Principal Enterprise Architect

Motion Recruitment; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading utility company seeks a Principal Enterprise Architect in Columbus, OH for a 6-month hybrid contract. The candidate will provide architecture leadership, require 10+ years of enterprise architecture experience, and be knowledgeable in Application/DevSecOps technologies. A key focus is on guiding the architecture vision and delivering innovative solutions while collaborating across various business areas.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture.
• Deep understanding of Application / DevSecOps capabilities.
• Ability to mentor other architects.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall architecture leadership across teams.
• Translate business requirements into architecture blueprints.
• Lead architectural collaboration and governing processes.

Skills

Application / DevSecOps technologies

API-first design patterns

Consultative skills

Leadership competencies

Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)

Tools

LeanIX

TOGAF

ITIL

Job description

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Base pay range

$80.00/yr - $87.57/yr

Exciting Principal Enterprise Architect opportunity with our client, one of the largest utilities companies in the United States.

Contract Duration: 6 Months through the end of the year – may extend.

This is a hybrid role with Monday, Thursday and Friday remote – Tuesday and Wednesday onsite in our client’s offices in Columbus, OH.

Required Skills & Experience

• Required: 10+ years of relevant enterprise-wide architecture, including but not limited to the Application / DevSecOps technologies listed below.
• Required: Deep understanding of various aspects of Application / DevSecOps capabilities listed below.
• Required: Experience in directing and mentoring other architects in the team and across the organization.
• Experience with on-premise solutions and cloud platforms on Azure, AWS. Application Domain Qualifications:
• Domain Capability Areas: AI/ML- API Gateway & Management- Application Components- Development Tools- DevSecOps - GenAI- Integration- Intelligent Automation- Runtime Environments- Security Deep knowledge of API-first design patterns, Technology skills across multiple IT domains (e.g. application, data, infrastructure, security)
• Strong consultative skills at a cross-functional level, Strong skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and LeanIX, Knowledge of TOGAF, ITIL, and other architecture / business process frameworks.
• Experience in application development, systems management, and/or project management is a plus. Leadership competencies in: Organizing and Setting Priorities- Managing and Measuring Work- Peer Relationships- Continuous Improvement- Motivating Others- Self-motivated; capable of managing multiple tasks.

What You Will Be Doing:

Description: Reporting to the Head of Architecture, the Principal Enterprise Architect works closely with the Application Development, Infrastructure, Security, Data & Analytics, and PMO teams to provide overall architecture leadership across our client company.

The Principal Enterprise Architect must possess deep technology experiences with DevSecOps, APIs, and application development lifecycles to build out the architecture vision, strategy, and capability roadmap. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience envisioning and translating overall architecture with business needs via transformation roadmaps, establish target architecture and standards for the organization, building consensus, and provide guidance in the selling and execution within solution development processes of options and reuse points.

Essential Function: Provides senior level expertise on overall direction, guidance, definition, decisions, and priorities regarding the enterprises overall architecture to effectively support the organization business strategy.

Interact with business leaders, IT leaders, vendors and industry experts to translate business requirements, understand options to capabilities, and create architecture blueprints and high-level solution designs for the most complex architectural components of a program.

Strategy: Interfaces across several business areas, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining direction for future projects. Help business leaders and their teams think through the technology, business and operational implications of their technology investment decisions.

Execution: Reviews, advises, and designs standard software and hardware builds, system options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on the enterprise business process and goals. Be the architecture thought leader and trusted go-to partner for Product and Engineering leadership across the organization, recommending innovative solutions to improve live and new system architectures.

Operations: Facilitates the establishment and implementation of standards and reference material that guides the design of technology solutions. Lead architectural collaboration and governing processes including Architecture Review Boards, Solution Architecture reviews, exception management, and related processes.

Innovation: Responsible for researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and delivering solutions that are appropriate for the business and technologies strategies. Tracks industry trends and maintains knowledge of new technologies to better serve the enterprises architecture needs.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Utilities

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