Chief Enterprise Architect

Centric Consulting • Chicago, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Chief Enterprise Architect is the senior IT leader responsible for translating enterprise strategy into clear, executable technology and business outcomes. This role ensures that technology investments, architectures, and roadmaps directly support the company’s goals for growth, customer experience, productivity, compliance, security, simplification, and cost optimization.

Requirements

• A seasoned architecture and strategy executive with 15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, IT strategy, and largescale business transformation.
• You think in systems, influence at the executive level, and balance long term architectural integrity with near term delivery.
• You’re commercially grounded, outcome driven, and skilled at aligning business and technology leaders around a coherent future state vision.
• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 15+ years in enterprise architecture, IT strategy, or business transformation
• Proven track record delivering multiyear architecture and technology evolution roadmaps
• Experience influencing senior executives and leading global architecture communities
• Expertise in cloud, SaaS, platforms, data, AI, and technology trend evaluation
• Exceptional executive communication and facilitation skills

Responsibilities

• Lead and mature the enterprise architecture community, establishing principles, standards, and governance.
• Translate enterprise strategy into target operating models, capability roadmaps, and sequenced technology evolution plans.
• Maintain and annually refresh the enterprise ProcessIT Landscape and rolling 5year Target State Architecture.
• Drive simplification, modernization, and reduction of architectural complexity and technical debt.
• Ensure alignment across business capabilities, value streams, product portfolios, platforms, and technology standards.
• Govern technology selections, solution designs, and innovation experiments through the Technical Assessment Council (TAC).
• Assess architectural health, guide modernization priorities, and champion CMDB accuracy.
• Partner with CIO, business leaders, Finance, Strategy, and Transformation to ensure technology decisions maximize enterprise leverage and minimize cost.

Benefits

• We proudly offer competitive compensation, and a comprehensive and well-rounded benefits package for full-time employees that have been designed to nourish your well-being.
• Benefits offered include health, dental & vision coverage, 401(k) with company match, life insurance, self-managed PTO, paid holidays, parental leave, and other unique incentives that celebrate your accomplishments.
• We also offer access to many voluntary benefits such as Flexible Spending Accounts, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal Services, as well as discounts on home, auto and pet insurance
• Remote and Hybrid Work
• Time Off When You Need It
• Benefits That Flex
• Professional Development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees