Enterprise Software Architect

Establish and maintain a cohesive enterprise architecture vision aligned with business objectives

Reduce complexity and technical debt through intentional simplification and modernization

Enable faster, safer delivery by providing clear standards, patterns, and guardrails

Improve technology investment decisions through roadmaps, governance, and metrics

Elevate architectural maturity across teams via mentorship, influence, and example

Define and continuously evolve enterprise target-state architectures across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains

Develop and maintain multi-year architecture roadmaps that balance innovation, cost, risk, and delivery velocity

Translate business strategy into actionable architectural direction for product and platform teams

Ensure architectural decisions prioritize simplicity, scalability, resilience, and security

Leads the selection of new application, data, and infrastructure technologies and validates that selection aligns to target architecture and overall technology direction

Establish, own, and evolve enterprise architecture standards, principles, patterns, and reference architectures

Lead architecture reviews to ensure alignment with target-state direction while avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy

Partner with engineering leadership to ensure governance is enabling rather than blocking delivery

Promote consistent adoption of standards while allowing for pragmatic, data-driven exceptions

Document and evangelize utilization of AI technologies such as Codex, Claude, or other AI to to support Architectural practices

Ensure usage of AI in support of architectural deliverables meets governance and compliance considerations

Collaborate closely with Solution Architects, Principal Engineers, and Engineering Teams to align designs with enterprise strategy

Provide architectural guidance during initiative inception, major design decisions, and complex trade-off discussions

Support teams in designing cloud-native, event-driven, and API-first solutions where appropriate

Ensure architectural decisions consider operational excellence, observability, and supportability

Assess legacy systems and define clear modernization and migration strategies

Identify and prioritize opportunities to reduce architectural risk, duplication, and long-term cost

Guide incremental modernization efforts that minimize disruption while advancing target-state goals

Research and evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, and industry trends

Provides oversight to ensure Enterprise Architecture practices are maintained and continuously improved

Produce clear architecture decision records, whitepapers, and recommendations to support executive decision-making

Ensure new technology adoption aligns with enterprise standards, skills, and long-term strategy

Clearly communicate architectural intent, trade-offs, and decisions to technical and non-technical audiences, including executive leadership

Champion the value of enterprise architecture as a business enabler, not just a technical function

Facilitate alignment across teams, departments, and portfolios in a complex, fast-moving organization

Communicates technology decisions and standards to the organization, driving understanding and appreciation for the value of architecture governance and standards

Define and track architecture health metrics (e.g., technical debt, standard adoption, system fitness)

Measure and communicate the impact and value of enterprise architecture initiatives

Continuously improve architecture practices, tooling, and ways of working

Mentor and coach Solution Architects and senior engineers

Help grow architectural thinking across engineering teams

Lead by example, modeling strong technical judgment, collaboration, and accountability

Directly manage and develop a small team of architects (1–3 direct reports), setting clear expectations, providing feedback, and supporting career growth

Partner with business and technology leaders to ensure architecture enables current and future needs

Provide architectural insight for M&A, vendor selection, and major investment decisions

Contribute to budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization discussions for technology initiatives

Teams deliver faster and with greater confidence because architectural direction is clear

Technology decisions align consistently with long-term enterprise goals

Complexity and technical debt decrease over time

Architecture is viewed as a strategic partner and trusted advisor across the organization