Director, Enterprise, Architecture & Governance

DC Water; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

DC Water is seeking a Director of Enterprise, Architecture & Governance to lead the strategy, modernization, and governance of the enterprise technology environment. The role sets architecture standards, drives a unified platform strategy, and ensures investments align with organizational priorities and resilience goals.

The incumbent chairs the Enterprise Architecture Committee, overseeing approvals for enterprise technologies and guiding migration milestones across Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience with enterprise architecture, ERP/EAM platforms, integration strategy, governance, and large-scale business transformation in complex, regulated environments.
• At least 7 years of management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent with 14 years' overall enterprise architecture experience and 7 years in leadership.

Responsibilities

• Establishes and evolves enterprise architecture vision, standards, and roadmaps aligned to strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Chairs Enterprise Architecture Committee; owns approval processes for technologies deployed enterprise-wide.
• Leads platform rationalization across Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP CCS/AMR, IBM Maximo, ArcGIS, and legacy systems.
• Develops and enforces IT governance frameworks and serves as architecture authority for critical investments.
• Mentors architects and leads centers of excellence to sustain long-term modernization programs.

Skills

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Cybersecurity architecture & standards

Stakeholder communication & influence

Enterprise architecture & governance

Vendor management

ERP/EAM platforms

Data integration & analytics

Regulatory compliance knowledge (NERC,

Leadership & team development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering / Business Admin

Equivalent combination of education and experience (14 years total, 7 years management)

Job description

The Director, Enterprise, Architecture & Governance leads the strategy, modernization, and governance of DC Water’s enterprise technology environment. This executive role establishes architecture standards, drives a unified platform strategy, and ensures technology investments align with organizational priorities and operational objectives. Serving as the bridge between strategy and execution, the Director oversees enterprise architecture and technology governance, including REQ-0 and REQ-1 reviews. The role leads platform rationalization across Oracle, SAP, IBM Maximo, ArcGIS, and operational technologies, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and compliant. As Chair of the Enterprise Architecture Committee, the Director serves as the technology decision authority, aligning investments with enterprise standards, critical infrastructure resilience, and the IT Strategy and Roadmap.

• Establishes and evolves multi-year enterprise architecture vision, roadmap, and standards aligned with DC Water's strategic objectives (Blueprint 2.0), regulatory requirements (EPA, NERC CIP, Clean Water Act), and operational resilience goals.
• Chairs Enterprise Architecture Committee; owns approval process and exception handling for all technologies being deployed enterprise-wide.
• Leads platform rationalization strategy; reviews and defines core architecture around identified solutions (Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP), SAP (CCS/AMR), IBM Maximo, ArcGIS, and legacy systems under a unified ecosystem roadmap with clearly identified migration milestones.
• Establishes and enforces IT governance frameworks, and serves as architecture authority for technology investments critical to infrastructure resilience.
• Develops enterprise architecture standards, patterns, and reference architectures that embed security, NERC CIP/EPA/NIST compliance, and operational technology (SCADA/ICS) requirements.
• Develops and implements an enterprise architecture repository for standard templates, solutions, and approaches for use by the greater organization.
• Partners with Operations, Engineering, and Finance leadership to translate business requirements into actionable technical architecture and capital investment priorities.
• Designs technology consolidation roadmap addressing transition from legacy, monolithic systems to cloud-native, modular, resilient architectures; demonstrates ROI through rationalization.
• Establishes enterprise data governance strategy and data architecture to support consolidation planning, prevent data silos, and enable business intelligence and predictive analytics.
• Deploys a data integration layer with unified schema mapping, quality assurance frameworks, and lineage tracking to eliminate data silos and establish authoritative reference datasets across the enterprise.
• Provides technology leadership for critical infrastructure modernization, including SCADA/ICS security, resilience, network segmentation, and enterprise integration.
• Collaborates with the Vice-President of Security, Governance & Compliance to embed cybersecurity, data protection, and regulatory compliance into all architecture decisions.
• Mentors and develops architects and technical leads; establishes architecture centers of excellence to sustain long-term modernization programs.
• Supports Blue Drop's technology requirements, ensuring architecture enables commercial service delivery and governance clarity.
• Performs other duties and projects as assigned at the discretion of the Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice-President.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Directs a group of consultants and employees to ensure the enterprise architecture program and objectives are met.

Key Working Relationships: Interacts with Senior and Executive Level Staff members and employees throughout the Authority and representatives from other utilities and other government organizations and agencies.

Skills & Qualifications:

The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability necessary for an individual to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. Reasonable amounts of training are provided.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Required Experience:

• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience with enterprise architecture, ERP/EAM platforms, integration strategy, governance, vendor management, and large-scale business transformation across complex, mission-critical, and regulated environments, including at least seven (7) years of management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related technical field or the equivalent combination of education and experience, consisting of a high school diploma or General Educational Development (GED) certificate and a minimum of fourteen (14) years of experience with enterprise architecture, ERP/EAM platforms, integration strategy, governance, vendor management, and large-scale business transformation across complex, mission-critical, and regulated environments, including at least seven (7) years of management experience.

Required Skills:

• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS and/or Microsoft Azure) including migration patterns, hybrid architectures, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity architecture, critical infrastructure security standards (NERC CIP, NIST, ISO & SOC2 frameworks), and secure systems design principles.
• Ability to manage stakeholder communication across technical and non-technical audiences; demonstrated ability to influence across organizational functions without direct authority.
• Demonstrated expertise in enterprise technology architecture spanning ERP/CIS platforms, asset and operational technology (OT) systems, hybrid cloud infrastructure, integration and data management solutions, cybersecurity and regulatory compliance frameworks, and enterprise architecture governance tools.
• Understanding of utility operations, regulated industry requirements, public sector finance and procurement, and IT financial management.
• Enterprise-scale technology partnership negotiation and lifecycle management experience.