Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture

Senior Director, Enterprise ArchitectureNorfolk Southern is transforming how railroads operate through modern technology, data-driven decision making, AI-enabled capabilities, and platform-based delivery. The Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture serves as the enterprise technology strategist responsible for defining the future-state technology landscape and ensuring technology investments align with business priorities, operational excellence, and long-term enterprise objectives. Reporting to the AVP, Technology & Digital Strategy, this leader will establish and evolve enterprise architecture capabilities across business applications, data, AI, cloud, infrastructure, and security domains. The role is responsible for enterprise technology standards, architecture governance, target-state architectures, modernization roadmaps, and technology decision frameworks that enable Norfolk Southern to operate a more stable, resilient, secure, and customer-focused railroad.Responsibilities include:Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Target State DesignArchitecture Governance & Technology Decision MakingModernization, Platforms & Cloud TransformationData, AI & Digital InnovationBusiness Alignment & Executive InfluenceOrganization & Talent LeadershipEducation Required:Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Management, or related technical field) required.Skills Required:10+ years of progressive technology leadership experience, including significant experience in Enterprise Architecture.Proven experience developing enterprise-wide technology strategies, architectures, standards, and governance models in large, complex organizations.Deep expertise in one or more architecture domains including enterprise architecture, cloud, platforms, applications, data, AI, cybersecurity, or infrastructure.Experience leading large-scale modernization initiatives involving cloud, application transformation, data platforms, AI capabilities, and/or enterprise systems.Demonstrated success influencing senior executives and driving enterprise change across matrixed organizations.Strong understanding of architecture governance, technology risk management, resiliency, security, and technology investment planning.Exceptional communication, storytelling, and executive presentation skills.Experience leading teams and building enterprise architecture capabilities.Work Conditions Environment: Hybrid 2 days on-site and remote work 3 days per week. Shift Work: No On-Call: No Weekend Work: NoCompany Overview: Since 1827, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Today, it operates a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network. Committed to furthering sustainability, Norfolk Southern helps its customers avoid 15 million tons of yearly carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a majority of the country's population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes.