Senior IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist

• Develop, recommend, and implement the overarching IT Enterprise Architecture strategy. Establish enterprise-wide standards, patterns, and guideline templates to support unified, standardized practices across the organization
• Formulate and manage multi-year architecture roadmaps that advance corporate alignment, eliminate structural redundancies, and reduce operational costs
• Identify core enterprise platforms, products, and tech stacks using modular, composable architecture principles to maximize reuse and interoperability
• Conduct deep technology assessments and fit-gap analyses to evaluate emerging solutions, offering optimal roadmap recommendations to senior leadership
• Map complex business capabilities and data interdependencies, providing direction on operationalizing business visions into technical systems, frameworks, and processes
• Provide high-level governance and architectural support to distributed delivery teams, ensuring active initiatives conform to Target State Architecture (TSA) baselines
• Proactively identify systemic technology risks, architectural limitations, and compliance vulnerabilities, building strong governance frameworks to mitigate long-term impacts
• Collaborate and negotiate with diverse stakeholder groups, technical directors, and executive sponsors. Author impactful briefing notes, technical positions, and standard operating policies

• Minimum of 15+ years of dedicated professional experience operating as an Enterprise Architect across a diverse variety of platforms and technical ecosystems
• Proven track record in a pure Enterprise Architecture and Strategy role (distinguished from an application or solution-specific design position)
• Thorough, comprehensive structural knowledge of industry-standard EA Frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman), platform strategies, and cross-domain architectures
• Demonstrated capability creating, reviewing, and implementing technology policies, blueprints, and patterns from an organization-wide viewpoint
• Deep conceptual knowledge spanning Application Architecture, Data Infrastructure, Technology Clusters, and emerging fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Superior problem-solving, strategic thinking, and presentation skills, with a proven ability to streamline complex landscapes and decommission legacy technical debt

Strong understanding of public sector/government-wide modernization strategies, checkpoint gating processes, and structured Project Management methodologies