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# Enterprise Architect

- **Company:** Mizuho Americas Services LLC
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $275,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Applications Architecture, Application Integration Architecture, Software Applications, Pattern Recognition, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Integration
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/74006419-enterprise-architect

## About the Role

* Knowledge and experience in Application modeling
 * Understanding of IT Strategy, development lifecycle and alternative delivery methods
 * Demonstrates thorough understanding of the key technologies which form the infrastructure necessary to effectively support existing and future business requirements
 * Effective leadership skills including negotiation, persuasion, salesmanship, teaching, managing, conflict resolution, bridge building and being politically astute
 * Analytical skills like technical translator, abstraction, pattern recognition, logical and holistic thinking
 * Solution modeling & system integration and SOA experience
 * Breadth of knowledge across all aspects of infrastructure design, delivery, operations and evolution

Deliverables:

 * Target Application Architecture
 * General Application Architecture standards, principles and guidelines
 * Target integration architecture and guidelines
 * Application architecture roadmap

## Description

* Develop application architecture strategy in alignment with the Business goals
 * Manages an application architecture governance process: develops, communicates and ensures adherence to architecture processes, principles, policies and standards for the enterprise
 * Review business drivers and strategies, understands the implications to the application architecture, and identifies/mitigates risks to solutions
 * Champion and communicate the application architecture to the business leaders and contracting teams; associating the implication of the architecture to objectives/drivers/goals
 * Accountable for the implementation of application architecture roadmap
 * Collect research on the competition in terms of best practices, business processes and procedures
 * Identify emerging technologies that can enable the overall business architecture
 * Contribute to the development of proof of concepts or prototypes
 * Partners with associates to build a comprehensive reference architecture, examine existing frameworks and prepare for the future
 * Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in application development and integration
 * Analyze the current IT ecosystem application architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements
 * Define transition steps and strategy from the current to the future application architecture
 * Define the conceptual and detailed architecture for the development of applications and oversee the evolution of that architecture as the platform is deployed across the entire organization
 * Develop methods to integrate systems that interact and extend across organizational and functional lines
 * Develop and maintain IT ecosystem application architecture models, processes and documentation
 * Identifies system requirements for large, complex ecosystem-wide applications
 * Reviews requirements across multiple applications and develops application models that span applications and domains
 * Oversee or lead the evaluation and selection process for application packages


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