Strategic Enterprise Architect — Roadmaps & Governance

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Openkrill is seeking an Enterprise Architect on a specialist contract to establish and mature our enterprise architecture capability. You will craft current and target-state architectures across business capabilities, data, integrations, and infrastructure, and provide practical roadmaps, standards and governance to guide technology investment and change.

Working with senior stakeholders, you will drive architecture assurance, explain complex decisions, and ensure secure, scalable solutions

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification in information technology, information systems, cybersecurity, business or related discipline, or equivalent senior professional experience.
• Certification in enterprise architecture such as COBIT, CISM, CISSP, CRISC or TOGAF is highly regarded.
• Substantial experience working as an Enterprise Architect, Principal Architect or Senior Solution Architect within a complex, multi-site organisation.

Responsibilities

• Assess the organisation’s architecture maturity, technology landscape and existing documentation.
• Develop current-state architecture across business capabilities, applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, identity and access, cybersecurity and relevant operational technology.
• Document critical system dependencies, data flows, interfaces, ownership, support arrangements and technology lifecycle status.
• Identify duplication, technical debt, end-of-life technology, single points of failure and material architectural risks.
• Establish a central architecture repository and consistent documentation standards, validating information with business stakeholders, technology teams and service providers.
• Define the target-state enterprise architecture aligned with the business and technology strategies.
• Develop architecture principles, reference architectures, standards and preferred technology patterns.
• Create transition roadmaps identifying priorities, dependencies, sequencing and indicative investment requirements.
• Provide architectural direction for core business platforms, data and analytics, infrastructure, integration, cybersecurity, AI, automation and other emerging technologies.
• Support technology rationalisation, consolidation and modernisation, ensuring target-state plans address scalability, security, resilience, recoverability, supportability and future growth.
• Review priority initiative concepts, business cases, requirements, solution designs and procurement proposals.
• Provide architecture assurance for priority initiatives from concept and business case through design and implementation.
• Assess proposed solutions against enterprise standards, security requirements and target-state architecture, identifying risks, dependencies, constraints and remediation actions.
• Govern architecture decisions, conditions, exceptions and technical debt, and provide architecture input into CPMO portfolio prioritisation, planning and delivery governance.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Architecture Modelling and Roadmapping

Applications, Data and Integration

Cloud, Infrastructure and Cybersec

Architecture Governance and Assurance

Technology Strategy and Rationalisatn

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/IS/CIS or related

TOGAF or equivalent EA certification

Experience as Enterprise Architect in complex orgs

Tools

D365

Azure

Job description

Openkrill is seeking an Enterprise Architect on a specialist contract to establish and mature our enterprise architecture capability. You will craft current and target-state architectures across business capabilities, data, integrations, and infrastructure, and provide practical roadmaps, standards and governance to guide technology investment and change.

Working with senior stakeholders, you will drive architecture assurance, explain complex decisions, and ensure secure, scalable solutions