Enterprise Architecture

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture strategies, principles, standards, policies, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
• Assess current-state and target-state architecture and develop transition and gap-analysis views across relevant domains.
• Translate organizational strategy into architecture capabilities, initiatives, transition states, and investment priorities.
• Maintain business capability maps, value streams, enterprise models, dependency views, and transformation roadmaps.
• Establish review boards, decision records, compliance reviews, and design assurance processes.
• Review programs, projects, and solution proposals for alignment with enterprise standards and strategy.
• Identify gaps, risks, dependencies, obsolescence, duplication, and opportunities for modernization, standardization, and reuse.
• Advise stakeholders, mentor architects, and support portfolio planning, business cases, RFPs, vendor evaluations, and technology selection.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, design sessions, and executive presentations; improve architecture methods, repositories, and quality standards.

Experience and competencies

• Typically 10–15+ years of experience in technology, architecture, consulting, digital transformation, or related disciplines; at least 5 years in enterprise architecture or senior architecture leadership.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale assessments, target-state design, transformation roadmaps, and governance across multiple architecture domains.
• Experience engaging senior executives and translating complex architecture into business-oriented recommendations.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture concepts, methods, governance, and operating models; advanced TOGAF knowledge and strong ArchiMate knowledge.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, stakeholder-management, and decision-support skills; excellent written and verbal communication.
• Large enterprise, government, regulated-environment, or major transformation experience is highly desirable.

Methods, tools, and certifications

• UML and BPMN familiarity is beneficial.
• Experience with Bizzdesign, Orbus/iServer, ARIS, Sparx Enterprise Architect, MEGA HOPEX, or equivalent platforms.
• TOGAF and ArchiMate certifications are preferred; relevant cloud, security, data, governance, or architecture certifications are advantageous.
• PMP, ITIL, COBIT, SABSA, CDMP, or equivalent certifications may be beneficial depending on the engagement.

Key deliverables

Candidate profile