Enterprise Architect

Jobtailor; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a seasoned Enterprise Architect to lead the development of market and enterprise architecture strategies in alignment with business goals. You will partner with business architects and technology teams to shape capabilities, roadmaps, and governance across the organization.

You will establish target-state architectures, define principles and standards, and advise senior leaders on investments and modernization, data strategy, and AI adoption.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience defining enterprise strategy, governance models, and technology directions aligned to business goals.
• Ability to translate strategy into enterprise capabilities, architecture roadmaps, modernization priorities, and investment recommendations.
• Experience across business, data, application, and technology architecture and transformation initiatives.
• Strong executive communication and relationship management to influence senior leaders.
• Mentoring architects and advancing architecture maturity across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and evolution of market/enterprise architecture strategy.
• Partner with Business Architects to define future-state business capabilities.
• Establish and evolve enterprise target-state architecture aligned to strategy.
• Align capability roadmaps, technology roadmaps, and data strategies into transformation direction.
• Collaborate with Technology Architects to set a technology north star.
• Define and maintain enterprise technology principles, standards, guardrails, and direction.
• Help shape data strategy to support analytics, AI adoption, and growth.
• Serve as trusted advisor to senior leaders shaping strategy and investment priorities.
• Lead enterprise architecture governance for major initiatives and significant changes.

Skills

Enterprise strategy

Governance

Executive influence

Architecture frameworks

Cloud platforms

AI-enabled technologies

Stakeholder management

Roadmapping

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

TOGAF

Cloud platforms

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and evolution of market/enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring the capabilities and investments required to execute Securian’s business strategies are clearly defined and governed.
• Partner with Business Architects to define and evolve future-state business capabilities that support enterprise and market objectives.
• Establish and evolve enterprise target-state architecture aligned to business strategy, market priorities, and long-term enterprise objectives.
• Align business capability roadmaps, technology roadmaps, and data strategies into a cohesive enterprise transformation direction.
• Collaborate with Technology Architects to establish and communicate a clear technology north star that guides enterprise investments, modernization efforts, innovation initiatives, platform evolution, and technology lifecycle decisions.
• Define and maintain enterprise technology principles, standards, architectural guardrails, and strategic technology direction.
• Help shape enterprise data strategy to support growth, operational excellence, analytics, AI adoption, and business innovation.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders, helping shape enterprise strategy, business transformation initiatives, and investment priorities.
• Lead enterprise architecture governance for major initiatives, architecturally significant changes, and non-standard technology decisions.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience defining enterprise strategy, enterprise architecture direction, target-state architectures, governance models, and technology strategies aligned to business objectives.
• Proven ability to translate business strategy into enterprise capabilities, architecture roadmaps, modernization priorities, and investment recommendations.
• Experience working across business architecture, technology architecture, data architecture, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience guiding enterprise-level decision-making involving business capabilities, technology investments, data strategies, and modernization efforts.
• Experience establishing and governing enterprise standards, architectural guardrails, and technology lifecycle strategies.
• Broad knowledge across business architecture, application architecture, data architecture, technology architecture, cloud platforms, AI-enabled technologies, and enterprise governance practices.
• Strong executive communication and relationship management skills with demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive enterprise-wide alignment.
• Proven ability to facilitate complex trade-off discussions and guide strategic decisions balancing business value, risk, cost, innovation, and sustainability.
• Experience mentoring architects, engineers, and technical leaders while advancing organizational architecture maturity.