Director, Enterprise Architecture

Fannie Mae • Plano, TX

1d • $200,000 - $269,000

About The Position

The Director, Enterprise Architecture is a senior leadership role responsible for advancing Fannie Mae’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) capability through Application Portfolio Management (APM), Technology Portfolio Management (Tools Rationalization), 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.

This leader partners with business and technology leadership to align investments to enterprise capabilities, reduce fragmentation, and enable modernization through platform strategies and portfolio optimization. The position plans and directs a team that designs and implements technological structures, creates process-driven solutions, and maintains or updates existing structures.

The role leads application and technology portfolio management, data-driven architecture, AI-enabled EA practices, EA platform and tooling strategy, and enterprise architecture leadership. It builds and leads a high-performing EA and Business Architecture team, influences senior leadership on enterprise architecture and CIO strategies, and defines and monitors OKRs and KPIs 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-level 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 industry experience improving EA capability.
• TOGAF certification.
• Business Architecture Guild CBA or equivalent certification.
• BIAN certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead APM enablement and enterprise engagement to assess application fit across business, technical, and cost dimensions and identify elimination, consolidation, and modernization opportunities.
• Drive rationalization of fragmented tools, end-user computing (EUC) solutions, and vendor platforms.
• Define platform strategies, including consolidation to shared platforms such as valuation, analytics, or ERP.
• Simplify the technology landscape by rationalizing and standardizing technology tools.
• Establish portfolio governance frameworks that turn recommendations into decisions and monitor rationalization and modernization execution over time.
• Provide senior leadership with clear, actionable performance insights to support data-driven decision-making.
• 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 EA as a data-driven discipline across capabilities, processes, information, applications, infrastructure, and security.
• Lead development and governance of the enterprise business capability model, ensuring consistency, non-duplication, and alignment across portfolios.
• Ensure consistent use of enterprise models across portfolios.
• Embed AI into EA workflows, including asset mapping, capability alignment, and insights generation.
• Enable intelligent decision support for portfolio and architecture governance.
• Champion AI integration into enterprise design and architecture processes.
• Define and evolve business capability models to support autonomous, AI-driven processes.
• Enable agentic operating models by championing an event-driven and capability-oriented enterprise business architecture.
• Lead strategy, governance, and adoption of EA tools such as Alfabet and ARIS.
• Ensure EA platform integration with portfolio, data, and reporting ecosystems.
• Standardize architecture artifacts and repositories.
• Drive full leverage of AI capabilities in EA tooling and processes.
• Build and lead a high-performing EA and Business Architecture team.
• Influence senior leadership on enterprise architecture and CIO strategies.
• Define and operationalize OKRs 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

• The role is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program, subject to program terms.
• 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