Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: Remote, NY

Employment Type: Temporary (6 months)

Industry: Banking industry

Compensation: $95/hr

Schedule: 40 hours/week -1 st shift

About the Opportunity:

• We're seeking an experienced Enterprise Architecture professional to help shape the current and future technology landscape across a key business domain. 
• In this role, you'll collaborate with technology and business leaders to define architecture strategies, develop roadmaps, evaluate emerging technologies, and guide initiatives toward scalable, secure, and efficient solutions.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability 
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries 
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work 
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally. 

About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive the business outcomes they seek. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Sound like a good fit?

TODAY

What You'll Do:

• Partner with technology domain leadership to support strategic decision-making and improve technology delivery and operational efficiency.
• Define and communicate current-state and target-state architectures, principles, standards, patterns, and domain roadmaps aligned with enterprise strategy.
• Research emerging technologies and industry trends, providing fact-based recommendations and identifying opportunities for new platforms, products, and system enhancements.
• Collaborate with delivery teams and stakeholders across business, applications, data, cloud/infrastructure, security, integration, operations, and support.
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture reference materials and provide architectural guidance for strategic initiatives, governance discussions, and leadership meetings.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Minimum of 11 years of experience in developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patterns
• Minimum of 11 years of experience in software engineering, software delivery, and solution architecture
• Minimum of 11 years of experience in Business Architecture
• Minimum of 11 years of experience in Business and Technology Acumen
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in business architecture, strategy, consulting, or transformation roles
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in building business architecture artifacts (capability maps, value streams, operating models)
• Minimum of 10 years of experience working in large, complex enterprises

What Sets You Apart:

• Bachelors Degree 
• Masters Degree in Business or Technical 
• Working knowledge of architectural frameworks
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture tools
• Certification and experience working with Cloud technologies and vendors
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Certification in enterprise architecture frameworks
• Experience working in the financial services industry
• Experience working in two or more technical roles related to banking technical design and roadmap planning
• Exceptional Executive Communication Skills
• Certified Business Architect (CBA®) - Business Architecture Guild
• TOGAF or equivalent EA certification
• Strategic thinking and business model design
• Capability modeling and value stream mapping
• Systems thinking and enterprise analysis
• Stakeholder facilitation and executive communication
• Problem-solving and structured decision-making
• Financial and investment analysis (business case, prioritization)
• Influence without authority across complex organizations
• Visualization and modeling (e.g., capability maps, operating models)
• Business Architecture Guild / BIZBOK concepts and practices
• Capabilities, value streams, organization, information mapping
• Enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, FEAPO-aligned definitions) 
• Operating model design and business transformation methods
• Financial services industry structure, regulations, and risk considerations
• Portfolio management and investment prioritization
• SDLC and technology delivery lifecycle alignment
• Data, process, and organizational design principles

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check 

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