Director Enterprise Architecture

TEKsystems•Farmington Hills, MI

1d•$225,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision to ensure alignment with business strategy, operating model, and long term organizational goals. • Lead architecture governance by establishing standards, frameworks, roadmaps, and decision making processes that guide technology investments and solution designs. • Partner with executive and functional leaders to translate business priorities into scalable, secure, and cost effective enterprise technology plans. • Oversee portfolio and solution architecture across applications, data, infrastructure, integration, and security domains. • Identify modernization opportunities such as cloud adoption, platform consolidation, automation, and emerging technology use cases. • Advance technology simplification and rationalization efforts to reduce redundancy, optimize costs, and improve interoperability. • Provide architectural oversight for major programs and transformation initiatives, ensuring solutions meet enterprise standards and long term sustainability. • Drive adoption of architectural principles and best practices, coaching solution architects and engineering teams to elevate architectural maturity. • Establish technology roadmaps and capability models that support strategic planning and multi year investment decisions. • Ensure architecture supports compliance, resilience, data privacy, and cybersecurity requirements. • Evaluate new technologies and vendors, guiding enterprise level decisions on standards, platforms, and integration patterns. • Communicate complex technical concepts to non technical stakeholders, enabling clear decision making and alignment across the organization. • Collaborate with Talent Acquisition and leadership teams to help shape architectural competencies and attract top technical talent (a tie in to your world if you choose). • Measure and report on enterprise architecture value, including impact on efficiency, cost optimization, and transformation outcomes. • Work closely with business stakeholders to ensure designs and roadmaps align. • This role will have 3 direct reports.

Requirements

enterprise architecture
Architecture governance
Solution architecture

Nice To Haves

Financial services industry experience

Responsibilities

Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision
Lead architecture governance
Partner with executive and functional leaders to translate business priorities into scalable, secure, and cost effective enterprise technology plans
Oversee portfolio and solution architecture across applications, data, infrastructure, integration, and security domains
Identify modernization opportunities such as cloud adoption, platform consolidation, automation, and emerging technology use cases
Advance technology simplification and rationalization efforts to reduce redundancy, optimize costs, and improve interoperability
Provide architectural oversight for major programs and transformation initiatives
Drive adoption of architectural principles and best practices
Establish technology roadmaps and capability models that support strategic planning and multi year investment decisions
Ensure architecture supports compliance, resilience, data privacy, and cybersecurity requirements
Evaluate new technologies and vendors
Communicate complex technical concepts to non technical stakeholders
Collaborate with Talent Acquisition and leadership teams to help shape architectural competencies and attract top technical talent
Measure and report on enterprise architecture value
Work closely with business stakeholders to ensure designs and roadmaps align