Enterprise Architect (954)

American Builders and Contractors Supply Co • Beloit, WI

14h

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect (EA) translates enterprise strategy into cohesive, scalable, and secure architectural guardrails and patterns. EAs steward target architecture components, principles, and standards within their domains; build reusable assets (reference architectures, starter kits, decision templates); and coach Solution Architects, Business Architects, and engineering teams to accelerate flow and reduce risk and technical debt. Governance is delivered through enablement and automation—favoring exception-only ARB reviews. EAs operate in a product-centric, flow-based environment where Solution Architects are embedded by portfolio and typically support value streams each; EA assets must be consumable at portfolio scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field—or equivalent experience
• 8–12 years across solution and/or enterprise architecture, application/platform engineering, or technology strategy
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, containers, eventing/queues, and integration patterns
• Expertise in secure architecture and compliance-aware design (e.g., PCI DSS)
• Change management experience
• Familiarity with EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) applied pragmatically—not dogmatically
• Strong documentation skills (ADRs, reference models)
• Comfortable with Agile and Waterfall
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Systems thinking and business acumen
• Enablement-first leadership
• Consultative influence
• Architectural storytelling
• Decision transparency
• Lean governance and automation mindset (policy-as-code, CI/CD)
• Outcome focus and disciplined innovation
• Trusted, pragmatic, and vendor-neutral
• Future-focused and adaptable
• Comfortable shifting between strategic guidance and in-the-weeds collaboration
• Obsessed with clarity, flow, and continuous improvement

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve minimal viable standards and guardrails that enable autonomous delivery at portfolio scale
• Author domain reference architectures and reusable patterns; keep catalogs current and mapped to portfolio needs
• Embed architectural enablement within value streams through coaching and self-service tooling for Solution Architects
• Make technical debt visible and actionable; drive remediation plans with product/platform teams
• Ensure non-functional requirements (security, reliability, scalability, performance, operability) are met consistently
• Document current and future-state architectures; publish capability/platform heatmaps
• Maintain principles (cloud-first, API-first/composable, event-driven, zero-trust) and minimal viable standards
• Author and maintain reference architectures and pattern catalogs (integration, data, identity, security)
• Evolve standards pragmatically from pilot outcomes and risk posture; avoid dogmatic frameworks
• Contribute to ARB; prioritize automation (policy-as-code, CI/CD checks, registries) over manual approvals
• Prepare decision records (ADRs) and publish outcomes; design exception paths for novel/high-risk changes
• Measure adherence via automated checks; reduce exception load through enablement assets
• Partner with Solution Architects and engineering leads to design fit-for-purpose solutions aligned to enterprise patterns
• Provide integration templates, data-flow models, performance/scalability guidance, and security-by-design patterns
• Offer embedded coaching; prefer guardrails and self-service over gatekeeping
• Contribute architectural input to the rolling 3-year enterprise roadmap and quarterly plans
• Identify modernization/migration paths
• Quantify architectural risk and technical debt to inform prioritization
• Link architectural decisions to business value metrics and outcomes
• Collaborate with Security, Data, and Infrastructure architects to harmonize domain standards with enterprise guardrails
• Ensure solutions meet regulatory/compliance needs (e.g., PCI DSS, privacy)
• Publish cross-domain patterns (identity, data governance, observability, resilience) and migration guides

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage - eligible after 60 days, low out of pocket
• 401(k) with generous company match - eligible after 60 days, immediately vested
• Employer paid employee assistance program
• Employer paid short term and long-term disability
• Employer paid life insurance
• Flex spending
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick days
• Paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees