Principal Enterprise Architect

Overview

Lead the development and communication of target-state architectures, roadmaps, and solutions across one or more product portfolios and/or multiple complex architecture domains, working with little or no oversight and coaching lead architects on the team.

What you'll do

• Define and document enterprise architecture standards, target state architectures, and best practices that guide architecture decisions across a product portfolio and/or architecture domains.
• Oversee current state enterprise architectures to ensure they are well defined and domain-specific architectures align with enterprise-level strategy and direction; propose new architecture where appropriate.
• Participate in evaluating and approving architecture deliverables; maintain and promote architectural governance, standards, guidelines, and patterns.
• Educate the business and senior leadership on enterprise architecture standards, policies, and best practices to ensure consistency across the organization.
• Create, maintain, and communicate current and target state data architecture for data domains within subject areas.
• Create architecture roadmaps at the product portfolio level, collaborating with executives to translate business strategy and technology objectives into an enterprise architectural approach.
• Evolve technologies at the product portfolio level from legacy environments to industry best practices, determining the correct migration path to the future state.
• Oversee proof of concept activities and draft whitepapers to inform key technology decisions and strategy; provide input and assistance to lead architects on the team.
• Lead the selection of new application, data, and infrastructure technologies and validate that selections align to target architecture and overall technology direction.
• Lead the development of architecture metrics and reporting to evaluate and communicate the achievement and impact of the enterprise architecture function; present enterprise architecture content to internal and external audiences, including cross-functional executive leadership.
• Research technology industry trends to establish best practices that guide the design of technology solutions.

What you'll need

• 10 years of IT experience.
• 7 years of experience in IT system design or architecture.
• 4 years of experience leading technical teams with or without direct reports.
• 3 years of architecture experience at an enterprise level.
• Experience defining cross-domain IT target state architectures and roadmaps.
• Experience working in a large matrixed organization, interacting with senior leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, computer information systems (CIS), engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree).

Nice to have

• Master's degree in business administration, computer science, CIS, engineering, or related field.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, on-site office.