This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture & Technology based in the United States.
This is a senior technology leadership opportunity focused on shaping enterprise architecture strategy, governance, and long-term technology direction.
You will work closely with executive, business, and technology leaders to ensure technology investments support strategic priorities and manage enterprise risk.
The role spans architecture disciplines including cloud, infrastructure, data, AI, security, integration, and application architecture.
You will guide modernization initiatives, evaluate technology roadmaps, and establish practical standards and principles that enable scalable delivery.
A key part of the role is building strong architecture capabilities, developing talent, and fostering collaboration across technical teams.
You will also monitor emerging technologies and translate industry trends into meaningful opportunities for innovation and business value.
This is an influential position for a strategic technology leader who can balance enterprise consistency with agility, innovation, and real-world delivery needs.
Accountabilities:
- Define and continuously evolve enterprise architecture strategy, principles, standards, policies, guardrails, reference architectures, and target-state direction in partnership with technology executives and architecture leaders.
- Establish and maintain effective architecture governance practices that promote consistent, scalable, secure, and value-driven technology decisions.
- Provide strategic recommendations that align technology choices with business objectives, risk tolerance, operational requirements, and long-term enterprise strategy.
- Partner with senior business and technology leaders to evaluate priorities, shape technology direction, and support enterprise transformation and modernization initiatives.
- Aggregate technology plans across business units and domains, assess enterprise-wide alignment, identify overlaps and gaps, and develop architecture-informed recommendations.
- Facilitate collaboration across architecture, engineering, security, data, infrastructure, cloud, AI, and application teams to ensure integrated technology solutions.
- Assess enterprise technology roadmaps and identify opportunities to increase business value, reduce risk, improve capabilities, and optimize technology investments.
- Provide leadership and oversight for transition and target-state architecture roadmaps, including modernization initiatives designed to achieve strategic business outcomes.
- Monitor emerging technologies, market developments, and industry trends to identify opportunities for innovation and inform long-term technology planning.
- Communicate architecture vision, priorities, recommendations, risks, and strategic trade-offs clearly to executive leadership and key stakeholders.
- Build and develop architecture talent through coaching, performance management, capability development, and communities of practice.
- Promote continuous improvement by using metrics, stakeholder feedback, and delivery outcomes to strengthen architecture practices and governance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in technology, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience, with additional relevant experience in the functional area.
- At least 6 years of management experience, including responsibilities for hiring, developing, assigning work, and managing the performance of direct reports.
- Deep technology expertise and demonstrated ability to establish and mature enterprise architecture strategies, standards, principles, policies, guardrails, reference architectures, and target-state roadmaps.
- Strong understanding across multiple technology domains, including integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, AI, security, and custom application architecture.
- Proven ability to synthesize business-unit and domain technology strategies into a cohesive enterprise view, identifying dependencies, gaps, overlaps, risks, and opportunities.
- Experience balancing enterprise architecture governance and standards with delivery speed, business priorities, innovation, and practical implementation constraints.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture strategy, technology governance, roadmap development, modernization, and technology investment planning.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively at the enterprise level and influence senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technology concepts and strategic recommendations to executive and non-technical audiences.
- Strong business acumen, leadership capabilities, strategic thinking, and sound independent judgment.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, build consensus, manage competing priorities, and foster collaborative relationships across diverse technical teams.
- Commitment to continuous improvement through measurable outcomes, feedback, and data-driven decision-making.
- For remote work, a high level of engagement in virtual environments is expected, including maintaining camera presence during meetings when appropriate to support communication and team alignment.
Benefits
- Salary range: $126,000–$191,625 USD, with actual compensation determined by experience and other job-related factors.
- Potential eligibility for bonuses, commissions, and other incentive compensation.
- Comprehensive employee benefits package.
- Remote work opportunity within the United States.
- Opportunity to influence enterprise-wide technology strategy and architecture direction.
- Exposure to executive leadership and high-impact transformation initiatives.
- Opportunity to build and develop architecture teams and enterprise technology capabilities.
- Collaborative environment spanning cloud, AI, data, security, infrastructure, engineering, and application architecture.
- Ability to contribute to modernization and innovation initiatives with broad organizational impact.
- Equal opportunity employment environment committed to inclusion and fair consideration of qualified applicants.
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