Enterprise Architect || Houston, TX || Onsite

Position: Enterprise Architect Engineering & Quality

Location: Houston, TX (Onsite)

Duration: Contract

Job Description

Required Skills & Experience

Core Experience

• 15 years across Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, or Quality Engineering roles
• 5 years in Enterprise or Large-Scale Architecture roles within consulting/service environments
• Proven experience in client-facing and onsite advisory roles

Enterprise Architecture Expertise

• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
• Experience defining enterprise-wide architecture strategy and governance models
• Strong experience in application landscape management and transformation

Engineering Architecture Expertise

• Deep experience in:
  • Distributed systems and microservices architecture
  • API-led integration and event-driven architectures
  • CI/CD and DevOps ecosystems
• Strong grounding in modern engineering practices and platform design

Quality Engineering Expertise (Differentiator)

• Extensive experience in:
  • Enterprise QE frameworks and automation strategies
  • Continuous testing and quality engineering transformation
  • Performance, security, and resilience testing
• Ability to integrate QE seamlessly into enterprise architecture

Consulting & Stakeholder Skills

• Strong stakeholder management across business and IT leadership
• Ability to influence without authority in complex enterprise environments
• Experience in:
  • RFPs, proposals, and deal shaping
  • Executive presentations and architecture reviews

Preferred Skills / Certifications

• Domain exposure to enterprise platforms:
  • ERP (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite)
  • CRM ecosystems
  • Integration platforms like MuleSoft
• Cloud certifications (Azure/AWS)
• Enterprise architecture certifications (TOGAF preferred)
• Exposure to DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering practices.