Enterprise Architect

Tittle: Enterprise Architect

Location: Deerfield, IL (Onsite)

Duration: Fulltime

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 10+ years of enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or large-scale technology transformation experience.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman.
• Expertise across business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, and security architecture
• Experience defining target-state architectures, reference architectures, roadmaps, principles, standards, and governance
• Knowledge of APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, data management, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and hybrid/multi-cloud platforms
• Proficiency with architecture modelling and documentation tools
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies, modernization options, technical risk, and total cost of ownership.

Roles & Responsibilities -

• Define and maintain the enterprise-wide technology architecture aligned with business strategy.
• Assess current-state capabilities and establish target-state architectures and transition roadmaps
• Create and govern architecture principles, standards, patterns, reference architectures, and decision records.
• Guide cloud, application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security modernization.
• Review solution designs for alignment, scalability, resilience, interoperability, compliance, and cost efficiency
• Chair or support architecture review boards and manage exceptions.
• Partner with business leaders, product teams, security, data, engineering, operations, and vendors
• Advise executives on technology investments, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs
• Mentor domain and solution architects.
• Monitor emerging technologies and recommend pragmatic adoption strategies.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Strategic thinking and executive-level communication and influence.
• Stakeholder facilitation; cross-functional leadership in matrix organizations.
• Architecture governance; negotiation and conflict resolution; decision-making under ambiguity.
• Portfolio prioritization; risk and dependency management; mentoring; clear written documentation, storytelling, and presentation skills.