Enterprise Architecture

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture strategies, principles, standards, policies, reference architectures, and roadmaps; assess current states and develop target, transition, and gap-analysis views.
• Translate strategy into architecture capabilities, initiatives, transition states, and investment priorities; maintain capability maps, value streams, enterprise models, and dependency views.
• Establish governance through review boards, decision records, compliance reviews, and design assurance; review programs and solutions for alignment.
• Identify gaps, duplication, risks, dependencies, obsolescence, and opportunities for consolidation, modernization, standardization, and reuse.
• Advise executives and multidisciplinary stakeholders, guide and mentor solution and domain architects, and support portfolio planning, business cases, RFPs, vendor evaluations, and technology selection.
• Maintain clear, traceable architecture deliverables; facilitate workshops and presentations; improve methods, metamodels, repositories, templates, governance, and quality standards.

Required experience

• Typically 10–15+ years of experience in technology, architecture, consulting, digital transformation, or related disciplines.
• At least five years of hands-on Enterprise Architecture or senior architecture leadership experience.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale assessments, target-state design, transformation roadmaps, and governance.
• Experience across multiple domains, including Business, Data, Applications, Technology, Integration, Cloud, and Security.
• Experience engaging senior executives and translating complex architecture topics into business-oriented recommendations.
• Large enterprise, government, regulated-environment, or major transformation program experience is highly desirable.

Knowledge and competencies

• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture concepts, methods, governance, and operating models; advanced TOGAF knowledge and practical architecture development experience.
• Strong ArchiMate and enterprise modeling knowledge; UML and BPMN familiarity is beneficial.
• Ability to develop assessments, heatmaps, capability models, transition architectures, roadmaps, principles, standards, and governance artifacts.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, stakeholder-management, decision-support, and communication skills; balance strategy with delivery constraints and organizational readiness.

Preferred certifications

• TOGAF and ArchiMate certifications are preferred; relevant cloud, security, data, governance, or architecture certifications are advantageous.
• PMP, ITIL, COBIT, SABSA, CDMP, or equivalent certifications are beneficial depending on the engagement.

Preferred tools

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

Key deliverables

Candidate profile