Senior Enterprise Architect - Strategy & Transformation

Guardian Life; Town of Bethlehem (NY); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead enterprise architecture initiatives across applications, data, cloud, and security. You will translate strategy into practical architectural direction, collaborate with domain teams, and drive modernization while ensuring governance and risk controls are embedded in all decisions.

You will engage with senior leaders, mentor architects, and influence federated execution to deliver scalable, high‑impact solutions across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of 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.
• Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership for major strategic initiatives and modernization programs.
• Assess architecture options balancing business value, cost, risk, resilience, and time to market.
• Support transformation through simplification, rationalization, and platform reuse.
• Identify opportunities to reduce duplication and improve interoperability across the enterprise.
• Mentor and coach architects and senior technology professionals.
• Collaborate with business and technology leaders to translate enterprise direction into federated execution.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Domain architecture

Cloud

AI

Security

Platform strategy

Governance

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Tools

TOGAF

SAFe

AWS

Azure

GCP

APIs

Job description

Guardian Life is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead enterprise architecture initiatives across applications, data, cloud, and security. You will translate strategy into practical architectural direction, collaborate with domain teams, and drive modernization while ensuring governance and risk controls are embedded in all decisions.

You will engage with senior leaders, mentor architects, and influence federated execution to deliver scalable, high‑impact solutions across the