Principal Enterprise Architect

The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America; Holmdel Township (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead enterprise architecture across the organization. The role translates strategy into architecture direction, standards, and roadmaps for business capabilities, applications, platforms, data, integration, cloud, security, and AI-related capabilities.

You will partner with business and technology stakeholders, ensure alignment with enterprise standards, and drive federated execution.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise architecture programs.
• Strong communication with executives.
• Ability to translate strategy into actionable standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture across business capabilities, applications, data, and security.
• Define and maintain target-state roadmaps and governance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Cloud Architecture

Strategic Thinking

Tools

TOGAF

Archimate

Job description

The Principal Enterprise Architect is a senior architecture leader responsible for shaping, guiding, and advancing enterprise architecture across the organization. Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Enablement, this role translates enterprise strategy into practical architecture direction, standards, target-state designs, and transition roadmaps across business capabilities, applications, platforms, data, integration, cloud, security, and emerging technology domains. While architecture is foundational, the Principal Enterprise Architect will be responsible for designing enterprise solutions in close collaboration with the business and technology stakeholders. Where applicable the role will be accountable to build solutions that scale for the enterprise. This position plays a critical role in connecting enterprise strategy to federated execution. The Principal Enterprise Architect partners with architecture, engineering, platform, security, data, and business technology leaders to ensure material technology decisions align with enterprise standards, target-state architecture, modernization priorities, and governance requirements. The role requires strong strategic thinking, architecture breadth, executive communication, and the ability to influence across a large, complex, and federated enterprise environment. The Principal Enterprise Architect provides architecture leadership and recommendations on material technology decisions and has delegated authority within the enterprise architecture operating model as assigned by the Head of Enterprise Architecture. The role is expected to escal

Every day, Guardian helps our 29 million customers realize their dreams through a range of insurance and financial products and services. Our Purpose, to inspire well-being, guides our dedication to the consumers, and communities we serve. We know that people count, and we go above and beyond to prepare them for the life they want to live, focusing on their overall well-being — mind, body, and wallet. As one of the largest mutual insurance companies, we put our customers first.

Behind every bright future is a GuardianTM. Learn more about Guardian at guardianlife.com.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Leadership Support the Head of Enterprise Architecture in developing and evolving enterprise architecture strategy, principles, standards, and target-state roadmaps. Define and maintain architecture perspectives across business, application, data, integration, cloud, platform, security, and AI-related capabilities as applicable. Own enterprise standards, target state, governance, exceptions, material technology decision frameworks Translate enterprise strategy and target-state direction into practical guidance for domain architecture and engineering teams. Promote alignment across business units, shared services, and technology domains. Strategic Architecture and Transformation Provide architecture leadership for major strategic initiatives, modernization programs, and enterprise-impacting technology decisions. Assess architecture options and recommend solutions that balance business value, cost, risk, resilience, time to market, and long-term maintainability.