Job Title: Enterprise Architect
Location: Cleveland, OH (Hybrid)
Job Type: Full-Time
We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Enterprise Architect to join our team. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our technology landscape, ensuring alignment with business goals, and driving digital transformation initiatives. If you are a visionary leader with a deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles and a passion for designing and optimizing complex systems, we invite you to apply.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Enterprise Architecture Strategy: Develop and maintain the organization's enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and IT capabilities.
2. Architecture Framework: Establish and maintain an architecture framework to guide the development of enterprise solutions and systems.
3. Technology Roadmap: Define and communicate a technology roadmap that supports the organization's long-term goals, including digital transformation initiatives.
4. Solution Design: Collaborate with business leaders and IT teams to design and document end-to-end solutions, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.
5. Standards and Best Practices: Define and enforce architectural standards and best practices to ensure consistency and quality across IT projects.
6. Governance and Compliance: Implement and oversee enterprise architecture governance processes, ensuring compliance with architectural standards and policies.
7. Technology Evaluation: Evaluate emerging technologies and trends, making recommendations for their adoption and integration into the organization's architecture.
8. Risk Assessment: Identify potential risks and challenges in the architecture and propose mitigation strategies.
9. Collaboration: Collaborate closely with stakeholders, including executives, department heads, project managers, and technology teams, to ensure architectural alignment with business needs.
10. Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of enterprise architecture, including architectural diagrams, models, and documentation.
Qualifications:
Formal Education & Certification
• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Technology field of study (e.g., Information Technology, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Systems Management, Mathematics) or equivalent experience.
• Master’s degree a plus.
• TOGAF, CEAP, CSA, CSEA, Cloud Architecture (AWS/Azure) or similar certifications a plus.
• CSM, SAFe, ITIL, APQC, or similar training/certifications a plus.
Knowledge & Experience
• 12+ years IT experience.
• 8+ years of developing complex enterprise systems.
• 8+ years of Application Architecture experience leveraging custom, Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) or Cloud (SaaS/PaaS) components.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience applying systems thinking to create documentation, technical models, reference architecture, whitepapers, and presentations for use by all levels of management, functional, and technical staff.
• Experience in the architecture and development of large-scale, high-risk, strategic Digital Transformation Programs including projects such as ERP, Ecommerce, Enterprise Data Fabric, CRM, Digital Workplace, etc.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures.
• Experience creating and maintaining Enterprise Application Roadmaps.
• Experience with modern integration technologies and microservice best practices.
• Experience conducting and supporting teams through architecture tradeoff management to arrive at design decisions guided by sponsor/stakeholder priorities.
• Experience conducting proof-of-concepts, developing prototypes, and building reference models.
• Experience developing and governing architecture standards and principles.
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
• Prior experience designing application & platform strategies and communicating the vision to a community of stakeholders
• Experience in leading major Digital transformation programs in key business areas
• Experience in Application Portfolio Management and Continuous Delivery Pipelines (DevOps)
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts and translate them for a non-technical audience
• Experience leading or speaking at trade conferences, publishing content, or active participation in professional meetups/guilds
• Strong understanding of Cloud-native application architecture
• Experience applying international constraints and context to enterprise architecture
• Experience deploying and training change management and enablement frameworks
• Experience developing architecture for new product/platform teams
• Experience in applying systems and design thinking methodology to architecture practices
How to Apply:
If you are a visionary leader with a passion for enterprise architecture and a desire to drive innovation within our organization, please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your qualifications and relevant experience to john@emeraldresourcegroup.com. Please include "Enterprise Architect Application" in the subject line. We look forward to reviewing your application.
John Radcliff
IT Recruiter at Emerald Resource Group
Phone 440-627-6902
Email john@emeraldresourcegroup.com
Web www.emeraldresourcegroup.com
1 Eagle Valley Ct #201
Broadview Heights, OH 44147
We are an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
