Enterprise Architect

White & Case LLP; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life and disability coverage

401(k) retirement savings

Vacation time

Parental leave

Job summary

White & Case LLP is seeking an Enterprise Architect to align business strategy, processes, data, applications, and technology with the firm’s objectives. The role leads solution and integration design, governs data quality and architecture, and evaluates emerging technologies to ensure architectural consistency across the enterprise.

The position requires 7–10 years of leadership in enterprise/solution architecture, familiarity with cloud platforms and APIs, and TOGAF or equivalent certification

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Design and review enterprise solutions that address current and future business requirements.
• Lead integration architecture and interface design across enterprise systems.
• Define data flows, interfaces, and integration patterns supporting interoperability.
• Establish and maintain information architecture standards and data models.
• 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.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Data governance

Cloud platforms

APIs & microservices

Stakeholder collaboration

Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

TOGAF

Azure

Job description

Technology Services team is integral to maintaining the Firm’s overall technology, mobile and desktop devices, and core infrastructure to ensure reliable, secure and efficient operations. Technology Services is a single global operation with representation in each of the Firm’s offices. Additionally, we have shared service centers in Tampa and Manila, supporting a wide range of technologies and operations. In addition to overseeing critical enterprise systems and providing world‑class client service to our global user community, we are committed to achieving a balance between new and innovative technologies while constantly ensuring data security and compliance with legal and regulatory standards, resulting in realizing value from the latest developments in technology, such as generative artificial intelligence and cloud computing models, while safeguarding sensitive client information against cyber threats and other business interruption events. Technology Services plays a significant role in supporting the Firm’s systems and people.

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

• Design and review enterprise solutions that address both current and future business requirements.
• Ensure solutions adequately represent stakeholder needs, operational requirements, scalability, resilience, 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.

Benefits

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 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.

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Firm Summary

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. With a long history as an international firm, we are well-positioned to help clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may arise. Operating across six continents and working in virtually every country, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality, full-service practice that competes at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in key financial markets and our expertise in handling complex cross-border work. What sets us apart is not just our global network of offices but the interconnectedness of our Firm. Our people and clients value our collaboration across geographic and practice boundaries, which is why we attract and retain significant cross-border work. Representing multiple nationalities from across the world and speaking a vast array of languages, our lawyers and Business Services professionals are globally minded, enterprising, and committed to excellence.

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