Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: Maumee, OH

Contract: 12 months with possible extension/direct hire

Schedule: Monday to Friday (1st Shift)

Compensation: $58-60/hour, PTO, optional medical/dental benefits

Onboarding Requirements: Background check, Drug Screen, Employment Verification

POSITION SUMMARY

As an Enterprise Architect, you will collaborate with senior management to craft and review enterprise architecture strategies that align with the organization's strategic objectives. Your role involves defining strategies, specifying requirements, conducting feasibility studies, and producing strategic models for infrastructure, security, and assigned business functions to meet business needs effectively. Additionally, you will establish policies and strategies for enterprise architecture components within a designated domain, ensuring adherence to technical strategies, standards, and practices while promoting consistency.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Enterprise Architecture

• Develop an Enterprise Architecture Framework & Roadmap(s) to drive consolidation, rationalization, and enhanced functionality across the IT environment.
• Collaborate with global infrastructure, information, and application solution architects to drive architectural convergence.
• Provide leadership in the Infrastructure and Cybersecurity domains.
• Define enhancements to the Enterprise Architecture process and procedures.
• Manage Infrastructure Architecture and Standards repository documents to serve as a technical reference for IT Strategy, Architecture, and Project Planning.

IT Strategy

• Understand corporate business imperatives and align IT strategies accordingly.
• Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to balance adherence to enterprise architecture standards with legacy system requirements, supporting overall business rate of change and budget constraints.

Program and Project Governance

• Conduct architecture reviews in partnership with solution architects to ensure compliance with published architecture strategies, standards, and policies.

New Capabilities/Innovation

• Lead POC/Pilot and Technology selection projects in infrastructure and cybersecurity domains to influence IT and business unit technology directions.
• This may include building business cases, evaluating build vs. buy solutions, and assuming solution architecture responsibilities for POC/Pilot projects.

General IT Management

• Understand IT financial management to interpret and explain key IT spending categories, trends, and opportunities to regional management.
• Familiarity with IT Strategy, Program and Project Management, Application Development principles, and IT Operations.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in a related discipline such as Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Science, or Business. Master’s degree in relevant discipline preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 7-10 years in related business, business process improvement, or information technology work; experience in manufacturing industries (automotive, aerospace, etc.) preferred.
• Development of IT Architecture on multiple major global applications or infrastructure projects.

Certifications

• None required.

Additional Skills

• Development of IT Standards used by global companies.
• Cloud architecture experience a MUST, preferably with Azure.
• Strong experience in architecting infrastructure and cybersecurity.
• Experience using IT Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF, etc.
• Familiarity with IT Architecture Tools such as Abacus, System Architect, Troux EA tools, etc., and modeling notations such as UML.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and operating IT Architecture Governance processes.
• Familiarity with general principles of Enterprise Architecture, such as approaches, patterns, metrics, and relevant industry standards.
• Experience in a global manufacturing environment desired.

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE

• TOGAF or other IT Architect certifications highly desired. Other IT industry certifications (ITIL, PMP, CISA, etc.) are a plus.
• SFIA v4 skill IDs most applicable include but are not limited to GOVN, IRMG, ISCO, DPRO, SCTY, INAS, CNSL, TECH, STPL (see http://www.sfia.org.uk for definitions and details).

HRU is an EOE (Equal Opportunity Employer)