Enterprise Architect - Employee Support Systems - HR, Real Estate and Legal technology

Verizon Communications • Irving, TX

116d • $120,500 - $231,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Enterprise Architect with a strong background in employee supporting systems to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of business processes, employee systems, and technology solutions, with a proven track record of successfully defining Northstar architectures and driving enterprise roadmaps with business partners and vendors. You will define, publish and maintain Northstar Architecture documentation and be architecturally responsible for the alignment and evolution of Employee HR/Payroll/Benefit, Real Estate, and Legal solutions in order to meet platform strategy and optimization targets. Working alongside data architects, you will be responsible for architecture spanning the entire Employee HR/Payroll/Benefit, Real Estate, and Legal landscape, to address complex business challenges. You will leverage your experience to extract meaningful insights from data and drive data-driven decision making.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Experience as an Enterprise Architect, with a focus on cloud-based Enterprise HR/Payroll/Benefit, Real Estate, and Legal solutions.
• Experience with Employee HR/Payroll/Benefit, Real Estate, and Legal COTS products.
• Experience with leading Enterprise HR/Payroll/Benefits solutions (Workday, Peoplesoft, etc.).
• Experience with leading Real Estate solutions (IBM Tririga, etc.).
• Experience with leading Legal solutions (Harvey, LexisNexis, Luminance, Tymetric, etc.).

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in a related field.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
• Proven ability to design and implement complex enterprise-wide solutions.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrable experience in articulating the business drivers and architectural approach/trade-offs during discussions for solution buy-in at various levels.
• Ability to break down complex topics into simple-to-digest information and data points, adjusted to audiences at various levels.
• Ability to facilitate group meetings/discussions.
• Ability to broker solutions for issues between functional domains, senior leaders.
• Strong understanding of financial accounting principles and practices.

Responsibilities

• Defining and maintaining the enterprise architecture roadmap for Employee HR/Payroll/Benefit, Real Estate, and Legal solutions, aligning with overall business strategy and objectives.
• Leading the design and implementation of Employee HR/Payroll/Benefit, Real Estate, and Legal solutions, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance with industry best practices.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to gather requirements, analyze business needs, and develop comprehensive solutions.
• Evaluating and recommending emerging technologies and trends in the Employee HR / Payroll / Benefit, Real Estate, and Legal solutions space.
• Continually working internally and externally with subject matter experts on identifying best-in-class architecture solutions for pain points common to Employee HR/Payroll/Benefit systems, Real Estate systems, and Legal systems.
• Leveraging standardized architecture frameworks (TOGAF, TMForum, etc.) that drive repeatable processes, technology efficiencies and improvements, governance, and a dynamic Northstar architecture.
• Driving Application & Portfolio Rationalization recommendations to either Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, or Eliminate (Gartner TIME model) existing Employee HR/Payroll/Benefit, Real Estate, and Legal systems.
• Publishing build vs buy decisions, and determining on-prem vs cloud tenancy for relevant functions based on TCO, speed and scale, vendor maturity and support, and operational effectiveness.
• Developing and maintaining architectural documentation, including diagrams, policies, and standards into a centralized architecture repository.
• Providing technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members.
• Driving roadmap (product and vendor-based) of IT patterns and trends for quarterly executive review.
• Engaging in Strategic Planning, Project Planning, & Ongoing Operations to ensure IT alignment with business goals.
• Fostering the creation of Business Process Maps for alignment to system architecture choices and decisions.
• Holding Architecture Review Board, TechTalk, and similar presentations for mass communications.
• Partnering with business and IT stakeholders to align with business drivers and product strategy across various lines of business, and apply service-oriented architecture, microservices architecture patterns and cloud native principles to deliver architecture artifacts.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance.
• Short and long term disability.
• Basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance.
• Identity theft protection.
• Pet insurance and group home & auto insurance.
• Matched 401(k) savings plan.
• Stock incentive programs.
• Up to 8 company paid holidays per year.
• Up to 6 personal days per year.
• Parental leave and adoption assistance.
• Tuition assistance.
• Up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Telecommunications
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees