Director, Enterprise Architecture

umgc; Adelphi (MD); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

UMGC is seeking a Director of Enterprise Architecture to lead the university's architecture across business, data, applications, technology, security, and integration domains. This hybrid role requires on-site presence in Adelphi, MD, with strategic responsibility for standards, roadmaps, and best-practice governance to enable digital transformations.

The ideal candidate will guide executive leadership, optimize technology investments, and manage architectural teams to reduce risk and debt while

Qualifications

• 7+ years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or related tech leadership roles.
• 5+ years of management experience leading architects.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture strategies, current/future-state architectures, and roadmaps.
• Establish and govern enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, and review processes.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and enterprise platforms for strategic fit.
• Provide architectural oversight for technology initiatives and ensure alignment with standards.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve operational efficiency.
• Provide leadership for incident response and cross-functional collaboration.
• Collaborate with business, cybersecurity, and solution teams to guide technology decisions.
• Assist in developing and refining UMGC technology policies.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

TOGAF/Zachman

Cloud architecture

APIs & SOA

Governance

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Roadmap planning

Digital transformation

Education

IT/CS/IS degree

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

TOGAF

Zachman

Gartner/FEAF frameworks

Job description

Director, Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture, Data, & Integrations

US Exempt Regular

Full time

Stateside Exempt 4.5

Director, Enterprise Architecture

Central IT Admin

Exempt Regular 4.5

Location: Adelphi, MD (Hybrid; on-site presence required)

The Director, Enterprise Architecture is responsible for developing, maintaining, and governing the university's enterprise architecture framework to ensure technology investments align with institutional strategy, business objectives, and operational priorities. This role provides architectural leadership across business, application, data, technology, cybersecurity, and integration domains while establishing architecture standards, working across teams to compile the overall technology roadmap, and target-state architectures that support innovation, scalability, security, and operational excellence. The Director serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership and technology teams, enabling digital transformation initiatives while reducing complexity, technical debt, and organizational risk.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Roadmap Development. Develop and maintain enterprise architecture strategies, current-state and future-state architectures, technology roadmaps, and architectural standards that align with institutional goals and strategic priorities.
• Enterprise Technology Governance, Standards, & Investment. Establish and govern enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, policies, standards, and review processes to ensure consistency, interoperability, security, and scalability across the technology portfolio. Responsible for the enterprise architecture budget and advising on enterprise technology investments.
• Technology Evaluation & Strategic Advisory. Evaluate emerging technologies, enterprise platforms, cloud services, and digital transformation opportunities while providing strategic recommendations to executive leadership and governance committees.
• Solution Review & Project Oversight. Provide architectural oversight for enterprise technology initiatives, reviewing solution designs and ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, target architectures, and business objectives.
• Enterprise Optimization & Risk Management. Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, eliminate redundant technologies, improve operational efficiency, and mitigate technology, cybersecurity, and compliance risks.
• Incident & Problem Management Leadership. Provide team leadership for major incident response, escalation management, and operational resilience. Oversee on-call readiness and coverage for critical off-hours support; partner with incident manager on post-incident reviews, root cause analysis, and problem management.
• Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement. Collaborate with business leaders, cybersecurity teams, solution architects, infrastructure teams, and application teams to drive enterprise-wide alignment, support architecture governance, and guide technology decision-making.
• Technology Policy Advisory. Assist the Information Technology Policy Administrator with UMGC technology policy development and refinement.

Competencies :

• Strategic leadership and enterprise thinking
• Business and technology alignment
• Systems thinking and architectural design
• Analytical and critical thinking
• Governance and decision-making
• Communication and executive presence
• Collaboration and stakeholder management
• Risk management and compliance awareness
• Influencing without direct authority
• Innovation and continuous improvement
• Change leadership and organizational alignment
• Results orientation and accountability

Skills :

• Enterprise architecture strategy development and roadmap planning
• Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF, Gartner, or similar)
• Business capability modeling and value stream analysis
• Application, data, technology, and security architecture
• Cloud architecture and hybrid infrastructure strategy
• Enterprise integration, APIs, middleware, and service-oriented architecture
• Architecture governance and review board facilitation
• Technology portfolio rationalization and technical debt management
• Architecture modeling, documentation, and repository management
• Risk assessment and mitigation planning
• Executive communication and presentation skills
• Digital transformation and modernization planning
• Vendor evaluation and technology assessment
• Strategic planning and technology investment analysis

Education & Experience Requirements :

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Business Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience).

Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, infrastructure architecture, application architecture, or related technology leadership roles.
• 5+ years of management experience leading architects in the