What are the responsibilities and job description for the Enterprise Architect position at Signature IT World Inc?
Title: Enterprise Architect
Location: Issaquah, WA (Hybrid model - Onsite for 3 days per week)
Job Description: The Enterprise Architect will provide strategic architectural leadership for a large, multi-stream digital transformation program comprising: This role ensures that all initiatives align with the enterprise target architecture, business strategy, and long-term technology roadmap.
- Mobile Application Development & Enhancements
- Cloud Migration from Azure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- User Journey Refresh across multiple customer-facing applications and multiple Java, ReactJS, Microservices projects
Responsibilities:
- Define and own the enterprise target-state architecture across business, application, data, and technology layers
- Ensure alignment of program initiatives with enterprise strategy, business capabilities, and roadmaps
- Drive architectural decisions that balance agility, scalability, cost, and risk
- Establish enterprise architecture governance, standards, and decision frameworks
- Review and approve solution and platform architectures across all streams
- Resolve cross-domain and cross-stream architectural conflicts
- Define enterprise cloud strategy with emphasis on GCP as the target platform
- Guide Azure to GCP migration from an enterprise architecture perspective
- Define principles for cloud security, networking, identity, data, and cost optimization
- Define enterprise integration patterns, API strategies, and data flow standards
- Ensure consistency and reuse across platforms and projects
- Partner with senior business leaders, IT leadership, and the onsite Program Manager
- Act as a trusted architectural advisor to executive stakeholders
- Facilitate architecture forums, design reviews, and decision-making sessions
- Ensure enterprise-wide adherence to security, privacy, and regulatory requirements
- Identify and mitigate systemic architectural risks
- Ensure resiliency, availability, and disaster recovery strategies are in place