Enterprise Architect

White & Case LLP; New York; Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal Employment Opportunity

Competitive benefits

401(k) retirement savings

Job summary

White & Case LLP is seeking an Enterprise Architect to align business strategy, processes, data, applications, and technology to support enterprise goals. You will lead architecture governance, design integrated solutions, and collaborate with governance teams across the organization.

The role emphasizes evaluating emerging technologies, vendor solutions, and AI-driven opportunities to ensure standards and future-state architecture, with responsibilities spanning data, integration, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 7-10 years of progressive experience in enterprise/solution/systems architecture or related leadership roles.
• Experience with enterprise applications, systems integration, data architecture, and solution design.
• Strong understanding of business capability modeling, application and information architecture, and governance.
• Experience developing architecture artifacts, roadmaps, and integration specifications.
• Knowledge of data governance, lineage, metadata, and information management.
• Experience evaluating vendor technologies and conducting architectural due diligence.
• Familiarity with cloud, APIs, microservices, enterprise integrations, and modern architectures.
• Professional certifications such as TOGAF or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture standards, principles, and target-state architectures.
• Align technology investments with organizational objectives and business capabilities.
• Partner with leaders to develop strategic roadmaps and architectural direction.
• Maintain enterprise-wide visibility of applications, technologies, processes, integrations, and data assets.
• Participate in governance processes to ensure initiatives comply with standards and policies.
• Provide architectural reviews and recommendations throughout project lifecycles.
• Design and review enterprise solutions addressing current and future requirements.
• Lead integration architecture and define data flows and interface patterns.
• Maintain the enterprise integration repository and artifact catalog.
• Collaborate with data governance teams to improve data quality and compliance.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Systems architecture

Data governance

Data lineage

Cloud platforms

APIs

Microservices

Enterprise governance

Stakeholder engagement

Architecture reviews

Vendor evaluations

TOGAF (certifications)

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Technology, or a related field

Tools

Azure

TOGAF

API Management

Job description

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for aligning business strategy, processes, data, applications, and technology to support the organization's strategic objectives. This role serves as a key advisor and governance partner to business and technology stakeholders, ensuring that new initiatives, systems, and solutions are architected in a way that promotes business value, minimizes risk, maximizes reuse, and supports long-term enterprise goals.

The Enterprise Architect leads solution and integration design activities, validates technology demands, oversees information and data architecture practices, and collaborates with governance teams to ensure data quality, lineage, compliance, and architectural consistency across the enterprise. The role also plays a critical part in evaluating emerging technologies, vendor solutions, business roadmaps, and AI-related capabilities to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and future-state architecture.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture standards, principles, and target-state architectures

• Align technology investments, business capabilities, processes, and data assets with organizational objectives

• Partner with business and technology leaders to develop strategic roadmaps and architectural direction

• Maintain enterprise-wide visibility of applications, technologies, processes, integrations, and data assets

Demand Evaluation & Governance

• Evaluate new business and technology demands to confirm strategic alignment and eliminate duplication of capabilities or solutions.

• Participate in governance processes to ensure initiatives comply with enterprise standards, policies, and architectural principles.

• Provide architectural reviews and recommendations throughout project lifecycles

• Support PMO and governance activities through defined work breakdown structures, controls, and accountability models

Solution Architecture

• Design and review enterprise solutions that address both current and future business requirements.

• Ensure solutions adequately represent stakeholder needs, operational requirements, scalability, resiliency, security, and maintainability.

Integration Architecture

• Lead integration architecture and interface design activities across enterprise systems.

• Create integration specifications that reduce implementation risk and encourage reuse of existing services and capabilities.

• Maintain and evolve the enterprise integration repository and interface inventory.

• Define data flows, interfaces, and integration patterns supporting enterprise interoperability.

Information & Data Architecture

• Establish and maintain information architecture standards and data models.

• Ensure consistent use of enterprise data definitions, business rules, and governance policies.

• Support conceptual and logical data modeling activities.

• Define and govern data mappings, lineage, and system-to-system information flows.

• Collaborate with Data Governance and Information Governance teams to improve data quality, ownership, transparency, and compliance.

Architecture Repository Management

• Maintain enterprise architecture repositories documenting systems, applications, technologies, integrations, processes, ownership, and dependencies.

• Track technology lifecycles, including systems in planning, development, active use, deprecation, and retirement.

• Document critical application attributes, ownership, classifications, vendor information, technical debt, service dependencies, and architectural relationships.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with business leaders, product owners, project teams, developers, data governance teams, and vendors.

• Communicate architectural decisions, standards, and recommendations effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Facilitate architecture reviews, workshops, and design sessions.

• Provide thought leadership regarding emerging technologies, business capabilities, and AI-driven opportunities.

• Assess solution feasibility and recommend appropriate architectural approaches.

• Review and challenge vendor-provided architectures and designs to identify risks, gaps, and required mitigations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Technology, or a related field.

• Minimum 7-10 years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, systems architecture, or related technology leadership roles.

• Demonstrated experience with enterprise applications, systems integration, data architecture, and solution design.

• Strong understanding of business capability modeling, application architecture, information architecture, and enterprise technology governance.

• Experience developing architecture artifacts, roadmaps, conceptual models, and integration specifications.

• Knowledge of data governance, data lineage, metadata management, and information management practices.

• Experience evaluating vendor technologies and conducting architectural due diligence.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, enterprise integrations, and modern application architectures.

• Professional certifications such as TOGAF, Certified Enterprise Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or comparable certifications are preferred.

The New York and Washington DC hiring range is $133,600 - $$200,400.

This role reports to

Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture

Equal Opportunities

White & Case is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm's policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

Benefits at White & Case

White & Case LLP offers a comprehensive suite of benefit programs to all eligible employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability coverage, 401(k) retirement savings, vacation time, and leave programs (including parental leave). Exempt roles are also performance bonus eligible.

The Firm may modify and amend any job description at any time in its sole discretion. Nothing herein creates a contract of employment or otherwise modifies the at-will nature of employment.

The above is only a general description of the essential duties associated with this position and does not represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties.