Enterprise Architect — Cloud, API & Governance Leader

allegion; Carmel (IN); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

401K with 6% company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Allegion seeks an Enterprise Architect to design and govern our global technology landscape, balancing business goals with scalable, secure solutions. You will guide delivery teams to align with enterprise standards, drive portfolio decisions, and enable modernization across cloud services, data platforms, and integrations.

With 10+ years in enterprise architecture and a strong governance mindset, you will collaborate with stakeholders across global teams, influence architecture decisions, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology related discipline.
• 10+ years of proven experience working within large manufacturing or distribution operations.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, application architecture, or related design roles.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, solution design practices, and architecture governance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive view of enterprise architecture across applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, cloud services, and enterprise technology platforms.
• Provide visibility into the enterprise application and technology portfolio to support lifecycle management, rationalization, modernization, and investment decisions.
• Collaborate on business capability mapping and portfolio analysis to identify opportunities to reduce redundancy, simplify processes, improve customer experience, and increase business and technology alignment.
• Provide architecture guidance across COTS platforms, SaaS solutions, custom applications, APIs, data platforms, and cloud-native services.
• Evaluate commercial off-the-shelf, SaaS, and packaged software options for business fit, integration capability, scalability, security, lifecycle risk, total cost of ownership, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Analyze business processes and recommend system, data, integration, and architecture improvements that support scalable and reusable enterprise solutions.
• Design and guide enterprise architecture reference patterns covering applications, integrations, data, cloud environments, and shared technology capabilities.
• Advise on integration design across systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, observability, data consistency, and security across APIs, middleware, event-driven architecture, and enterprise integration platforms.
• Support adoption of modern architecture practices, including cloud-first, API-first, data-driven design, automation, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Ensure technology solutions align with business strategy, enterprise standards, security requirements, architecture principles, and approved governance processes.
• Lead or contribute to architecture review boards and governance processes by preparing review materials, documenting decisions and exceptions, tracking remediation actions, and promoting reuse of approved standards and patterns.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution design

Cloud platforms

APIs

Security

Governance

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology

Tools

COTS platforms

SaaS

APIs

Cloud services

Job description

Allegion seeks an Enterprise Architect to design and govern our global technology landscape, balancing business goals with scalable, secure solutions. You will guide delivery teams to align with enterprise standards, drive portfolio decisions, and enable modernization across cloud services, data platforms, and integrations.

With 10+ years in enterprise architecture and a strong governance mindset, you will collaborate with stakeholders across global teams, influence architecture decisions, and