Strategic Enterprise Architect: AI-Enabled Transformation

GHD; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

GHD is seeking an Enterprise Architect to define how the technology landscape must evolve to enable enterprise strategy and future operating models. The role bridges strategy and execution, translating ambitions into capability roadmaps and guardrails across IT, with a future-first orientation.

The successful candidate will be a strategic thinker with strong business, technology, operating model, and portfolio judgment, able to engage executives and senior stakeholders while guiding

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, business architecture, technology strategy, or related senior roles.
• Experience working with executive and senior leadership stakeholders.
• Experience developing enterprise technology strategies, capability roadmaps, and investment recommendations.
• Experience operating within complex, global, and matrixed organizations; desirable in professional services or consulting.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain GHD’s future-state enterprise architecture.
• Translate strategy and operating model evolution into technology direction, capability roadmaps, and transition pathways.
• Identify capability gaps, dependencies, and opportunities required to support future business outcomes.
• Develop and communicate a clear architectural vision for a more technology-enabled, data-driven, and AI-enabled enterprise.
• Influence major technology investments and roadmap decisions before delivery commitments.
• Connect business priorities to technology capability requirements and investment choices.
• Provide architectural input into strategic programs, business cases, and transformation initiatives.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Data platforms

Cloud technologies

AI capabilities

Portfolio & standards

Stakeholder management

Education

Undergraduate degree in IT/Engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

GHD is seeking an Enterprise Architect to define how the technology landscape must evolve to enable enterprise strategy and future operating models. The role bridges strategy and execution, translating ambitions into capability roadmaps and guardrails across IT, with a future-first orientation.

The successful candidate will be a strategic thinker with strong business, technology, operating model, and portfolio judgment, able to engage executives and senior stakeholders while guiding