Strategic Enterprise Architect: Roadmaps & Modernization

Kforce Inc; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

HSA

FSA

401(k)

Life, disability & ADD insurance

Salaried PTO

Hourly PTO eligibility & Service Contr

Job summary

Kforce Inc. is seeking an Enterprise Architect to align technology investments, applications, platforms, data, integrations, and cloud services with business strategy.

You will advise IT leadership, establish future-state roadmaps, and guide modernization to reduce debt, control costs, and manage risk. You will develop a 3-5 year technology strategy, translate business priorities into concrete modernization plans, and oversee the enterprise application portfolio for cost, lifecycle, and risk.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive IT experience
• 5+ years in enterprise/solution architecture, technology strategy, or IT leadership
• Experience with roadmaps, application portfolio management, modernization, technical debt, and architecture governance
• Strong knowledge of Azure or comparable cloud platforms, data architecture, integrations, enterprise applications, and security
• Strong executive communication and influencing skills
• Regulated-industry experience preferred
• TOGAF or similar architecture framework experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise technology strategy and a 3-5-year roadmap
• Translate business priorities into technology, modernization, and investment plans
• Advise leadership on technology investments, platforms, and future-state capabilities
• Manage the enterprise application portfolio, including ownership, lifecycle, cost, dependencies, criticality, and risk
• Lead application rationalization and identify opportunities to modernize, migrate, consolidate, replace, or retire applications
• Develop application health and technical debt scorecards to support investment decisions
• Establish architecture principles, standards, reference patterns, and governance
• Review major technology investments, cloud services, integrations, and modernization initiatives
• Define strategic direction for Azure, enterprise data, APIs, integrations, and application hosting
• Evaluate AI, automation, analytics, and emerging technologies while balancing innovation, risk, cost, and sustainability

Skills

Executive communication

Cloud strategy

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Azure

Architecture frameworks (TOGAF)

Job description

Kforce Inc. is seeking an Enterprise Architect to align technology investments, applications, platforms, data, integrations, and cloud services with business strategy.

You will advise IT leadership, establish future-state roadmaps, and guide modernization to reduce debt, control costs, and manage risk. You will develop a 3-5 year technology strategy, translate business priorities into concrete modernization plans, and oversee the enterprise application portfolio for cost, lifecycle, and risk.