Provide architectural leadership across multiple initiatives or domains, ensuring solutions are coherent, reusable, and aligned with enterprise direction.
Balance business outcomes, technical risk, cost, and sustainability, operating beyond individual solution delivery to shape enterprise-wide outcomes.
Focus on enterprise and portfolio-level architecture, not day-to-day solution design.
Shape architecture across multiple initiatives, products, and domains to ensure enterprise coherence.
Ensure solution designs align with enterprise standards, target architectures, and transition roadmaps.
Identify cross-domain dependencies, systemic risks, and opportunities for reuse.
Contribute to the development and continuous evolution of enterprise standards and patterns.
Maintain and curate enterprise architecture views, inventories, and roadmap inputs within the EA repository.
Identify and prioritize architectural risk and technical debt reduction opportunities across initiatives.
Act as Solution Architect on exceptionally complex or strategic initiatives where required.
Mentor and guide Solution and Lead Architects to raise architectural maturity.
Act as a trusted architectural advisor to business and technology leaders.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
TOGAF, OpenCA, or equivalent enterprise architecture certification is preferred but not required.
Architectural and technical knowledge
Broad understanding of enterprise technology landscapes, including applications, integration, data, cloud, and security
Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, standards, and patterns at organizational scale
Understanding of how technology enables business capabilities and value streams
Ability to bridge architectural strategy with practical delivery execution through hands-on technical acumen
Working knowledge of enterprise repositories and architecture artefacts (e.g., ADS views, roadmaps, transition architectures) sufficient to curate and assure quality and guide usage, not to perform administrative ownership
Experience shaping and assuring architecture across multiple initiatives, portfolios, or domains
Experience advising leaders on architectural trade-offs involving cost, risk, sustainability, and long-term outcomes
Experience identifying cross-domain dependencies, risks, and opportunities for reuse
Experience influencing stakeholders and contributing to governance and decision forums
Experience operating within enterprise architecture standards and governance frameworks.

Enterprise Architect – Business Architecture Specialization

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