Vice President, Enterprise Architecture

Vuori, Inc•Carlsbad, CA

3d•$250,000 - $325,000•Onsite

About The Position

The VP of Enterprise Architecture is a strategic technology leader responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the end-to-end enterprise architecture for the organization. This role reports into the CIO and oversees all architectural domains—business, application, data, integration, and infrastructure—with a specialized focus on AI, intelligent automation, and emerging agentic platforms. This executive will shape our multi-year architecture roadmap, ensure technology alignment with business strategy, and guide the adoption of modern architectures that drive scale, resilience, innovation, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, platform engineering, or large-scale systems design.
5+ years in a senior architecture or technology executive role.
Deep expertise across enterprise architecture domains (application, data, cloud, integration, security).
Hands-on experience with AI/ML platforms, LLMs, agent frameworks, and automation technologies.
Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.
Proven success leading architecture teams and governing complex enterprise environments.
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence at the executive level.
Bachelor's degree required; Master's in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

Define and lead the enterprise architecture strategy across all architectural domains.
Establish the enterprise blueprint for AI-enabled transformation, agent-based systems, and next-generation automation.
Govern standards, patterns, and principles across applications, data, cloud, and integration platforms.
Partner with senior leadership to ensure technology architecture supports the technology investments and business priorities.
Oversee end-to-end AI architecture, including LLM platforms, model governance, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines.
Develop and maintain the enterprise technology roadmap, ensuring scalability, security, and resilience.
Enable cross-functional alignment with engineering, security, data, and product organizations.
Govern platform interoperability, API strategy, microservices, and event-driven patterns.
Oversee Responsible AI practices, risk frameworks, compliance, and ethical deployment of intelligent systems.
Drive architectural rigor in cloud adoption, modernization, and technical debt reduction.
Champion innovation by evaluating emerging tech and advising executive leadership.