Enterprise Architecture Lead — Strategy, Governance & Delivery

Oceaneering International, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Oceaneering International, Inc. in Houston, TX seeks an Enterprise Architecture leader to align business strategy with IT capabilities and guide transformation initiatives.

The role involves engaging with business and IT stakeholders, assessing current and future architectures, and developing reference architectures, standards, and roadmaps. You will mentor architects, participate in ARB processes, and design scalable, secure solutions across domains.

Responsibilities

• Support enterprise architecture engagement with business and IT stakeholders, working closely with the Director of EA for new business initiatives.
• Conduct current-state and future-state architectural assessments, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities for optimization and modernization.
• Develop and maintain enterprise and solution architectures, including reference architectures, standards, and guiding principles.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, security, data, and integration teams to design cross-domain, scalable, and secure solutions.
• Support and actively participate in Architecture Review Board (ARB) processes, ensuring architectural consistency, risk mitigation, and governance compliance.
• Participate in the evaluation of technologies, platforms, and vendors; provide architecture-based recommendations to support investment and roadmap decisions.
• Mentor and guide architects and analysts, fostering architectural rigor, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with IT and business leadership to align architectural priorities with strategic initiatives and delivery roadmaps.
• Ensure architectural decisions considering security, compliance, resilience, and operational sustainability.
• Support enterprise application portfolio management activities, including rationalization, lifecycle management, and technology roadmap planning.
• Foster a positive team culture through motivation, collaboration, empowerment, coaching, mentoring, and training.
• Supervise the day-to-day activities of the team to ensure effective support of EA initiatives.
• Utilize effective organizational change management, including training, communication, and organizational alignment.
• Working with senior management and other peers for strategy development and execution planning

Job description

Oceaneering International, Inc. in Houston, TX seeks an Enterprise Architecture leader to align business strategy with IT capabilities and guide transformation initiatives.

The role involves engaging with business and IT stakeholders, assessing current and future architectures, and developing reference architectures, standards, and roadmaps. You will mentor architects, participate in ARB processes, and design scalable, secure solutions across domains.