Senior Enterprise Architect – Strategy & Transformation

Guardian Life; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life is expanding its Digital & Technology organization with a Principal Enterprise Architect to shape enterprise architecture strategy across multiple domains, including applications, data, cloud, and security. You will translate strategy into practical standards and collaborate with business and technology leaders to drive federated execution.

The role requires deep architectural breadth, executive communication skills, and the ability to influence without direct authority in a large,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, domain 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 initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience with architecture governance, standards development, target-state planning, and strategic technology decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership for major strategic initiatives and enterprise-impacting technology decisions.
• Define and maintain architecture perspectives across business, application, data, integration, cloud, platform, security, and AI-related capabilities.
• Own enterprise standards, target state, governance, exceptions, and material technology decision frameworks.
• Translate enterprise strategy into practical guidance for domain architecture and engineering teams.
• Promote alignment across business units, shared services, and technology domains.
• Support management of architecture exceptions, including rationale, risk analysis, and remediation paths.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cross-domain expertise

Influence without authority

Executive communication

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Advanced degree / certifications (TOGAF, SAFe, AWS, Azure, GCP)

Tools

Cloud platforms

API strategies

Platform engineering

Job description

Guardian Life is expanding its Digital & Technology organization with a Principal Enterprise Architect to shape enterprise architecture strategy across multiple domains, including applications, data, cloud, and security. You will translate strategy into practical standards and collaborate with business and technology leaders to drive federated execution.

The role requires deep architectural breadth, executive communication skills, and the ability to influence without direct authority in a large,