Communications Lead

Job Summary: The Principal Architect enables enterprise wide Application and Technology Portfolio Management (APM/TPM) and Modernization by advancing the organization from architecture as documentation to architecture as data. This role delivers decision ready, traceable portfolio insights that inform modernization, rationalization, and governance at scale. Key Responsibilities Portfolio Management & Modernization Design and evolve APM and TPM frameworks, including lifecycle states, categorization, and assessment models. Mature portfolio capabilities across inventory, assessment, rationalization, and modernization stages. Establish traceability between business capabilities, value streams, processes, and application/technology portfolios. Design and maintain a Modernization Scorecard that assesses architectural health and recommends modernization options. Standardize metrics, guardrails, and thresholds to enable consistent, decision ready governance. Architecture as Data Lead the shift from static architecture artifacts to structured, governed architecture data. Define and enforce architecture and business design modeling standards to ensure artifacts are created as data. Maintain core architectural relationships and metadata required for portfolio analysis and decision support. Embed architecture data and scorecards into portfolio and modernization governance workflows. EA Tooling Enablement Leverage EA tools (e.g., ARIS, Alfabet) to model and manage architecture data and relationships. Ensure tooling supports analysis, traceability, and integration, not static documentation. Partner with EA and tool owners to evolve the EA metamodel in support of portfolio and modernization outcomes. Collaboration & Influence Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Product, Engineering, and Portfolio teams. Enable adoption of model driven, data centric ways of working through guidance and patterns. Communicate complex architecture insights in clear, business oriented language. Required Qualifications Senior level experience in Enterprise Architecture, APM, and TPM. Proven expertise in architecture modeling, portfolio analysis, and modernization strategies. Hands on experience with EA tooling (ARIS, Alfabet, or equivalent). Strong ability to influence cross functional teams and senior stakeholders. #J-18808-Ljbffr