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# Enterprise Architect

- **Company:** Advantage Tech, Inc.
- **Location:** Kansas City, MO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Application Portfolio Management, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Data Architecture, IT Management, Information Technology Operations, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Platform System, Technical Debt, Togaf, Information Technology
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/95b275c3-d33b-4353-895b-921ff334a0b0/enterprise-architect

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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.