Enterprise Architect

The Enterprise Architect aligns technology investments, applications, platforms, data, integrations, and cloud services with business strategy. This position serves as a trusted advisor to business and IT leadership, establishing the future-state technology roadmap and guiding decisions to modernize the technology portfolio, reduce technical debt, control cost, and manage risk., Technology Strategy and Roadmaps

• Develop and maintain enterprise technology strategy and three-to-five-year roadmap.
• Translate business priorities into actionable technology, modernization, and investment plans.
• Evaluate technology trends and recommend opportunities that improve business value, efficiency, customer experience, or risk management.
• Advise leadership on technology investments, platform direction, and future-state capabilities.

Application Portfolio and Technical Debt

• Establish and maintain the enterprise application portfolio as authoritative system of record.
• Document application ownership, business value, cost, lifecycle, dependencies, criticality, supportability, and risk.
• Lead application rationalization to identify opportunities to invest, modernize, migrate, consolidate, replace, tolerate, or retire.
• Develop application health and technical debt scorecards that support investment prioritization.
• Identify unsupported technologies, key-person dependencies, and other operational risks requiring remediation.

Architecture and Technology Governance

• Establish practical architecture principles, standards, reference patterns, and decision frameworks.
• Review major technology investments, application acquisitions, integrations, cloud services, and modernization initiatives.
• Promote consistency across applications, platforms, data, integrations, security controls, and cloud environments.
• Partner with Application Development, Infrastructure and IT Operations, Security, PMO, data teams, business leaders, and vendors to connect strategy with execution.

Cloud, Data, Integration, and Innovation

• Define strategic direction for Azure, application hosting, enterprise data, APIs, integrations, and platform selection.
• Support cloud governance focused on cost, security, resilience, supportability, and architectural consistency.
• Evaluate AI, automation, analytics, and emerging technologies through controlled, business-justified initiatives.
• Balance innovation with operational readiness, risk, cost, and long-term sustainability., * A complete application portfolio with defined ownership, lifecycle, cost, dependency, and risk information.
• An approved enterprise technology roadmap aligned with business priorities.
• Actionable application health, technical debt, and lifecycle reporting.
• Measurable progress in application rationalization and legacy modernization.
• Reduced redundancy, unsupported technology, operational complexity, and concentrated knowledge risk.
• More consistent, transparent, and cost-conscious technology investment decisions.

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Ten or more years of progressive IT experience, including five or more years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, or IT leadership.
• Demonstrated experience with technology roadmaps, application portfolio management, modernization, technical debt, and architecture governance.
• Strong understanding of enterprise applications, Azure or comparable cloud platforms, data architecture, integration patterns, and security principles.
• Ability to influence decisions and communicate effectively with executives, business leaders, technical teams, and vendors.
• Insurance, financial services, employee benefits, or other regulated-industry experience preferred.
• Familiarity with TOGAF or similar architecture practices preferred, with an emphasis on pragmatic application rather than process overhead.