Team Lead, Enterprise Architecture

POSITION PURPOSE

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES      

• Leads the enterprise architecture function and provides day-to-day leadership, direction and mentoring to a team of architects.
• Establishes, maintains, and evolves the company’s enterprise architecture framework, standards, governance processes, and architectural repository.
• Alignment of IT strategy, architectural direction, and technical planning with company's business goals and operating model.
• Provides Long-term strategic responsibility for architecture direction across infrastructure, applications, cloud, platform, network, security, data, and emerging technologies.
• Create practical roadmaps and transition architectures that support implementation of target state capabilities.
• Promote shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flow.
• Ensures that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies.
• Manages the risks associated with information and IT assets through appropriate standards, guidelines, and security policies.
• Provides direct leadership in the development of policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation, and use of Information Technology within the enterprise.
• Establishes standardized methods for review, documentation, and design across technology domains.
• Review new products, services, platforms, and technical initiatives with emphasis on documenting their impact in current architecture, operations, security, supportability, and total cost of ownership.
• Leads architectural assessments and design reviews for enterprise technology solutions.
• Conducts proof of concept, lab review, and validation activities to confirm architecture designs.
• Creates and maintains architecture artifacts to support planning, decision-making, implementation, transition, and operational support.
• Develop current-state, future-state, and transitional architecture views that support business and technical planning.
• Defines and enforces architectural standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns to improve consistency and reduce delivery risk.
• Follows and promotes best practices in modeling standards, documentation, and architecture principles across the team.
• Leads the development of team processes including intake, review, prioritization, exception handling, and post-implementation evaluation.
• Leads a team of architects through mentoring, work prioritization, and performance guidance.
• Build strong partnerships with engineering, operations, security, application, and business teams.
• Ensures team services are well coordinated with other corporate and technology functions.
• Keeps senior management informed of architectural direction, standards adoption, progress towards established objectives and significant risks/issues.
• Facilitates architectural review boards, technical working group sessions, cross-functional design discussions, and governance committees and required.
• Translates complex technical concepts into clear business and operational goals for stakeholders with varying degrees of technical knowledge.
• Assists team and project teams with architectural guidance, standards interpretation, and implementation planning.
• Promotes organizational maturity in architectural practices, governance, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Stays informed of trends and changes in the information services field.
• Identifies opportunities to improve architecture processes, governance maturity, and technical standardization across the enterprise.
• Supports the organization in evaluating emerging technologies and evolving business needs with a practical and risk-aware architecture approach.
• Embraces all other duties as assigned.
• Work should be balanced at 75% doing the work and 25% leading people.
• Oversee a small team.
• Primarily responsible for day-to-day operations within a team.
• Hands-on with technical or project work.
• Focus on tactical execution and task-level support.
• Provides direction, mentoring, and removes blockers.
• Participates in performance evaluations.
• Approves PTO and oversees team coverage.
• Escalation points for employees.
• Acts as a peer leader for the team.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience and training
• Architecture-related certification or framework training preferred (TOGAF/SAFe or equivalent)
• Seven or more (7 ) years of experience working in a 24x7 operational environment.
• Five or more (5 ) years of architectural level experience, systems design, or enterprise/platform architecture experience.
• Two or more (2 ) years of leadership experience, team-lead experience, or equivalent decision-making authority.
• Experience establishing or maturing architecture standards, governance processes, frameworks, or documentation practices.
• Experience leading cross-functional technology initiatives and influencing technical direction across multiple teams.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE

• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, governance models, and operating practices.
• Strong knowledge of design and architectural patterns across infrastructure, platform, cloud, network, and application ecosystems.
• Strong business analysis skills and experience, including development of business vision and strategies, functional decomposition, requirements capture, and process modeling.
• Experience developing architectural standards, reference architectures, roadmaps, and implementation guidance.
• Experience with structure approaches to system design, implementation planning, and technology governance.
• Experience with “System of Systems” architecture development, partitioning of functionality among platforms, services, systems and identifying interoperability concerns.
• Working knowledge across multiple technology domains including Cloud, Networking, SaaS, Virtualization, AI, security, and emerging technologies.
• Strong analytical/technical knowledge pertaining to decision analysis.
• Knowledge of Change Management practices, operational support considerations, resiliency planning, and support model impacts of architectural decisions.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Special

• No hazardous or significantly unpleasant conditions (such as in a typical office).
• Additional hours, including Saturday/Sunday support, as required.
• Occasional overnight travel for training, conferences, and to clients required.
• Long duration of computer workstation usage.
• On-call responsibilities, available 24/7 via phone or pager.

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In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals.  However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which impose undue hardships on the organization.