Director, Enterprise Architecture

Fannie Mae • Reston, VA

5d • $200,000 - $269,000

About The Position

The Director, Enterprise Architecture is a senior leadership role responsible for advancing Fannie Mae’s Enterprise Architecture capability through Application Portfolio Management (APM), Technology Portfolio Management (TPM), and AI-enabled architecture practices. The role manages EA platforms and drives transformation toward a model-driven enterprise design to improve decision-making, reduce portfolio complexity, and accelerate delivery through automation, AI, and standardized architectural models. It partners with business and technology leadership to align investments with enterprise capabilities, reduce fragmentation, and enable modernization through platform strategies and portfolio optimization.

The Director plans and directs a team that designs and implements technological structures, creates process-driven solutions, and maintains or updates existing structures. The role leads the enterprise’s architecture, portfolio governance, tooling, and transformation practices, and defines and monitors objectives and performance measures aligned with enterprise strategy.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, and Technology Strategy.
• Proven leadership in Application Portfolio Management (APM) and portfolio rationalization.
• Experience driving technology portfolio consolidation and cost optimization initiatives.
• Strong experience with enterprise capability modeling and model-driven architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and lead cross-functional transformation.
• Experience working in large, complex financial services or enterprise environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex concepts into actionable insights.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience implementing or governing enterprise models, such as capability models and APM frameworks.
• Experience integrating AI into enterprise architecture or portfolio management practices.
• Experience with EA platforms such as Alfabet, ARIS, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with agentic or autonomous enterprise concepts and event-driven architectures.
• Enterprise-level Financial Services experience improving the Enterprise Architecture capability.
• TOGAF certification.
• Business Architecture Guild CBA or equivalent certification.
• BIAN certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead Application Portfolio Management enablement and enterprise engagement to assess applications for business, technical, and cost fit, and identify elimination, consolidation, and modernization opportunities.
• Drive rationalization of fragmented tools, end-user computing (EUC) solutions, and vendor platforms.
• Define platform strategies, such as consolidating onto shared platforms for valuation, analytics, or ERP.
• Simplify the technology landscape by rationalizing and standardizing technology tools.
• Establish portfolio governance frameworks that convert recommendations into decisions and monitor rationalization and modernization execution.
• Provide actionable, data-driven performance insights to senior leadership.
• Track outcomes such as application reduction, cost savings, platform consolidation, and AI adoption impact.
• Partner with Finance and Technology leaders to align portfolio outcomes with measurable business value.
• Advance Enterprise Architecture as a data-driven discipline spanning capabilities, processes, information, applications, infrastructure, and security.
• Lead development and governance of the enterprise business capability model, ensuring consistency, avoiding duplication, and aligning it across portfolios.
• Ensure consistent use of enterprise models across portfolios.
• Embed AI into Enterprise Architecture workflows, including asset mapping, capability alignment, and insights generation.
• Enable intelligent decision support for portfolio and architecture governance and champion AI integration into enterprise design and architecture processes.
• Evolve business capability models to support autonomous, AI-driven processes and champion event-driven, capability-oriented enterprise business architecture for agentic operating models.
• Lead strategy, governance, and adoption of Enterprise Architecture tools such as Alfabet and ARIS.
• Integrate EA platforms with portfolio, data, and reporting ecosystems; standardize architecture artifacts and repositories; and maximize AI capabilities in EA tooling and processes.
• Build and lead a high-performing Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture team.
• Influence senior leadership on enterprise architecture and CIO strategies.
• Define and operationalize Objectives and Key Results aligned to enterprise strategy for EA, APM, and portfolio transformation.
• Establish and monitor KPIs for portfolio health, rationalization progress, cost optimization, and platform adoption.

Benefits

• Eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program, subject to its terms.
• Comprehensive benefits package covering Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks supporting physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director