements.

• Lead the evaluation of intricate business and technology challenges and develop sustainable solutions.

• Oversee end-to-end solution delivery with both internal and external resources.

• Facilitate decision-making among stakeholders with competing priorities.

• Develop business cases, implementation roadmaps, and success metrics.

• Analyze performance data to uncover trends, risks, opportunities, and areas for improvement.

• Define and maintain metrics, KPIs, Power BI dashboards, and reporting structures.

• Assess middleware, APIs, messaging technologies, and integration patterns for adherence to standards.

• Establish governance standards for middleware services, event streams, messaging platforms, and integration technologies.

• Collaborate with business, technology, and SRE teams to define SLO-SLI metrics and success criteria.

• Evaluate service-to-service communication, event-driven architectures, messaging solutions, and integration dependencies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with 6 years of experience in Systems Support, Analytics, or Operational Support, OR a High School Diploma or GED with 10 years of experience in Systems Support, Analytics, or Operational Support.

• Over 6 years of experience in supporting enterprise technology solutions, application portfolios, or technology transformation initiatives.

• Proven experience collaborating directly with Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security teams.

• Background in evaluating system integrations, APIs, application dependencies, cloud solutions, and enterprise platforms.

• Experience in supporting technology governance, architecture review boards, or technology risk assessments.

• Preferred background in banking or financial services technology.

• Experience in evaluating application architectures, integrations, APIs, middleware platforms, data flows, and infrastructure dependencies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive, thoughtfully designed, and high-quality benefits program.

• Variable incentives, bonuses, benefits, and/or other awards may be included in total compensation.