Director - Enterprise Architecture
About The Position
Whether your developing software, designing hardware, advancing AI, or building next-generation infrastructure, you'll collaborate with global teams, work with emerging technologies, and help shape the future of innovation while growing your career at Arrow. We're seeking a strategic, hands-on Director of Enterprise Architecture to set and execute the architectural vision for Arrow's global IT estate. Enterprise Architecture connects strategy to execution. It translates business priorities into a clear technology blueprint, helping us invest in the right capabilities, reduce complexity, and scale securely. Enterprise Architecture enables smarter decisions, faster transformation, and better return on our technology spend. This role leads Arrow's enterprise architecture practice as a hub-and-spoke operating model, with a central EA team that sets the standards and domain/BU architects who translate them into delivery.
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive IT experience, including 5+ years leading Enterprise Architecture at a large, multi-business-unit enterprise (ideally $5B+ revenue).
- Demonstrated track record running an application rationalization program with measurable portfolio reduction.
- Hands-on experience with ERP and/or CRM consolidation at scale — Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, or comparable.
- Deep fluency across cloud (Azure/AWS), integration (API, iPaaS, event streaming), and data architecture.
- Proven ability to build and lead distributed EA teams (US + international); experience working across time zones in a global IT org.
- Track record influencing C-suite stakeholders and presenting architectural trade-offs in business terms.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in distribution, supply chain, manufacturing, or technology services industries.
- Familiarity with TOGAF, Zachman, or comparable EA frameworks (certification a plus, not required).
- Experience defining and operationalizing FinOps / ITFM frameworks (Apptio, NICE, or similar).
- Prior exposure to M&A integration architecture.
- Master's degree (MBA, MS-IS, MS-CS).
Responsibilities
- Set the architectural North Star. Own Arrow's enterprise-wide reference architecture spanning applications, data, integration, and platforms — aligned to Global Components, ECS, ArrowSphere, and corporate functions.
- Operate the hub-and-spoke model. Lead the central EA team and shape dotted-line accountability with domain/BU architects across Global Components, ECS, ArrowSphere, and shared services.
- Lead application rationalization. Inventory the application portfolio, score each on business value / cost / risk, and drive a credible 15–20% reduction in the maintained app count over the next benchmarking cycle.
- Drive Oracle modernization and ERP/CRM consolidation. Partner with the BUs to define our ERP and CRM strategy.
- Govern major investments. Chair the Architecture Review Board; ensure new initiatives fit a coherent target state, not a collection of point solutions.
- Publish capability maps and roadmaps. Maintain authoritative business capability maps, target architectures, and technology roadmaps that leadership uses to make investment decisions.
- Build the practice. Lead and grow a team of enterprise, solution, and domain architects; raise the bar on architectural artifacts (capability models, technology standards, integration patterns, reference designs).
- Inform the next benchmark. Quantify architectural impact (apps retired, platforms consolidated, technical debt burned down) in terms that show up in next year's ITFM submission.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- 401k, With Matching Contributions
- Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA)/Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) Options
- Paid Time Off (including sick, holiday, vacation, etc.)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Growth Opportunities
- Discounted RTD Passes, with convenient office location off RTD Light Rail (Dry Creek Exit)
- On-site Café with Catering Option for Busy Lifestyles
- 24/7/365 On-site Gym and Lockers, Free for Use to All Employees!
- Reinstatement return eligible
- Bike Racks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
