Enterprise Architect, Digital & AI

andersonsinc; Maumee (OH); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Andersons is seeking an Enterprise Architect to define and maintain the organization's architecture framework, ensuring technology strategy aligns with business goals. You will influence stakeholders and drive enterprise-wide design principles across digital and AI initiatives.

Lead architecture direction, develop roadmaps, and promote reusable patterns while collaborating with security, data, and engineering teams to accelerate value realization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Master's degree preferred for advanced roles.
• 7–10 years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture or a closely related field.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy, standards, and roadmap for digital platforms, apps, portals, integrations, automation, and AI capabilities.
• Provide architecture leadership across the full solution lifecycle, ensuring digital and AI solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with priorities.
• Translate business needs into practical architecture direction with target-state designs and transition architectures.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns, reference designs, templates, and design-review practices to improve consistency and governance.
• Guide AI platform and application architecture including embeddings, vector search, model integration, and observability.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/IT or related field

Master's Degree preferred

Job description

As a North American leader in agribusiness and renewable fuels, The Andersons operates in a unique space, bringing together agriculture, energy, and global markets. From the farm to customers around the world, we help move food, feed, and fuel where it's needed most.

Our business spans the full value chain, which means the work we do directly supports farmers, customers, and communities every day. Whether it's helping producers succeed, delivering essential products, or advancing more sustainable energy solutions, our impact is both local and global.

What truly sets us apart is how we work together. We are a performance-driven, people-powered organization where employees are owners, sharing in our success and helping shape our future. We invest in our team through development opportunities, meaningful career paths, and a culture that encourages growth, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

At the core of everything we do is our Statement of Principles. We are committed to providing extraordinary service to our customers, helping our employees improve, supporting our communities, and increasing the value of the company for our shareholders.

Position Summary

This position is responsible for defining and maintaining the organization's overall architecture framework, ensuring that technology strategy aligns with business objectives. This role provides strategic guidance for technology investments, promotes architectural coherence across systems and processes, and drives innovation through enterprise-level design principles. The Enterprise Architect must have a holistic view of the organization's technology landscape and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy, standards, and roadmap for digital platforms, custom applications, portals, integration touchpoints, automation capabilities, AI-enabled business solutions, and the internal AI development capabilities needed to support them.
• Provide architecture leadership across the full solution lifecycle, ensuring digital and AI solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, cost-effective, and aligned with business priorities, enterprise technology direction, and a supported path from experimentation to production.
• Translate business needs into practical architecture direction by defining target-state designs, transition architectures, platform recommendations, implementation guidance, and developer enablement approaches for product, engineering, and delivery teams.
• Establish and promote reusable architecture patterns, reference designs, shared repositories, templates, starter kits, decision frameworks, and design review practices that improve consistency, quality, governance, and speed of delivery across digital and AI initiatives.
• Guide AI platform and application architecture, including retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings and vector search, agent and orchestration patterns, API-based model integration, hosted and locally run model options, observability, security, privacy, compliance, prompt and context handling, and human-review guardrails.
• Assess current digital and AI capabilities, emerging technologies, models, vendor solutions, platform fit, technical debt, modernization opportunities, and trade-offs across capability, cost, latency, data sensitivity, hosting constraints, and operational support to inform roadmaps, investment decisions, standards, and lifecycle management.
• Build prototypes, reference implementations, and proof-of-concepts to validate architectural choices, reduce delivery risk, demonstrate value, and accelerate adoption of effective digital and AI patterns by application teams.
• Partner closely with business stakeholders, enterprise architecture, engineering, security, data, infrastructure, and leadership teams to align solution direction, resolve architecture tradeoffs, mentor developers, and support enterprise adoption.

What is Expected of You and Others at This Level

• Demonstrates expertise in own area within the organization
• Required specialized depth and/or breadth of experience
• Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends solutions/best practices
• Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify solutions

Competencies Expected of You and Others at This Level

• Balances Stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders
• Business Insight - Applies knowledge of the business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals
• Drives Results - Consistently achieves results, even under challenging circumstances
• Manages Ambiguity - Operates effectively in uncertain or unclear situations
• Organizational Savvy - Maneuvers comfortably through complex policy, process, and people related organizational dynamics

Education and Experience

Bachelor's Degree required in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Master's Degree preferred

7-10 years' relevant