Principal Enterprise Architect

OC Sports & Entertainment•Anaheim, CA

3d•$200,000 - $240,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect defines, governs, and evolves OCVIBE’s enterprise technology architecture. This role ensures applications, cloud services, data platforms, integrations, and core infrastructure are aligned with business objectives, scalable for district growth, and supportive of unified guest and tenant experience. As part of the IT organization, the Enterprise Architect partners with the Data Insights Group (DIG), the Digital Experience team, business operations teams, and external vendors/consultants to establish architecture standards, integration patterns, and implementation oversight across the campus.

Requirements

8–12+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture, or senior technical strategy roles
Proven experience leading enterprise integration strategy and overseeing selection and implementation of an integration platform/iPaaS
Deep knowledge of cloud, application, data, and integration architectures and the operationalization of integrations
Demonstrated experience with OT/IT integration in campus, venue, real-estate, hospitality, or industrial environments
Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills; experience running RFPs, defining technical SOWs, and ensuring knowledge transfer to Operations
Excellent written and verbal communication; experience producing architecture artifacts and decision records
Bachelor's Degree

Nice To Haves

Systems thinking and enterprise architectural rigor
Experience with integration platform governance, connector design, observability, SLAs, and operational runbooks
Hands-on experience designing, building, and supporting integrations using an iPaaS platform such as Boomi preferred
Experience in data modeling and governance to enable analytics and real-time insight
Vendor/partner procurement and delivery management experience
Strong documentation and conceptual modeling skills (UML, ArchiMate or equivalent)
Leadership, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills

Responsibilities

Maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap, create reference architectures and standards, and evaluate emerging technologies to support long-term district goals
Act as the architectural authority for major programs and projects: review and approve solution designs, own technical RFP requirements, and publish decision records
Own the end-to-end lifecycle for an integration platform/iPaaS: define requirements, lead vendor evaluation, manage pilots, oversee implementation, plan rollouts, and maintain
Work closely with Cybersecurity to ensure architectures follow organizational security policies, support zero-trust principles, and include appropriate controls for identity, access, segmentation, and incident response readiness
Define enterprise integration patterns and API/connector standards, including error/retry semantics, credential and secrets management, ordering/transaction guarantees, observability, and SLAs
Partner with the Data Insights Group (DIG) to define enterprise data models, pipelines, governance, and data quality standards to enable analytics and real-time operational insight
Design secure integration boundaries between operational technologies (OT) and enterprise IT; embed architectural requirements into the district tech stack and ensure solutions are operable by Operations teams
Establish testing criteria, monitoring requirements, runbooks, escalation paths, and production acceptance gates for integrations and campus systems
Lead the Architectural Review Board (ARB), establish review criteria, guide solution teams through the architecture review process, and ensure technology decisions align with enterprise architecture standards
Direct and coordinate implementation work performed by vendors, consultants, or internal teams to ensure adherence to architecture, delivery quality, and effective knowledge transfer
Advise leadership on architecture tradeoffs and risk, mentor technical staff, and promote adoption of architecture practices across the organization