Enterprise Architect - Onsite

ImagineX; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ImagineX, a Columbus-based tech company, seeks a Senior Architect to design and codify enterprise standards for across domains, delivering editable reference architectures and conformance checklists. You will lead governance reviews, map dependencies between standards, and partner with the ImagineX architects to incorporate feedback, ensuring templates and style guides meet engineering needs.

Candidates bring hands-on senior architecture experience across application, integration, data,

Qualifications

• Proven track record writing enterprise architecture standards, principles, or policies for large organizations.
• Strong technical writing: clear, consistent, and usable by engineering teams.
• Experience producing reference architectures and diagrams in editable, maintainable formats.
• Experience running architecture reviews or governance processes.

Responsibilities

• Design the standards template and style guide, and write a sample standard for [Company]'s approval
• Build the standards catalog, map dependencies between standards, and propose an authoring sequence
• Research, write, and publish one standard per topic area across all six domains
• Create diagrams and reference architectures, and deliver them as editable source files
• Write a conformance checklist for each standard to support architecture reviews
• Run walkthrough sessions per domain with the architecture team, and provide recordings and materials
• Produce a maintenance guide covering how to update, version, and retire standards
• Work with ImagineX architects and stakeholders to review drafts and incorporate feedback

Skills

Enterprise architecture writing

Technical writing

Architecture governance

Reference architectures

Job description

ImagineX Digital is a tech company that deploys AI-assisted teams to build and secure mission-critical enterprise solutions with our clients - spanning software, data, and AI. Structured like a software company, not a traditional consultancy, we blend deep technical expertise with authentic values, achieving world-class satisfaction (NPS 91). Our dedicated teams specialize in software, data, and AI across the U.S. and LATAM, bridging the gap between boutique agility and enterprise scale.

This is a full-time, Columbus, OH-based position that requires onsite visits with the client 5 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Design the standards template and style guide, and write a sample standard for [Company]'s approval
• Build the standards catalog, map dependencies between standards, and propose an authoring sequence
• Research, write, and publish one standard per topic area across all six domains
• Create diagrams and reference architectures, and deliver them as editable source files
• Write a conformance checklist for each standard to support architecture reviews
• Run walkthrough sessions per domain with the architecture team, and provide recordings and materials
• Produce a maintenance guide covering how to update, version, and retire standards
• Work with [Company] architects and stakeholders to review drafts and incorporate feedback

Required

• Proven track record writing enterprise architecture standards, principles, or policies for large organizations
• Senior architects with hands-on experience in each of the following domains:
  • Application architecture
  • Integration architecture
  • Data architecture
  • Technology architecture
  • Delivery practices
  • Cross-cutting concerns
• Strong technical writing: clear, consistent, and usable by engineering teams
• Experience producing reference architectures and diagrams in editable, maintainable formats
• Experience running architecture reviews or governance processes

Preferred

• Familiarity with frameworks such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, or similar
• Experience with cloud, API and event-driven integration, and modern data platforms
• A record of structured knowledge transfer to in-house architecture teams

This role is based in the US and only open to citizens and permanent residents of the US who do not require visa sponsorship.