Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture – Technology

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead and propel the advancement of the enterprise architecture strategy, principles, standards, and governance practices.

• Offer guidance and recommendations that align technological choices with business goals, risk tolerance, operational requirements, and long-term strategy.

• Establish and uphold architecture governance processes to ensure consistent, scalable, and effective technology decision-making.

• Collaborate with executive and technology leaders to assess priorities, suggest technological directions, and support enterprise transformation initiatives.

• Facilitate teamwork across architecture, engineering, security, data, infrastructure, cloud, and pillar architects.

• Evaluate enterprise technology roadmaps and pinpoint opportunities to boost business value, mitigate risks, enhance capabilities, and optimize investments.

• Provide leadership and oversight for transition and target architecture roadmaps, including modernization initiatives.

• Cultivate architecture talent, strengthen organizational capabilities, and nurture high-performing teams and communities of practice.

• Keep abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends to guide strategic technology planning and innovation.

• Communicate the architecture vision, priorities, and recommendations to executive leadership and key stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

• At least 3 additional years of experience in a related functional area.

• Minimum of 6 years of management experience, including responsibilities for hiring, training, assigning work, and managing the performance of direct reports.

• Comprehensive technology knowledge pertaining to the functional area.

• Capability to define and advance enterprise architecture strategy, standards, principles, policies, guardrails, reference architectures, and target-state direction.

• Proficiency in aggregating business-unit and domain technology plans, assessing enterprise alignment, identifying overlaps and gaps, and formulating architecture-informed recommendations.

• Working knowledge across integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, AI, security, and custom application architecture.

• Ability to balance enterprise guardrails with delivery speed, business priorities, innovation, and practical implementation realities.

• Skills in enterprise architecture strategy, standards development, and roadmap synthesis.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent business and leadership capabilities.

• Ability to lead and effectively collaborate at the enterprise level.

• Capability to regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment.

• Focus on continuous improvement through metrics and feedback.

• For remote roles, maintain high engagement in virtual environments, including being camera-present during meetings.

• VSP Vision employees will have access to sensitive personal information and must adhere to Information Security and Privacy Policies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligible bonuses and commissions may be part of the compensation package.

• VSP Vision benefits are offered (specific benefits not detailed in the posting).

• Remote work arrangement available.

• Equal opportunity employment practices.

• Drug-free workplace and pre-employment substance abuse testing.