Enterprise Architect

• Ensure traceability from strategic objectives to initiatives, capabilities, and technology investments.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to capture capability maps, identify pain points, applications, and initiative impacts.
• Maintain and evolve architecture artifacts in LeanIX, ensuring accuracy and usability.
• Map and analyze business processes to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and identify improvement opportunities.
• Support initiative intake and prioritization by providing architectural insights and impact assessments.
• Participate in governance forums and conduct architecture reviews for projects and changes.
• Identify opportunities for simplification, modernization, and reuse across systems and processes.
• Define and maintain current, interim, and target states for architecture domains.
• Facilitate workshops to capture business processes, capability maturity, and strategic priorities.
• Promote awareness of architecture principles and practices across teams.
• Lead initiatives to modernize legacy systems and integrate new technologies seamlessly.
• Translate strategic themes into capability-based roadmaps and architectural targets.
• Collaborate with business units to describe customer-facing, supplier-related, execution, and management functions.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Work Experience

• 5+ years in IT or architecture-related roles.
• Experience with EA tools (LeanIX preferred) and frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.).
• Experience visualizing and modeling high-level business structures and processes.
• Familiarity with business capability modeling, application portfolio management, and technology lifecycle.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to apply architectural principles across both business and technology domains.
• Skilled in translating business strategy into architecture views and capability models.
• Deep understanding of business models, operating models, and value stream mapping.
• Practical experience with EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) to support governance, prioritization, and portfolio management.
• Effective communicator across cross-functional teams and organizational levels.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive consensus.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, initiative-driven environment.
• Demonstrated success in leading change and continuous improvement initiatives.
• High integrity, professionalism, and ethical standards.
• Collaborative mindset with a focus on producing innovative, enterprise-wide solutions.
• Strong grasp of how EA supports governance, prioritization, and strategic change.

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