Enterprise Architect

AgCountry Farm Credit Services (AgCountry), Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica) and Frontier Farm Credit are financial cooperatives that operate under shared management across eight states. While each association is owned by its local farmers and ranchers, they collaborate by pooling resources, expertise, and talent to provide affordable credit, crop insurance, and financial services.

Our associations are united by a common mission and commitment to serving rural America and supporting each other, which drives the success of the farmers, ranchers, and agribusiness we serve. We take pride in being a great place to work, and this enthusiasm is reflected in the relationships our team members foster with one another and with our customers.

 

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to help shape and align our technology strategy with the company’s business vision. In this role, you’ll establish enterprise architecture standards and guidelines, develop current and future-state architecture models, and create a holistic approach across technologies. You’ll collaborate with architecture and technology partners to evaluate solutions and ensure our technology environment supports the organization’s evolving business needs and goals.

 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Define enterprise technology architecture objectives and establish associated policies, standards, and guidelines. Provide guidance to Solution Architects and Lead Solution Developers to ensure solutions are delivered in accordance with established policies, standards, and guidelines. Propose and champion architectural improvements and redesigns. Participate in holistic IT architecture planning to support future organizational needs. Develop current state and future-state architecture models that support the organization’s strategies and goals.
• Design a holistic architecture approach across all technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, and business requirements. Identify the organizational and financial impacts and benefits of solution architecture. Document enterprise architecture designs.
• Monitor the current state solutions and identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements. Understands technology trends and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models. Ensures application portfolio is maintained.
• Provide design leadership and mentorship to team members involved in solution delivery. Partner with business owners to balance desired system features with the need for sustainable technology solutions. Collaborate with solution delivery teams to champion development architecture, coding standards, and security standards. Advocate for agile and pragmatic development practices.
• Collaborate with other architecture roles to define principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns that align technology decisions with the enterprise’s future-state architecture vision. Design and lead governance activities to ensure solution architecture, assurance and compliance. Partner with project teams and organizational leadership to ensure effective execution of architecture plans.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and functional teams to evaluate technology solutions that meet business needs and align with the organization’s technology architecture. Develop proposals and estimates for the design and implementation of technology solutions.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, or related field is require.

Years of Experience

• 10+ years’ related experience in at least two IT solutions development disciplines, including solutions architecture, technical architecture, network management, applications development, data management, IT operations, or security.

 

Why Us:

For qualifying positions, we provide a competitive benefits package designed to support health and well-being, financial security, and work-life balance:

• Health Benefits : Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement Plans : 401(k) 
• Paid Time Off : Vacation, sick leave, paid holidays, and parental leave
• Additional Benefits : Life and disability insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), wellness programs, tuition assistance, and short-term incentive pay

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About Us:

AgCountry has 43 offices, is based in Fargo, North Dakota and serves portions of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. FCSAmerica is based in Omaha, NE and has 42 local offices serving rural communities and agriculture in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Frontier Farm Credit has six offices serving eastern Kansas. Together, we support nearly 82,000 producers and agribusinesses, meeting the needs of today’s agricultural industry with our combined 2600+ employees providing lending, risk management, technology, commodity marketing, and customer and employee education.

AgCountry Farm Credit Services, ACA, Farm Credit Services of America, ACA, and Frontier Farm Credit, ACA are Equal Employment Opportunity employers, and they comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws.