Senior Enterprise Architect

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

📋 Description

• Deliver Enterprise Architecture services along with industry-specific subject matter expertise.

• Implement governance, enterprise architecture strategies, development and management, as well as business process design and reengineering.

• Assist in aligning business strategies with processes and information technology strategies.

• Create connections with existing roadmaps and ensure project objectives are in sync with larger strategic goals.

• Develop and sustain project- and initiative-specific plans, roadmaps, and other relevant deliverables.

• Identify and plan for new enterprise or shared services necessary for project initiatives and scalable enterprise requirements.

• Steer project strategic vision in collaboration with cross-functional teams throughout the project lifecycle.

• Align project architecture with business strategy, planned solutions, IT products, and enterprise shared services.

• Design enterprise architecture models that connect data and technology to business objectives.

• Work in partnership with product discovery teams, stakeholders, business programs, product managers, vendor partners, and internal teams.

• Recognize opportunities for business process improvements and reengineering.

• Assess the integration of existing and new products, defining their roles within the overall architecture.

• Evaluate current and upcoming technologies while coordinating IT governance approvals.

• Utilize project management tools, client modeling tools, and established standards.

• Follow Agile delivery practices, product delivery standards, methods, and practices.

• Contribute to enterprise and IT governance processes, developing architecture frameworks, guidelines, and standards.

• Assess and document proposed solution architecture and project architectural artifacts.

• Log architecture assurance findings in the enterprise architecture repository.

• Ensure compliance with state and federal regulations as well as MITA architectural frameworks.

• Maintain adherence to enterprise architecture repository standards and processes.

• Facilitate communication and the use of the enterprise architecture repository by the project team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of seven (7) years of full-time experience applying Enterprise Architecture principles within the last 10 years.

• At least five (5) of those years must be in a leadership role.

• A Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field is required; additional qualifying experience may substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

• Within the last 10 years, at least six (6) years of full-time experience developing significant components of enterprise architecture plans, including strategic drivers, current and target architectures, roadmaps, and deliverables.

• Within the last 10 years, a minimum of five (5) years of full-time experience communicating project technologies that require governance approvals and explaining technology impacts on the Enterprise.

• Seven (7) years of full-time experience implementing and/or analyzing end-to-end solutions while adhering to enterprise architecture standards and best practices within the last 10 years.

• Must provide contact information for client/user end references for each relevant project upon request.

• Completed reference forms must be submitted when requested; each form must be signed by the individual referenced.

• Reference contacts must represent the company for which the project was developed and have held a management or supervisory role.

• A minimum of two (2) years of experience with Agile methodologies in delivering services and products aligned with project/business outcomes.

• At least two (2) years of experience developing strategic direction and architectural strategy, translating that direction to system owners, data owners, and PMO teams.

• At least two (2) years of experience collecting and organizing information and creating roadmaps that support enterprise and IT governance processes.

• A minimum of two (2) years of experience utilizing Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) in architecture assurance.

• A minimum of two (2) years of experience analyzing business functions and information workflows with data dependencies to support Enterprise-level solution roadmaps.

• Legal residency in the United States is a mandatory requirement for application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits similar to larger companies.

• Flexible workplace arrangements.

• Excellent work-life balance.