Senior Enterprise Architect - Strategy & Cloud Leadership

CDW; United States; Remote; USD 89,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

CDW is seeking an Enterprise Architect to lead complex, cross‑functional architectural efforts. You will bridge business needs and technology, guiding platform roadmaps, standards, and governance across application, data, and infrastructure domains.

You will craft business cases, drive strategic initiatives, and mentor teams, while supporting cloud, mobile, and web services initiatives to modernize CDW's technology platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 7 years IT experience, OR 11 years total IT experience.
• 5 years operating as an Enterprise Architect or equivalent in TOGAF.
• Experience developing architectural standards and roadmaps.
• Proven ability to align business and technology strategies.

Responsibilities

• Define platform roadmaps and technology lifecycles across a diverse solutions portfolio.
• Create standards and guiding principles for future state architecture.
• Provide consultative services on architecture compliance and strategic directives.
• Develop and present business cases for high-level initiatives and funding.
• Lead architecture guidance within capabilities and mentor others.
• Represent EA for application, data, and infrastructure initiatives.
• Support cloud, mobile, web services, middleware, and databases architecture.
• Establish value of technology to business objectives with feasibility studies.
• Oversee design reviews and ensure alignment with enterprise strategies.
• Lead vendor selection and ROI/TC0 analyses, and drive value in standards.
• Develop and maintain Enterprise Architecture models for CDW.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Presentation skills

Autonomy

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Tools

TOGAF

Job description

CDW is seeking an Enterprise Architect to lead complex, cross‑functional architectural efforts. You will bridge business needs and technology, guiding platform roadmaps, standards, and governance across application, data, and infrastructure domains.

You will craft business cases, drive strategic initiatives, and mentor teams, while supporting cloud, mobile, and web services initiatives to modernize CDW's technology platform.