Senior Director, IT Enterprise Architecture (New York)

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) seeks a hands‑on and strategic Senior Director, Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture. This role reports to the Vice President, Tech Strategy and Architecture in the Information Technology department of PPFA. The IT Enterprise Architecture is a discipline for proactively and holistically identifying, analysing, and optimising information, technology, and processes into an integrated environment that is responsive to change and supports the delivery of PPFA’s business strategy.

Purpose

The role of the Enterprise Architect is to enable business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritise current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer‑term strategic vision of the organisation. The enterprise architect provides technology guidance, road‑maps, principles, standards, and best practices.

• Provides overall direction, guidance, and definition of IT architecture to effectively support the PPFA business strategy.
• Supports all enterprise architectural disciplines (Data, Application, Infrastructures) and champions architectural initiatives.
• Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as supports all architectural disciplines under their direction.
• Leads programmes to develop, maintain, and govern the enterprise architecture across the organisation.
• Works on highly complex projects that require in‑depth knowledge across multiple specialised architecture domains.
• Leads the EA review board and ensures that the solutions are compliant with target‑state architecture models.
• Aligns architecture strategy with business goals and leads teams in developing technology plans.
• Reviews and/or analyses and develops architectural requirements as needed for the organisation.
• Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Directs the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends.
• Ensures recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment.
• Key partner role with technology services to ensure all tech services are scalable and aligned with strategic plans.
• Advises on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities.
• Owns and leads enterprise initiatives to define, design, and implement solutions, including reference architectures, estimates, and costs.
• Acts as a key partner with technology services to ensure all tech services are scalable and aligned with strategic plans.

Engagement

• Partners with InfoSec Enterprise Architecture to ensure end‑to‑end architecture standards and design principles are in place, aligned to the target state architecture. Ensures architecture designs meet the Information Security layer standards across the enterprise.
• Partners across the Information Technology and Information Security organisation to provide strategic and operational direction on annual business planning, technology roadmaps, industry trends, and CIO priorities.
• Works with the Tech Business Partner team, application owners, and business leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology solution trade‑offs influence strategy.
• Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.
• Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Partners with the IT/IS communication lead on the development and execution of communication and education plans for EA capabilities.
• Partners with AppDev and Enterprise Application Systems’ solution architects and application owners to ensure enterprise direction and standards align with specific application solution architecture.

Architect

• Analyzes the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Ensures the quality documentation of all architecture design and analysis work.
• Oversees the evaluation and selection of hardware and software product standards and the design of standard configurations. Includes Information Security Enterprise Architecture as part of the evaluation and selection process to ensure security layer needs are fulfilled.
• Consults with application engineering and development projects to fit systems to architecture, and identifies when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate project needs.
• Consults with infrastructure development projects to fit the infrastructure to the architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate infrastructure needs.
• Owns and leads enterprise initiatives to define, design, and implement cloud‑based solutions, including reference architectures, estimates, and costs.
• Leads and mentors solution architects, engineers, managers, business teams, and individuals.
• Communicates cross‑functionally on the vision and provides presentations of the proposed solution.
• Acts as a subject‑matter expert on cloud best practices within and outside the organisation.
• Performs analysis of best practices and emerging concepts, both internally and externally hosted.

Lead

• Leads the creation and evolution of the EA function, including coordinating an appropriately inspired staff in pursuit of relatively balanced enterprise architecture viewpoints.
• Assesses (via appropriate measurements) and communicates the achievement and impact of the EA.
• Identifies organisational needs (financial, skill, and process resources) and the structures and cultural change necessary to support the EA.
• Builds and drives the maturity of Enterprise Architecture capabilities and ongoing refinement / continuous improvement activities. Includes Information Security Enterprise Architecture in all continuous improvement activities.
• Promotes EA – its processes, outcomes, and lasting results – to the organisation, including IT and business leaders.
• Responsible for the overall training and development of the architecture resources.

Govern

• Leads and facilitates the creation of governing principles to guide enterprise information, technology, and solution decision‑making.
• Ensures Information Security Architecture is foundational to all solution designs through tight collaboration with InfoSec Enterprise Architecture and the CISO.
• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the EA capabilities based on business requirements and IT strategies.
• Designs and directs the EA governance structure and compliance activities (exception and exemption handling) associated with ensuring compliance with the EA.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, system analysis, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 12+ years of IT and business/industry work experience, including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations.
• Leadership experience in cross‑functional teams or projects, and influencing senior‑level management and key stakeholders.
• Requires exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture, business re‑engineering principles and processes, and basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting.
• Excellent organisational, collaborative leadership, decision‑making, and communication skills.
• Ability to be assertive and influence across all levels, including influencing others without direct position power.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to perform critical conversations.
• Excellent business acumen and sound business judgment.
• Ability to present ideas in business‑friendly language.

Travel : 0‑10%, NYC/DC‑based – hybrid schedule of 2 days/week onsite.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America participates in the E‑Verify program. Planned Parenthood Federation of America is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a non‑discriminatory work environment, and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Planned Parenthood Federation of America is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation.

185000 - 190000 USD a year