Job Title: Enterprise Architect Director

About the Role:

The Enterprise Architect Director directs the development and application of enterprise architecture best practices, architecture patterns, and playbooks within the company and client organizations. Serves as a trusted advisor, leads the design of innovative solutions and enterprise architecture engagements, and ensures quality project execution by monitoring team performance and adjusting resources as needed. Leads the design of strategy formulation and the mentoring and development of team members to enhance technical capabilities and expertise.

Enterprise Architecture Leadership

• Provide enterprise architecture leadership, guidance, and governance on the design of solutions across all architecture domains and technology standards.
• Lead the development of enterprise-wide architecture and processes, enterprise architecture visions, strategies, and roadmaps, architecture patterns, and the creation and review of an enterprise capability strategy and policies to support the strategic requirements of the company and its clients.
• Enforce application of enterprise architecture best practices on the design of solutions across all architecture domains and technology standards to ensure Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization.
• Lead enterprise architecture engagements with client executives and define architecture for enterprise engagements.
• Lead the architecture team members to translate them into effective architectural strategies.

Solution Development and Delivery

• Contribute to the development of organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for the effective and efficient application of system design and integration, database design, data modeling and design, and requirements definition and management activities.

Requirements

• Graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or any related course; MBA or equivalent graduate degree is a plus.
• At least 15 years of experience in building and designing technical solutions in a wide range of architecture domains such as business, application, integration, infrastructure, cloud, and data for IT, Retail, BFSI, Healthcare, or other large enterprises.
• At least 5 years spent leading a technology team in designing and implementing large IT and/or digital transformation projects.

Extensive knowledge, proven hands-on experience, and expertise in the following:

• Advising on Technology Strategy, focusing on areas like Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Data, and Security.
• Architectural positions demonstrating proficiency across various technical stack layers (UI/B2C, Applications, Integration, Data, Infrastructure/Cloud, etc.).
• Cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and proficiency in cloud-native architectures, microservices, containers, and serverless computing.
• Strategic enterprise architecture engagement skills with executive-level stakeholders.
• Architecture frameworks, methodologies, and best practices (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman). Must be TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect or equivalent.
• Enterprise architecture governance, including establishing and enforcing architecture standards and policies.
• Hands-on experience and knowledge in complex database concepts and technical stacks, tools, platforms, frameworks, and languages mentioned in Mid SolArch qualifications.
• DevOps and cybersecurity best practices and implementation.

Skills

• Must have a sense of ownership and pride in performance and its impact on the company’s success.
• Extensive leadership experience, including managing and developing high-performing architecture teams.
• Excellent understanding of client challenges and how to develop solutions for digital transformation.
• Exceptional presentation skills, with the ability to convey technology and business value propositions.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives concurrently.