Senior Data Enterprise Architect – Hybrid

Guardian Life; Bethlehem (Northampton County); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life in Bethlehem, PA, Holmdel, NJ, and New York, NY is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to shape enterprise strategy and translate it into practical architecture direction. You will partner with business and technology leaders across domains to set standards, roadmaps, and governance, driving modernization and scalable solutions.

This senior role requires strategic thinking, cross-domain depth, and the ability to influence in a federated enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture or senior technology strategy roles.
• Deep cross-domain expertise spanning applications, integration, data, AI, cloud, security, and platform strategy.
• Experience leading architecture for large-scale transformation in complex enterprises.
• Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership for strategic initiatives and modernization programs.
• Assess options balancing value, cost, risk, resilience, time to market.
• Support governance, standards, and decision forums for architecture.
• Partner with domain architects, platform leaders, security, data, and business tech leaders.
• Mentor and develop architects and promote architecture discipline.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Influence without authority

Cross-domain expertise

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Guardian Life in Bethlehem, PA, Holmdel, NJ, and New York, NY is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to shape enterprise strategy and translate it into practical architecture direction. You will partner with business and technology leaders across domains to set standards, roadmaps, and governance, driving modernization and scalable solutions.

This senior role requires strategic thinking, cross-domain depth, and the ability to influence in a federated enterprise.