Director, Enterprise Architecture & Digital Enablement

Elliott Davis

Chattanooga (TN)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Generous time off

Flexible schedules

Wellness benefits

Professional coaching

Leadership programs

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Job summary

Elliott Davis in Chattanooga, Tennessee seeks an experienced Director of Enterprise Architecture & Digital Enablement to lead the firm’s architecture capability, guide transformation programs, and align technology strategy with business goals.

This hands-on leadership role starts as an individual contributor, then grows to develop architecture and digital delivery capabilities, working with executives, service lines, and operations to simplify processes and modernize platforms.

Qualifications

10+ years of progressive technology leadership experience.
Experience leading enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.
Strong background in enterprise applications, integrations, modernization, and architecture.
Experience partnering with executives and business leaders.
Familiarity with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Fabric, Copilot, and modern SaaS ecosystems.

Responsibilities

Establish and lead the firm’s architecture function.
Support the enterprise technology roadmap.
Create adaptive architecture standards, reference architectures, and governance processes.
Evaluate emerging technologies and make strategic recommendations.
Drive application rationalization, simplification, and modernization efforts.
Reduce technical debt and improve long‑term platform sustainability.
Partner with business leaders to understand operational challenges and opportunities.
Facilitate process simplification, standardization, and modernization initiatives.
Translate business objectives into scalable technology capabilities.
Help define business cases, expected outcomes, and value realization measures.
Serve as a trusted advisor to firm leadership on technology‑enabled transformation.
Establish solution design and architecture review practices.
Improve the consistency, scalability, and supportability of delivered solutions.
Partner with product owners, project managers, developers, analysts, and business stakeholders.
Provide architectural guidance across strategic initiatives.
Establish architecture patterns supporting data, integrations, automation, analytics, and AI.
Ensure technology investments support the firm’s long‑term AI and automation strategy.
Guide architecture decisions involving Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Fabric, Copilot, APIs, OTS solutions, and integration platforms.
Enable scalable and secure data sharing throughout the organization.
Serve as the firm’s principal architect and lead solution advisor.
Refine SLDC processes and tooling.
Mentor developers, analysts, and technical resources to become stronger business‑facing solution architects and consultants.
Build architecture and solution‑thinking capabilities across the IT organization.
Influence technical direction without excessive reliance on organizational hierarchy.
Lead technical discussions with software vendors, implementation partners, and consulting firms.
Establish partner governance and architecture expectations.
Ensure external solutions align with firm standards and long‑term technology strategy.
Leverage partner expertise while maintaining internal ownership of architecture direction.