Senior Enterprise Architect

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

📋 Description

• Deliver Enterprise Architecture services and provide industry-specific subject matter expertise.

• Create connections with existing roadmaps to ensure project objectives align with overarching strategic goals.

• Facilitate, develop, and uphold project- and initiative-specific plans, roadmaps, and other essential deliverables.

• Identify and strategize new enterprise or shared services necessary to meet project demands and enhance enterprise scalability.

• Direct project strategic vision and collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the project lifecycle.

• Ensure coherence between project architecture, business strategy, planned solutions, IT products, and enterprise shared services.

• Develop and contribute to enterprise architecture models that map business objectives, data, and technology.

• Work alongside product discovery teams to address emerging product needs.

• Identify opportunities for business process improvements and reengineering in collaboration with stakeholders.

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

• Evaluate current and future technologies, coordinate IT governance approvals, and assess enterprise fit.

• Build strong working relationships with internal business programs and product managers.

• Utilize project management tools, client modeling tools, and applicable standards to create architecture artifacts.

• Adhere to product delivery standards and Agile methodologies such as Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban.

• Provide strategic assistance to internal teams and vendor partners.

• Contribute to enterprise and IT governance processes.

• Develop frameworks, guidelines, and standards for enterprise architecture.

• Evaluate and document proposed solution architectures and project architectural artifacts for alignment with client EA standards.

• Record findings from architecture assurance in the enterprise architecture repository.

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

• Maintain adherence to standards and processes of the enterprise architecture repository.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of seven (7) years of full-time experience in applying Enterprise Architecture principles within the last 10 years, with at least five (5) years in a leadership role.

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field, with additional relevant experience that can substitute for education on a year-for-year basis.

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

• A minimum of five (5) years of full-time experience within the last 10 years in communicating project technologies that require governance approvals and explaining their enterprise impact.

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

• Ability to provide client/user end-reference contact information for each relevant project and two client references upon request.

• Reference contacts must represent the organization for which the project was executed and have held a managerial or supervisory position.

• Two years of experience with Agile methodologies is preferred.

• Two years of experience in developing strategic and architectural directions and translating them to system owners, data owners, and PMO teams is preferred.

• Two years of experience in gathering and organizing information and creating roadmaps that support enterprise and IT governance is preferred.

• Two years of experience using Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) in architecture assurance is preferred.

• Two years of experience in analyzing business functions and information workflows with data dependencies to support enterprise-level solution roadmaps is preferred.

• Must be a legal resident of the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits typically found in larger companies.

• Flexible workplace options.

• Excellent work-life balance.

• Equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion.