Enterprise Architect - Onsite

Danaher•Sunnyvale, CA

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect (EA) is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise-wide technology architecture to enable business strategy, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance. This role provides architecture leadership across applications, data, integration, cloud, and AI platforms, ensuring coherent, future-proof decisions across the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect acts as a strategic advisor to business and IT leaders, partners with Solution and Platform Architects, and serves as a key decision maker in architecture governance forums. This position reports to the Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) Leader and is part of Infrastructure and Operations team located in Sunnyvale, CA and will be an on-site role. In this role, you will have the opportunity to: EA Strategy & Value Realization: Develops the EA charter and services, promoting the value proposition and tracking outcome-driven metrics aligned with enterprise goals and Chief Information Officer priorities. Portfolio Optimization & Rationalization: Leads current-state analysis to detect gaps, recommend investments, and rationalize the technology portfolio using models like TIME to reduce technical debt. Standards & Delivery Alignment: Defines enterprise architecture principles and target-state roadmaps across key domains (Cloud, AI, Data, Security) while collaborating with delivery teams to ensure reuse and speed to market. Governance & Guardrails: Leads architecture governance and design reviews for major initiatives, ensuring scalability and compliance with security, privacy, and AI agent lifecycle decision boundaries. Strategic Partnership & Advisory: Partners with business and IT leaders to shape technology demand, guide build-vs-buy decisions, and communicate architectural trade-offs regarding cost, risk, and complexity.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
10+ years of experience in enterprise architect role.
Ability to balance the long-term and short-term implications of individual decisions and organizational goals.
Ability to influence without authority and communicate effectively with executive, business, and technical stakeholders.
Understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, such as generative AI and its applications.

Nice To Haves

Enterprise architecture frameworks and modeling (TOGAF, ArchiMate, UML, capability and process modeling).
Designing systems with security, privacy, and compliance in mind includes identity and access management, encryption, secure architecture, and operating within regulated environments.
Experience in EA tools like SAP LeanIX

Responsibilities

Develops the EA charter and services, promoting the value proposition and tracking outcome-driven metrics aligned with enterprise goals and Chief Information Officer priorities.
Leads current-state analysis to detect gaps, recommend investments, and rationalize the technology portfolio using models like TIME to reduce technical debt.
Defines enterprise architecture principles and target-state roadmaps across key domains (Cloud, AI, Data, Security) while collaborating with delivery teams to ensure reuse and speed to market.
Leads architecture governance and design reviews for major initiatives, ensuring scalability and compliance with security, privacy, and AI agent lifecycle decision boundaries.
Partners with business and IT leaders to shape technology demand, guide build-vs-buy decisions, and communicate architectural trade-offs regarding cost, risk, and complexity.