What are the responsibilities and job description for the Adv-Enterprise Architecture position at FedEx Freight?
While this is a remote position, the successful candidate must reside within 50 miles of a FedEx Freight location within the continental US.
Position Overview
Provides governance and execution support for enterprise architecture by maintaining standards, guiding portfolio decisions and ensuring alignment across applications, data and infrastructure. Supports the Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (CoE) through best-practice development, training and enablement to drive consistent adoption across the organization.
Essential Functions
The enterprise architect partners with business and IT stakeholders to plan and govern projects, manage resource capacity across portfolios, and perform financial analysis of technology investments to optimize cost, value, and risk. Participates in developing and guiding technology roadmaps, evaluates solution options, and ensures alignment with enterprise standards while balancing demand, capacity, and budget constraints. Experience in COE / SRE cross teams engagements is desired.
Job Conditions
The compensation listed reflects the pay range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position at the posted location(s). If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the pay information represents the minimum and maximum range for all levels. Actual pay is determined by job-related factors permitted by law and relevant to the position, such as experience, tenure, market level, pay at the location for this job, performance, schedule, and work assignment. Eligible employees offered health, vision, dental, life, AD&D, STD and LTD insurance, employee assistance program, personal/sick paid time, 401(k) retirement savings plan, bonus potential, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, 2 weeks paid parental leave, paid bereavement, employee discounts, 6.67–13.34 hours vacation per month based on service time, 8 paid holidays.
Pay Range: $103,880.00 - $181,790.00 per year
Colorado Pay Ranges: Colorado Springs, Grand Junction $103,880 - $181,790; Henderson, Mead $103,880 - $181,790; Gypsum $103,880 - $181,790
Illinois Pay Ranges: Effingham, Kankakee, Lincoln, Quincy, Rockford, Aurora $103,880 - $181,790; Bolingbrook, Chicago Heights, Des Plaines, Elmhurst, Forest View, Joliet, Schaumburg, Summit-Argo, Zion $103,880 - $181,790
New York Pay Ranges: Plattsburgh, Buffalo, Watertown, North Chili, East Syracuse, Nichols $103,880 - $181,790; Bethpage, Montgomery, West Babylon $103,880 - $181,790
New Jersey Job Postings: $103,880.00 - $142,835.00 per year
This compensation range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting pay range in NJ. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary for the lowest level to the current starting salary of the highest level. Actual starting pay is determined by experience relative to the job, market level, specific location and other job-related factors permitted by law. Regular full & part-time employees (who complete 91 days of employment and work a minimum average of 12 hours per week) are eligible to enroll in medical, dental, and/or vision coverage, tuition reimbursement. Full/part-time employees who are age 21 are eligible for 401(k) after one month of employment.
EST FedEx Freight, Inc
FedEx Freight is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans. If you have a disability and you need assistance in order to apply for a position with FedEx Freight, please e-mail at ADAAssistance@fedexfreight.com. FedEx Freight will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
Position Overview
Provides governance and execution support for enterprise architecture by maintaining standards, guiding portfolio decisions and ensuring alignment across applications, data and infrastructure. Supports the Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (CoE) through best-practice development, training and enablement to drive consistent adoption across the organization.
Essential Functions
- Lead the Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (CoE) through best-practice development, training, and enablement activities
- Govern architecture standards and practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and security across enterprise systems
- Support portfolio reviews to guide technology investment decisions and ensure alignment with business priorities
- Identifying training needs and skill gaps within the organization.
- Provide architectural oversight and guidance across applications, data, and infrastructure/cloud environments, translating enterprise strategies into actionable designs in partnership with product, engineering, and data teams
- Collaborate with stakeholders, e.g., solution architects, to ensure interoperability, alignment, and adoption of architectural standards across technology domains
- Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- Five (5) years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture within complex environment
- Strong expertise in architecture frameworks such as The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or ArchiMate, including modeling tools
- Familiarity with modern data platforms including master data management (MDM), data lakes, and real-time data streaming
- Strong communication skills to explain architecture concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Strategic mindset with the ability to connect architecture decisions to business value and risk
- Skilled collaborator capable of influencing adoption of standards across distributed teams
The enterprise architect partners with business and IT stakeholders to plan and govern projects, manage resource capacity across portfolios, and perform financial analysis of technology investments to optimize cost, value, and risk. Participates in developing and guiding technology roadmaps, evaluates solution options, and ensures alignment with enterprise standards while balancing demand, capacity, and budget constraints. Experience in COE / SRE cross teams engagements is desired.
Job Conditions
- Some travel required
The compensation listed reflects the pay range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position at the posted location(s). If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the pay information represents the minimum and maximum range for all levels. Actual pay is determined by job-related factors permitted by law and relevant to the position, such as experience, tenure, market level, pay at the location for this job, performance, schedule, and work assignment. Eligible employees offered health, vision, dental, life, AD&D, STD and LTD insurance, employee assistance program, personal/sick paid time, 401(k) retirement savings plan, bonus potential, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, 2 weeks paid parental leave, paid bereavement, employee discounts, 6.67–13.34 hours vacation per month based on service time, 8 paid holidays.
Pay Range: $103,880.00 - $181,790.00 per year
Colorado Pay Ranges: Colorado Springs, Grand Junction $103,880 - $181,790; Henderson, Mead $103,880 - $181,790; Gypsum $103,880 - $181,790
Illinois Pay Ranges: Effingham, Kankakee, Lincoln, Quincy, Rockford, Aurora $103,880 - $181,790; Bolingbrook, Chicago Heights, Des Plaines, Elmhurst, Forest View, Joliet, Schaumburg, Summit-Argo, Zion $103,880 - $181,790
New York Pay Ranges: Plattsburgh, Buffalo, Watertown, North Chili, East Syracuse, Nichols $103,880 - $181,790; Bethpage, Montgomery, West Babylon $103,880 - $181,790
New Jersey Job Postings: $103,880.00 - $142,835.00 per year
This compensation range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting pay range in NJ. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary for the lowest level to the current starting salary of the highest level. Actual starting pay is determined by experience relative to the job, market level, specific location and other job-related factors permitted by law. Regular full & part-time employees (who complete 91 days of employment and work a minimum average of 12 hours per week) are eligible to enroll in medical, dental, and/or vision coverage, tuition reimbursement. Full/part-time employees who are age 21 are eligible for 401(k) after one month of employment.
EST FedEx Freight, Inc
FedEx Freight is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans. If you have a disability and you need assistance in order to apply for a position with FedEx Freight, please e-mail at ADAAssistance@fedexfreight.com. FedEx Freight will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
Salary : $103,880 - $181,790