What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Enterprise Architecture position at Soni?
Reporting to the VP of Information Technology, the Director of Enterprise Architecture is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving the organization’s enterprise-wide technology architecture. This role ensures alignment between business strategy, processes, and technology to drive scalability, reliability, security, and performance. The Director provides strategic leadership across IT, partners with executive stakeholders, and leads architecture, automation, and AI teams.
Key Responsibilities
Compensation is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture standards, frameworks, and roadmaps aligned to business and IT strategy
- Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies (e.g., Cloud, AI, Automation) to enhance systems and operational efficiency
- Establish and enforce governance, compliance, and security-by-design practices; lead architecture review processes
- Define and manage short- and long-term architecture roadmaps, ensuring integration across applications, data, platforms, and infrastructure
- Oversee operational performance, KPIs, budgets, and vendor relationships, including SLAs and contract deliverables
- Partner with IT leadership on project prioritization, resource planning, and RFPs
- Act as a change agent driving continuous improvement and innovation
- Lead, mentor, and develop internal and external architecture, automation, and AI resources
- Collaborate across domestic and international business entities to drive technology efficiencies
- Strong knowledge of enterprise technologies including ERP/SaaS, cloud architecture, APIs/web services, MDM, modern web frameworks, object-oriented languages (e.g., Java, C#), and application monitoring tools
- Deep understanding of site reliability principles, SLAs, security, and operational excellence
- Proven senior IT leadership experience with a track record of executing complex technology strategies
- Experience managing $1M budgets and vendor relationships
- Executive-level communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences
- Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 12–15 years of relevant IT experience, including 5 years in progressive technical leadership roles
Compensation is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications.