Senior Enterprise Technical Architect

Matlen Silver; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 96,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental insurance (

401(k) plan (employee contributions)

Job summary

Matlen Silver is seeking an experienced Technical Architect to join the ERFT horizontal team in Jersey City, NJ. You will independently research complex technologies, develop architecture recommendations, and drive technology decisions across a large enterprise environment.

Responsibilities include evaluating landscapes, creating target-state architectures, standards, roadmaps, and guidance, while collaborating with owners, developers, and senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Technical Architecture, Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Strategy, Senior Engineering, or a comparable technical role.
• Experience working within a large, complex enterprise technology environment.
• Broad understanding of enterprise application architecture, with technical depth across multiple areas of modern technology.
• Ability to independently research unfamiliar technologies, evaluate alternatives, and develop well-supported technical recommendations.
• Understanding of modern application architectures, including APIs, microservices, databases, infrastructure, and cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and OCI containers.
• Linux environments.
• Terraform and Helm.
• Git and CI/CD platforms.
• Java, Python, or .NET application environments.
• REST APIs and microservices.
• Kafka and enterprise messaging.
• Relational databases.
• Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Ability to understand proposed technical changes, assess their impact, and explain the underlying technical requirements and rationale.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and inconsistencies across multiple sources of information.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and present technical concepts to senior management.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience creating architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and executive-ready presentations.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and drive deliverables to completion without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage architecture assignments from initial research and analysis through recommendations and implementation guidance.
• Evaluate enterprise application and technology landscapes to identify opportunities, risks, gaps, dependencies, and areas for improvement.
• Develop target-state architecture recommendations, technology standards, roadmaps, and architectural guidance.
• Research current and emerging technologies and assess their capabilities, strategic fit, risks, and potential enterprise adoption.
• Review proposed architectures and technology solutions to identify gaps, risks, exceptions, and potential improvements.
• Translate enterprise technology strategy into practical architecture recommendations and adoption guidance.
• Collaborate with application owners, developers, engineers, architects, infrastructure teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Develop architecture diagrams, technical documentation, decision materials, executive presentations, and progress reports.
• Analyze complex technical information and communicate findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Coordinate across teams to resolve technical questions, align stakeholders, drive decisions, and ensure assigned actions reach completion.
• Support enterprise technology lifecycle initiatives, modernization efforts, and platform adoption.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

OCI containers

Linux

Terraform

Helm

Git

CI/CD

Java

Python

REST APIs

Microservices

Kafka

Relational databases

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Tools

Java

Python

.NET

Job description

Matlen Silver is seeking an experienced Technical Architect to join the ERFT horizontal team in Jersey City, NJ. You will independently research complex technologies, develop architecture recommendations, and drive technology decisions across a large enterprise environment.

Responsibilities include evaluating landscapes, creating target-state architectures, standards, roadmaps, and guidance, while collaborating with owners, developers, and senior stakeholders.