Senior Enterprise Architect

Insight Global; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading staffing and recruiting company seeks a Senior Enterprise Architect in Chicago. This role involves guiding technology policies, overseeing architecture teams, and ensuring alignment between business and IT strategies. With over 15 years of experience required, the successful candidate will influence senior management and drive architectural initiatives critical to business success.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Qualifications

• 15 or more years of IT and business/industry work experience.
• Leadership experience in managing large, cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of components of holistic enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities

• Provides overall direction and definition of IT architecture.
• Supports architectural initiatives and reviews existing processes.
• Leads the architecture team and manages projects.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture design

Systems lifecycle management

Infrastructure planning

Technology guidance

Job description

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$150,000.00/yr - $165,000.00/yr

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Account Manager | Staffing, Talent Solutions, Technical Managed Services

Insight Global is looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect for one of our major CPG clients. The role would be a contract to hire based in Chicago.

The role of the Enterprise Architect is to enable business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization. Furthermore, the enterprise architect provides technology guidance, road maps, principles, standards, and best practices.

Responsibilities

Provides overall direction, guidance, and definition of IT architecture to effectively support the corporate business strategy.

• Supports all architectural disciplines and champions’ architectural initiatives.
• Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as support of all architectural disciplines under their direction.
• Establishes and oversees the architecture team, including the recruitment, development, and maintenance of the architecture staff.
• Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains.
• Leads the EA review board and ensures that the solutions are compliant with target-state architecture models.
• Aligns architecture strategy with business goals.
• Defines, explains, and advocates technology strategy.
• Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Promotes the EA process, outcomes, and results to the organization and senior leadership.
• Leads and facilitates the creation of governing principles to guide EA decision making.
• Leads the EA governance processes.
• Manages exceptions to architectural standards at an enterprise level.
• Reviews and/or analyzes and develops architectural requirements as needed for the organization.
• Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solutions.
• Leads teams in developing technology plans.
• Approves modification of the enterprise architecture to accommodate project needs.
• Provides strategic consultation to business and IT leaders.
• Advises on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities.
• Works with business leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy.
• Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Develops a communication plan for architecture at the enterprise level.
• Directs the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends.
• Ensures recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment.
• Approves the tools and components used within the enterprise.
• Works with senior leadership to approve allocation of budget to meet architectural initiatives critical to business/mission success.
• Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.
• Defines the skills, competencies in the skills, and talents for architecture team members, and works with human resources to acquire staff.
• Responsible for the overall training and development of the architecture team.

Must Haves:

• 15 or more years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations.
• Leadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
• Requires exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture, business re-engineering principles and processes, and basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting.

Plusses:

• Retail or CPG experience
• EDI Integration knowledge

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Staffing and Recruiting

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Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

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