Enterprise Architect

NCS Philippines; Taguig; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NCS Philippines is seeking an Enterprise Architect to define, govern, and evolve the enterprise architecture blueprint to align business strategy with technology execution. You will establish principles, standards, and guardrails to enable scalable, secure, cost-effective solutions across domains.

You will work with leaders, solution architects, and delivery teams to shape target-state architectures, guide modernization, and ensure consistency across platforms, data, and integration landscapes.

Qualifications

• Experience defining and governing enterprise architecture principles, standards, and guardrails.
• Experience with Architecture Review Boards and architecture governance forums.
• Experience developing architecture artifacts such as reference architectures, standards, patterns, and architectural decision records.
• Experience defining current-state and target-state architectures aligned to business priorities.
• Experience conducting gap analysis and developing architecture roadmaps and migration plans.
• Experience with cloud architectures across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.
• Experience with API-first and integration-led design approaches.
• Experience ensuring architecture designs align with security, privacy, and compliance requirements.
• Ability to translate architectural risks, trade-offs, and technical debt into business implications.
• Ability to provide thought leadership and mentoring on architecture best practices.

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and govern enterprise architecture principles, standards, and guardrails across business, application, data, integration, and technology domains.
• Participate in or support Architecture Review Boards and architecture governance forums to ensure solution conformance across delivery lifecycles.
• Establish architecture assurance checkpoints across concept, high-level design, and low-level design stages to identify risks and gaps.
• Develop and maintain core architecture artifacts such as reference architectures, standards, patterns, architectural decision records, and solution designs.
• Define current-state and target-state architectures aligned to business priorities and long-term technology strategy.
• Conduct gap analysis and support multi-year architecture roadmaps and migration plans.
• Define and promote reference architectures and reusable patterns for cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, and data-centric solutions.
• Guide modernization of core applications and legacy systems through decoupling and domain-aligned design.
• Define target architectures for customer-facing, internal, and operational platforms to enable scalable digital experiences.
• Work closely with solution architects, engineering teams, and stakeholders to guide architectural decision-making.

Skills

Architecture governance

Cloud architecture

API-first design

Security compliance

Enterprise architecture

Roadmapping

Stakeholder mentoring

Job description

About the role

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise architecture blueprint to ensure alignment between business strategy and technology execution. The role establishes architecture principles, standards, and guardrails that enable scalable, secure, cost-effective, and high-performing technology solutions across the organization. The Enterprise Architect works closely with business leaders, solution architects, and delivery teams to shape target-state architectures, guide modernization initiatives, and ensure architectural consistency across platforms, applications, data, and integration domains.

Key responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and govern enterprise architecture principles, standards, and guardrails across business, application, data, integration, and technology domains
• Participate in or support Architecture Review Boards and architecture governance forums to ensure solution conformance across delivery lifecycles
• Establish architecture assurance checkpoints across concept, high-level design, and low-level design stages to proactively identify risks and gaps
• Develop and maintain core architecture artifacts such as reference architectures, standards, patterns, architectural decision records, and solution designs
• Define current-state and target-state architectures aligned to business priorities and long-term technology strategy
• Conduct gap analysis and support the development of multi-year architecture roadmaps and migration plans
• Define and promote reference architectures and reusable patterns for cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, and data-centric solutions
• Guide the modernization of core applications and legacy systems through decoupling, domain-aligned design, and progressive migration approaches
• Define target architectures for customer-facing, internal, and operational platforms to enable scalable and consistent digital experiences
• Work closely with solution architects, engineering teams, and stakeholders to guide architectural decision-making

About you

• Experience defining and governing enterprise architecture principles, standards, and guardrails
• Experience with Architecture Review Boards and architecture governance forums
• Experience developing architecture artifacts such as reference architectures, standards, patterns, and architectural decision records
• Experience defining current-state and target-state architectures aligned to business priorities
• Experience conducting gap analysis and developing architecture roadmaps and migration plans
• Experience with cloud architectures across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments
• Experience with API-first and integration-led design approaches
• Experience ensuring architecture designs align with security, privacy, and compliance requirements
• Ability to translate architectural risks, trade-offs, and technical debt into clear business implications
• Ability to provide thought leadership and mentoring on architecture best practices