IT Enterprise Architect

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture (EA) roadmap aligned to business strategy
• Create reference architectures, patterns, and standards for cloud-native, event-driven, and microservices architectures
• Drive reuse of shared platforms, APIs, and services across products and business units
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to the most complex and visible projects
• Design scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective architecture on AWS/Azure/GCP
• Lead modernization and migration plans for legacy systems to cloud
• Partner with SRE/Platform Engineering on reliability, observability, capacity planning, and performance tuning
• Establish integration strategy (API-first, messaging/event streaming, data mesh/lakehouse) and master data alignment
• Govern API lifecycle, versioning, and developer experience (DX)
• Define scalable cloud data architecture
• Embed security-by-design (Zero Trust, IAM, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability remediation)
• Ensure alignment with regulatory needs (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR/CCPA, HIPAA if applicable)
• Operate an Architecture Review Board (ARB), standards catalog, and exception process
• Define architecture decision records (ADRs), guardrails, and reference implementations
• Mentor solution architects and engineering teams
• enable strong DevSecOps practices and CI/CD
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business value for executives and cross-functional leaders
• Produce architecture blueprints, capability maps, and system interaction diagrams

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• 8 -10+ years in architecture roles
• 3-5+ years leading cloud-native architectures
• Proven application of EA frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman) and cloud reference architectures
• Experience with SaaS multitenancy, PaaS services, and platform/API productization
• Cloud architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Bicep), Kubernetes, containers
• API design (REST/GraphQL), event streaming (Kafka), service mesh, observability (OpenTelemetry)
• Experience and proficiency in designing cloud data and analytics architecture
• DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins), SRE practices
• SaaS Implementation and Architecture
• Executive presence, systems thinking, strong communication, influence without authority, facilitation

TOGAF 9/10, AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Pro), Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, CISSP/CCSP (nice to have)