Director, Enterprise Architecture
About The Position
The Director, Enterprise Architecture is accountable for defining AEP’s target-state architecture and aligning business strategy, technology investment, and delivery execution into a coherent, secure, and cost-effective technology landscape. This leader will mature the enterprise architecture practice across business, application, data, integration, and technology domains by establishing standards, reference patterns, and governance that help delivery teams move quickly while controlling complexity, risk, and technical debt. Building on AEP’s application inventory in LeanIX, the Director will lead Application Portfolio Management, continuously evaluating applications by business value, cost, risk, and technical fitness to inform rationalization, roadmaps, and capital planning. The role will establish a collaborative, enterprise-wide architecture discipline through a domain-team model and shape the multi-year roadmap supporting AEP’s growth and transformation. The Director will advise business and technology leaders, align architecture with investment and sourcing decisions, and build and lead a team of enterprise, solution, and domain architects. The position is onsite.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of relevant experience.
- Preferred experience includes 12 or more years of progressive IT experience, including at least 5 years in enterprise or solution architecture roles.
- Preferred experience includes at least 5 years leading architecture or technology teams in a large, complex enterprise.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree or MBA.
- TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise architecture and portfolio management tools such as LeanIX.
- Experience with cloud platforms, API management, and integration and event-streaming architectures.
- Experience in the utility or energy industry, or another highly regulated industry.
- Knowledge of technology-related regulatory frameworks, including NERC CIP and FERC.
- Passion for sustainability and the clean energy transition.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute an enterprise architecture strategy, principles, and target-state architecture aligned with AEP’s business strategy, capital plans, and risk objectives.
- Develop and maintain multi-year architecture roadmaps that sequence platform, application, integration, data, and security investments.
- Map business capabilities to applications, data domains, and platforms to identify gaps, redundancies, and shared-service opportunities.
- Provide architecture leadership for transformation programs, including cloud adoption, enterprise and customer platform modernization, and legacy platform retirement.
- Own the LeanIX enterprise architecture repository as the trusted source of truth for applications, business capabilities, interfaces, and technology lifecycle.
- Lead Application Portfolio Management, assessing and classifying applications by business value, cost, risk, and technical fitness.
- Guide decisions on where to invest in, sustain, modernize, and retire technology platforms in partnership with CITO leadership.
- Recommend rationalization that reduces duplication, run costs, and technical debt while maintaining business continuity.
- Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards across application, integration, data, infrastructure, security, and delivery domains.
- Publish reusable reference architectures and technology patterns for common solutions.
- Establish and lead cross-functional Domain Teams and working groups to develop and own standards across the organization.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI, intelligent automation, and robotics, and develop views on their applicability to AEP.
- Advise IT and business leaders by translating architecture topics into clear business trade-offs and recommendations.
- Partner with portfolio planning, finance, and procurement to align architecture roadmaps with demand intake, capital planning, and vendor strategy.
- Lead architecture input to technology sourcing decisions, including RFPs, vendor evaluations, and build-versus-buy analyses.
- Brief senior leadership on architecture portfolio health, roadmap progress, and emerging technology risks.
- Build and lead a high-performing team of enterprise, solution, and domain architects.
- Develop architecture talent and future leaders through coaching, career paths, and communities of practice.
- Foster collaboration, pragmatism, and rigor while keeping architecture connected to delivery teams.
- Define and track EA value metrics, including standards adoption, portfolio rationalization savings, and architecture review cycle time.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
