Enterprise Architect

Farm Credit; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Farm Credit is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to shape technology strategy and align it with the business vision. You will establish standards, develop current and future-state models, and guide solution delivery to meet evolving needs.

You will lead governance efforts, mentor teams, and collaborate with business owners to balance innovation with sustainable technology solutions, across multiple domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in MIS/CS/Data Science or related field.
• 10+ years of related IT experience in at least two disciplines including architecture, data, security, or operations.
• Experience designing enterprise architectures and governance for multiple domains.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise technology architecture objectives, standards, and guidelines.
• Provide guidance to Solution Architects and Lead Developers to ensure policy-compliant delivery.
• Develop current and future-state architecture models aligned with business goals.
• Lead governance activities and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure compliance.
• Mentor team members and partner with business owners to balance features with sustainable solutions.
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams to evaluate technology solutions against business needs.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Leadership

Governance

Agile development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in MIS/CS/Data Science or related field

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to help shape and align our technology strategy with the company’s business vision. In this role, you’ll establish enterprise architecture standards and guidelines, develop current and future-state architecture models, and create a holistic approach across technologies. You’ll collaborate with architecture and technology partners to evaluate solutions and ensure our technology environment supports the organization’s evolving business needs and goals.

• Define enterprise technology architecture objectives and establish associated policies, standards, and guidelines. Provide guidance to Solution Architects and Lead Solution Developers to ensure solutions are delivered in accordance with established policies, standards, and guidelines. Propose and champion architectural improvements and redesigns. Participate in holistic IT architecture planning to support future organizational needs. Develop current state and future-state architecture models that support the organization’s strategies and goals.
• Design a holistic architecture approach across all technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, and business requirements. Identify the organizational and financial impacts and benefits of solution architecture. Document enterprise architecture designs.
• Monitor the currentstate solutions and identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements. Understands technology trends and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models. Ensures application portfolio is maintained.
• Provide design leadership and mentorship to team members involved in solution delivery. Partner with business owners to balance desired system features with the need for sustainable technology solutions. Collaborate with solution delivery teams to champion development architecture, coding standards, and security standards. Advocate for agile and pragmatic development practices.
• Collaborate with other architecture roles to define principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns that align technology decisions with the enterprise’s future-state architecture vision. Design and lead governance activities to ensure solution architecture, assurance and compliance. Partner with project teams and organizational leadership to ensure effective execution of architecture plans.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and functional teams to evaluate technology solutions that meet business needs and align with the organization’s technology architecture. Develop proposals and estimates for the design and implementation of technology solutions.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, or related field is require.

Years of Experience

• 10+ years’ related experience in at least two IT solutions development disciplines, including solutions architecture, technical architecture, network management, applications development, data management, IT operations, or security.