Enterprise Solutions Architect

Enterprise Architect Vienna, VA Role Summary The Enterprise Architect is a senior technology leader responsible for shaping enterprise architecture strategy and translating business priorities into practical technology roadmaps and solutions. The role serves as a trusted advisor to business and technology leadership, providing architectural direction across complex initiatives. This individual will drive alignment to enterprise standards while balancing business value, scalability, risk, and speed of execution. Act as a key advisor to Business Unit and Functional leadership teams and as a key contributor to the Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy. Develop a deep understanding of business priorities, strategic needs, and roadmaps, and work collaboratively with business and technology leaders to solve complex, business-critical architecture challenges, build capabilities, and shape technology strategy. Serve as a primary architecture domain expert within the accountable capability area. Lead the development of architecture strategies, roadmaps, standards, and guardrails. Apply business capability models, technology reference models, and functional roadmaps to guide investment decisions and enable execution of business and technology strategy. Represent capability and business domain needs within Enterprise Architecture. Assess emerging and existing technologies through a business-value lens, determine their relevance, and help translate innovation into practical enterprise capabilities. Influence and contribute to Enterprise Architecture and technology strategy, maintaining an enterprise-wide view of value streams, business capabilities, technology dependencies, and architecture roadmaps. Drive pragmatic alignment with technology standards and EA Guiding Principles while enabling business outcomes. Key Responsibilities Lead architecture for complex initiatives requiring deep expertise within one or more architecture domains, providing clear architectural direction, designs, and implementation guidance. Act as a trusted advisor to Product Line and business leaders, helping address complex business and technology challenges through architecture, strategy, and practical solution design. Lead solution architecture across projects and products, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and standards while balancing business requirements, speed, scalability, cost, risk, and long-term maintainability. Contribute to the development of architecture principles, standards, and decision frameworks. Identify material exceptions to enterprise standards, assess business and technology implications, and drive appropriate resolution. Review and define architectural, security, integration, data, and technology requirements needed to support enterprise solutions. Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend opportunities to improve business capability, cost effectiveness, scalability, resilience, and technology flexibility. Develop, document, and communicate technology investment and architecture roadmaps, including modernization priorities, technology lifecycle decisions, and opportunities for cost optimization. Partner with business, engineering, product, delivery, data, security, and infrastructure teams to translate architecture strategy into executable solutions. Required Qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline. Minimum 12 years of IT experience , with significant experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, engineering leadership, or related senior technology roles. Significant depth across business architecture and multiple technical architecture domains, including applications, integration, information and data, cloud/infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Strong business acumen and the ability to connect technology decisions directly to business priorities, operating requirements, risk, and measurable outcomes. Familiarity with information management practices, regulatory requirements, data privacy, cybersecurity, and governance requirements relevant to enterprise environments. Strong knowledge of modern enterprise technology ecosystems, including SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, APIs, ERP platforms, microservices, event-driven architectures, integration patterns, data platforms, and advanced analytics. Ability to define and communicate a compelling, business-enabling technology vision and articulate its value to executive, business, and technical stakeholders. Proven ability to translate strategic vision into actionable roadmaps and target-state architectures spanning people, process, data, and technology. Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams, gain stakeholder alignment, challenge assumptions constructively, and establish shared ownership for outcomes. Strong change leadership capabilities, with demonstrated success driving technology and organizational transformation through effective communication, planning, and execution. Ability to operate with significant autonomy, make sound decisions in ambiguous environments, and drive business and technology outcomes while remaining aligned with the evolving Enterprise Architecture strategy. Ability to manage multiple priorities with urgency while maintaining a rigorous, fact-based, and structured approach to problem solving. Demonstrated ability to establish trusted-advisor relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders. Proven ability to work effectively across disciplines and with stakeholders possessing varying levels of business and technical expertise. Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technology topics and clearly articulate recommendations, trade-offs, and decisions. Experience with Agile delivery approaches, including Scrum / SAFe, DevOps, and modern engineering practices. Strong understanding of the strategic technologies the organization will need to adopt and operationalize over the next three to five years. Demonstrated ability to develop architecture guidance, standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns that enable innovation while improving consistency and execution. eSolutionsFirst