
Principal Enterprise Architect
CDW
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $172,000 - $240,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead, mentor, and direct a team of Enterprise Architects developing complex business applications in a software engineering environment.
- Act as the primary strategic liaison between executive business stakeholders and technical leadership to conceptualize, define, and govern overarching system solutions.
- Set the overarching enterprise architecture vision and ensure all solutions align with the broader enterprise architecture framework.
- Represent the EA organization at the executive level for application, data, and infrastructure domain-specific initiatives.
- Define, own, and drive enterprise platform roadmaps, technology lifecycles, and transformational initiatives across a wide and diverse portfolio.
- Establish and enforce overarching standards, models, and guiding principles for future state architecture, organizational structure, business processes, and infrastructure.
- Develop and present comprehensive business cases for high-level initiatives to C-level executives for approval, funding, and prioritization.
- Lead complex M&A technology due diligence and integration planning.
- Lead enterprise-level vendor selection processes and provide strategic recommendations for massive technology investments.
- Support and govern the architecting of cloud-based applications, mobile applications, infrastructure, web services, middleware, and databases needed for the future state platform.
- Ensure compliance between overarching business strategies and enterprise transformation activities.
- Direct business stakeholders to follow enterprise architecture guidance for all projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and 10+ years of Information Technology experience, OR 14+ years of total Information Technology experience.
- 7+ years working as an Enterprise Architect.
- 3+ years of experience directly managing, mentoring, or leading a team of architects or senior technical staff.
- Enterprise Architecture certified or equivalent experience using industry standards e.g. TOGAF.
- Extensive experience developing architectural standards, roadmaps, and enterprise models.
- Proven track record of being an evangelist for a larger strategic vision.
- Deep ability to integrate business and technological vision, connecting the dots across business needs, technologies, processes, and information.
Benefits
- Annual bonus target of 15% subject to terms and conditions of plan
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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise architecturecloud-based applicationsmobile applicationsweb servicesmiddlewaredatabasesarchitectural standardstechnology lifecyclesbusiness applicationsM&A technology due diligence
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringstrategic visioncommunicationstakeholder managementbusiness acumenproblem-solvingpresentation skillscollaborationgovernance
Certifications
Enterprise Architecture certificationTOGAF