What are the responsibilities and job description for the Enterprise Architect position at WorkNovas LLC?
Job Title: Enterprise Architect
Location: Issaquah, WA (Hybrid – Onsite 3 days/week)
Duration: 6–12 Months Contract
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to provide strategic architectural leadership for a large-scale digital transformation program. The ideal candidate will define the enterprise architecture roadmap, guide cloud transformation initiatives, and ensure alignment between technology solutions and business objectives.
Program Initiatives
- Mobile Application Development & Enhancements
- Cloud Migration from Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- User Journey Refresh across multiple customer-facing applications
- Multiple enterprise projects involving Java, ReactJS, and Microservices
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the enterprise target-state architecture across business, application, data, and technology domains.
- Align enterprise architecture with business strategy, capabilities, and long-term technology roadmaps.
- Drive architectural decisions that balance scalability, agility, security, cost optimization, and risk.
- Establish enterprise architecture governance, standards, best practices, and decision frameworks.
- Review and approve solution architectures across multiple workstreams.
- Resolve cross-functional and cross-platform architectural challenges.
- Lead enterprise cloud strategy with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the target environment.
- Provide architectural leadership for Azure to GCP migration initiatives.
- Define enterprise standards for cloud security, networking, identity management, data architecture, and cost optimization.
- Establish enterprise integration patterns, API strategies, and data flow standards.
- Partner with business executives, IT leadership, and program managers to deliver strategic initiatives.
- Lead architecture review boards, design sessions, and executive-level discussions.
- Ensure compliance with security, privacy, governance, and regulatory requirements.
- Identify and mitigate enterprise-level architectural risks.
- Define and promote high availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
Required Skills
- Extensive experience as an Enterprise Architect leading enterprise-wide transformation programs.
- Strong background in cloud architecture, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Experience with Azure to GCP migration strategies.
- Expertise in Enterprise Architecture frameworks, governance, and technology roadmaps.
- Strong knowledge of Java, Microservices, ReactJS, APIs, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Experience leading architecture across multiple concurrent projects and technology teams.