Principal Enterprise Architect

The Principal Enterprise Architect is a key role responsible for designing, developing, and implementing integration solutions that connect various systems, applications, and data sources across the organization. This role focuses on ensuring seamless data flow, process automation, and efficient communication between different IT systems, supporting business initiatives and strategic goals. The Integration Architect will work closely with business stakeholders, application development teams, infrastructure teams, and security teams to define integration requirements, evaluate technologies, and build robust, scalable, and secure integration solutions., * Maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap, create reference architectures and standards, and evaluate emerging technologies to support long-term district goals

• Act as the architectural authority for major programs and projects: review and approve solution designs, own technical RFP requirements, and publish decision records
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle for an integration platform/iPaaS: define requirements, lead vendor evaluation, manage pilots, oversee implementation, plan rollouts, and maintain
• Work closely with Cybersecurity to ensure architectures follow organizational security policies, support zero-trust principles, and include appropriate controls for identity, access, segmentation, and incident response readiness
• Define enterprise integration patterns and API/connector standards, including error/retry semantics, credential and secrets management, ordering/transaction guarantees, observability, and SLAs
• Partner with the Data Insights Group (DIG) to define enterprise data models, pipelines, governance, and data quality standards to enable analytics and real-time operational insight
• Design secure integration boundaries between operational technologies (OT) and enterprise IT; embed architectural requirements into the district tech stack and ensure solutions are operable by Operations teams
• Establish testing criteria, monitoring requirements, runbooks, escalation paths, and production acceptance gates for integrations and campus systems
• Lead the Architectural Review Board (ARB), establish review criteria, guide solution teams through the architecture review process, and ensure technology decisions align with enterprise architecture standards
• Direct and coordinate implementation work performed by vendors, consultants, or internal teams to ensure adherence to architecture, delivery quality, and effective knowledge transfer
• Advise leadership on architecture tradeoffs and risk, mentor technical staff, and promote adoption of architecture practices across the organization

Integration, ERP, Data, API, messaging, REST, IoT, Azure, ETL, * 8-12+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture, or senior technical strategy roles

• Proven experience leading enterprise integration strategy and overseeing selection and implementation of an integration platform/iPaaS
• Deep knowledge of cloud, application, data, and integration architectures and the operationalization of integrations
• Demonstrated experience with OT/IT integration in campus, venue, real-estate, hospitality, or industrial environments
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills; experience running RFPs, defining technical SOWs, and ensuring knowledge transfer to Operations
• Excellent written and verbal communication; experience producing architecture artifacts and decision records
• Systems thinking and enterprise architectural rigor
• Leadership, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with integration platform governance, connector design, observability, SLAs, and operational runbooks
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and supporting integrations using an iPaaS platform such as Boomi preferred
• Experience in data modeling and governance to enable analytics and real-time insight
• Vendor/partner procurement and delivery management experience
• Strong documentation and conceptual modeling skills (UML, ArchiMate or equivalent)
• Leadership, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills #LI-RJ1 #LI-DNI