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# Enterprise Architect

- **Company:** Kforce Inc.
- **Location:** Katy, TX, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Integration Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Data Visualization, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft PowerPoint, Software Tools, Web Platforms, Google Cloud
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/d3d9d3c1-ec23-4449-b9c9-6efcc3666923

## About the Role

* Experience defining architecture standards, principles, reference architectures, and target-state roadmaps
 * Working knowledge of business, application, and integration architecture
 * Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, Azure, or similar technologies
 * Working knowledge of data, martech, and digital platforms
 * Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes
 * Strong analytical and systems-thinking capabilities
 * Proficiency with productivity and visualization tools such as PowerPoint, Visio, and architecture modeling tools including ARDOQ, BizzDesign, or Abacus
 * Strategic mindset with the ability to balance long-term architecture vision with near-term business needs
 * Proven ability to influence without authority across product, engineering, and business teams

## Description

Kforce has a client that is seeking an Enterprise Architect in Katy, TX., * Implement enterprise-wide architecture standards, principles, and guardrails across application, integration, and platform domains and projects

 * Partner with IT and business leadership to help establish a long-term enterprise architecture vision aligned to business strategy
 * Lead development of business architecture artifacts such as capability maps, value streams, and roadmaps to connect business strategy, operating models, and technology architecture
 * Evaluate emerging technologies and platforms, guiding adoption decisions based on value, risk, and architectural fit
 * Champion scalable, resilient, and sustainable enterprise solutions that balance innovation with operational excellence
 * Own and evolve enterprise architecture vision through project implementation across one or more of the following domains: marketing technology and customer engagement platforms; supply chain, inventory, logistics, and merchandising systems; Store, POS, and unified commerce platforms
 * Guide architectural direction for capabilities such as campaign management, personalization, martech integrations, order management, fulfillment, and in-store operations
 * Identify and drive opportunities to simplify fragmented landscapes, reduce redundancy, and improve interoperability
 * Enable seamless, end-to-end omni-channel experiences through cohesive architecture design
 * Build trusted advisory relationships with senior business, product, and IT leaders
 * Ensure alignment between business priorities, transformation roadmaps, and technology investments
 * Translate business strategy into business capability models, value streams, and target-state projects that guide technology investment and transformation priorities


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