Enterprise Architecture

About the Role
This position involves leading enterprise-wide architecture engagements to ensure a robust alignment amongst organizational strategy, business capabilities, digital transformation initiatives, information management, applications, technology, security, and investment priorities. As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you will define current-state and target-state architectures, develop transformation roadmaps, establish architecture governance, and provide senior-level advisory support to both business and technology stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and evolution of Enterprise Architecture strategies, principles, standards, policies, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
• Assess the current enterprise landscape and develop clear views of current-state, target-state, transitions, and gap analyses across Business, Data, Application, Technology, Experience, AI, and Cybersecurity domains.
• Translate organizational strategy and transformation objectives into architecture capabilities, initiatives, transition states, and investment priorities.
• Develop and maintain business capability maps, value streams, enterprise-wide architecture models, dependency views, and transformation roadmaps.
• Establish and operate architecture governance mechanisms, including architecture review boards, decision records, compliance reviews, and design assurance processes.
• Review programs, projects, and solution proposals to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and strategic direction.
• Identify architectural gaps, duplication, technology risks, dependencies, obsolescence, and opportunities for modernization and standardization.
• Develop and maintain architecture principles, standards, patterns, guidelines, technology standards, and reusable reference models.
• Provide architecture leadership and advisory support to executives, business owners, digital transformation teams, technology functions, program managers, and vendors.
• Guide and mentor solution architects and domain architects to ensure consistency across architecture deliverables.
• Support portfolio planning, business cases, RFPs, vendor evaluations, technology selections, and transformation programs from an architecture perspective.
• Ensure architecture deliverables are complete, traceable, understandable, and suitable for executive and technical audiences.
• Facilitate architecture workshops, stakeholder interviews, design sessions, and executive presentations.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Enterprise Architecture methods, metamodels, repositories, templates, governance practices, and quality standards.

Required Experience

• Typically 10–15+ years of experience in technology, architecture, consulting, digital transformation, or related fields.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in Enterprise Architecture or a senior architecture leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience in enterprise-scale architecture assessments, target-state design, transformation roadmaps, and governance activities.
• Experience working across multiple architecture domains, including Business, Data, Applications, Technology, Integration, Cloud, and Security.
• Strong experience engaging senior executives and translating complex architecture topics into business-oriented recommendations.
• Experience in large enterprises, government entities, regulated environments, or major transformation programs is highly desirable.

Required Knowledge & Competencies

• Strong understanding of Enterprise Architecture concepts, methods, governance, and operating models.
• Advanced knowledge of TOGAF and practical applications of architecture development methods.
• Proficient with ArchiMate and enterprise modeling concepts; familiarity with UML and BPMN is beneficial.
• Skilled in developing architecture assessments, heatmaps, capability models, transition architectures, roadmaps, principles, standards, and governance artifacts.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, stakeholder management, and decision-support skills.
• Ability to balance strategic direction with practical implementation constraints, dependencies, and organizational readiness.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a capability to produce executive-quality architecture documents and presentations.
• Proven ability to work effectively in consulting environments and across multidisciplinary teams.

Preferred Certifications

• TOGAF® certification (preferred).
• ArchiMate® certification (preferred).
• Relevant certifications in cloud, security, data, governance, or architecture are advantageous.
• PMP®, ITIL®, COBIT®, SABSA®, CDMP®, or equivalent certifications may be beneficial depending on the engagement.

Preferred Tools & Platforms

• Experience with Enterprise Architecture and modeling platforms such as Bizzdesign, Orbus/iServer, ARIS, Sparx Enterprise Architect, MEGA HOPEX, or equivalent repositories and modeling tools.

Key Deliverables

• Enterprise Architecture strategy and roadmap.
• Current-State and Target-State Enterprise Architecture.
• Architecture gap analysis and transition roadmap.
• Business capability and value-stream models.
• Enterprise architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Architecture governance framework and review outputs.
• Architecture repository and metamodel content.
• Executive architecture presentations, assessments, recommendations, and decision papers.

Candidate Profile
We are looking for a senior architecture professional who combines strategic thinking with strong hands-on architecture capability. The ideal candidate will work seamlessly with executives and technical teams, structure complex enterprise problems, develop high-quality architecture deliverables, and provide practical guidance that bridges strategy with execution.