Strategic Enterprise Architect - Roadmap & Innovation

American Unit, Inc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

American Unit, Inc in Houston's Downtown CenterPoint Towers is seeking an Enterprise Architect to define the vision, standards, and roadmaps that connect business strategy with technology execution. You will guide Domain, Platform, and Solution Architects and lead architecture reviews to ensure consistency and value across the enterprise.

The role emphasizes identifying emerging technologies, developing proofs of concepts, maintaining reference models, and operating governance processes like

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years in Enterprise Architecture.
• Expertise in enterprise architecture best practices, guiding principles, governance and standards.
• Ability to demonstrate TOGAF.
• Experience with Enterprise Architecture tools (e.g., LeanIX, iServer).

Responsibilities

• Assess current IT systems and services, research new technologies, and create IT architecture blueprints to help the business and IT achieve their desired outcomes.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework that incorporates cloud solutions, applications, data, and security, with an emphasis on the insurance business processes.
• Lead architectural reviews to ensure adherence to best practices, governance standards, and enterprise policies.
• Maintain high-level reference models including the functional architecture, conceptual data architecture, application architecture and the infrastructure strategy.
• Establish and execute architecture management processes including the governance structure (e.g. Architecture Review Board) and processes.
• Understand and communicate strategic themes and other key business drivers for architecture to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Influence common modeling, design, and coding practices.
• Facilitate the reuse of ideas, components, and proven patterns.
• Create, maintain, and communicate reusable enterprise architecture assets.
• Identify areas for improvement in the current systems architecture, such as areas of redundancy and develop comprehensive plans to incorporate suggestions into the technology roadmap.
• Serve as a bridge between Domain, Platform, and Solution Architects to ensure all parties are well-versed in the defined enterprise architecture strategy, standards, policies, guidelines, and design principles.
• Establish and enforce architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure consistency and quality across all technology implementations.
• Define and manage the innovation process and support development of a minimum viable product to demonstrate value to key stakeholders.
• Ensure innovative ideas introduced to the enterprise align with established standards and guardrails for the technology landscape.
• Maintain and manage Enterprise Architecture tools and repositories.
• Develop and comprehensively document standards for Domain, Platform, and Solution Architects to refer to when consulting the business on proposed solutions, including all domains of data, cloud/infrastructure, applications/integrations, business architecture, and security.
• Oversee product requirement document (PRD), user experience, design, and code reviews to ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards.
• Drive and administer the Technology Innovation Review process.
• Consult on use of emerging technologies and enterprise architecture standards to the business as needed.
• Manage the application portfolio across the technology landscape and identify needs for application upgrades and training implementation.
• Drive the Architecture Community of Practice to bring thought leadership, industry trends, and best practices to the enterprise.
• Work effectively within teams and collaborate with key stakeholders to gather requirements relevant to the broader enterprise architecture landscape.

Skills

5+ years in Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise architecture best practices

TOGAF

EA tools (LeanIX, iServer)

Job description

American Unit, Inc in Houston's Downtown CenterPoint Towers is seeking an Enterprise Architect to define the vision, standards, and roadmaps that connect business strategy with technology execution. You will guide Domain, Platform, and Solution Architects and lead architecture reviews to ensure consistency and value across the enterprise.

The role emphasizes identifying emerging technologies, developing proofs of concepts, maintaining reference models, and operating governance processes like