Enterprise Architect

Pyramid Consulting, Inc; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Enterprise Architect to join their innovative team in Atlanta. This fulltime opportunity offers long-term potential in a hybrid work environment. You will play a pivotal role in shaping technology decisions, driving digital innovation, and ensuring compliance with architectural standards. If you are passionate about leveraging your extensive experience in enterprise architecture to influence business strategies and lead technological advancements, this role is perfect for you. Join a leading utility industry firm where your contributions will make a significant impact on the future of technology in the sector.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture for large organizations.
• Strong leadership and consulting skills with a focus on teamwork and negotiation.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business strategies to define technology requirements and models.
• Drive digital innovation and develop technology roadmaps.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Leadership Skills

Consulting Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Communication Skills

Cloud Platforms Knowledge

Software Development Life Cycle

Education

Bachelor’s degree in MIS

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Enterprise Architecture Tools

Modeling Languages

Job description

Job ID: 25-60647

Pay Range: $140,000.00/yr - $143,000.00/yr

Immediate need for a talented Enterprise Architect. This is a Fulltime opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Atlanta, GA (Hybrid).

Key Responsibilities:

• Works with business partners to analyze strategy and trends to define the requirements, principles, and models that guide technology decisions.
• Communicates and enforces technology standards with business partners.
• Understands industry trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies.
• Drives digital innovation and develops roadmaps through new technologies and approaches to fulfill strategic business plans.
• Defines high-level migration plans to address gaps in current state architecture.
• Coaches, mentors, and leads technical subject matters experts to enable and drive consistency across technology architectures.
• Consults with project solution architects to ensure projects are leveraging best and most appropriate supported and preferred architecture patterns.
• Designs and owns governance, assurance, and standards activities for the overall enterprise technology architecture and its compliance.
• Reviews and helps govern the viability of individual project technical designs based on their compliance with published corporate IT architecture standards.
• Oversees and facilitates the evaluation, risk assessment, selection, and design of hardware and software technology and product standards.
• Delivers technology architecture artifacts, possibly including reference architectures or concepts of operation.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum 10+ years’ experience in architecture.
• Proven experience (10+ years) working as an Enterprise Architect or in a similar role, designing and implementing enterprise architecture plans for large-scale organizations.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap that align with business objectives and support the organization's mission.
• Define and enforce architecture standards, principles, guidelines, and best practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and flexibility across all IT systems and applications.
• Effective leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business analysis.
• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.
• Comfortable, experienced, and accomplished at working with business executives, and able to push back in a professional and diplomatic way.
• Strong understanding and experience implementing enterprise architecture frameworks, methodologies, and best practices.
• Knowledge of cloud-based data and processing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), big data analytics tools, and machine learning concepts.
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data challenges and design innovative and scalable solutions.
• Proficiency in enterprise architecture tools, modeling languages, and documentation standards.
• Coach and mentor other architects, application owners/managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking.
• A deep, comprehensive knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and development principles.
• Interest in and passion for learning and working in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to handle multiple assignments and conflicting priorities.
• Ability to work with business partners and peers of varying levels of technical proficiency.
• Advanced understanding of various technical principles, theories and concepts.
• Broad understanding of a wide range of technical areas.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to translate complex or technical ideas into non-technical language.

Our client is a leading Utility Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar fulltime positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.