Enterprise Architect

Ericsson • Boise, ID

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

As the Enterprise Architect, you will shape and guide the technology landscape to enable business strategy, reduce complexity, and manage risk. You will define enterprise-wide architectural direction, influence investment decisions, and partner with business and technology leaders to modernize platforms, improve resilience, and accelerate delivery.
This role balances strategic thinking with hands-on architectural leadership, ensuring that solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with long-term enterprise goals.
This role will report to the Senior Director, BEWS Architecture & Integration Platforms

Requirements

• Strong experience in enterprise architecture, including business capability mapping, portfolio roadmapping, and value-based decision-making.
• Ability to connect business strategy to technology direction and execution.
• End-to-end perspective across applications, integration, data, infrastructure, and operations.
• Comfort operating across multiple time horizons—from near-term delivery to long-term transformation.
• Proven ability to embed non-functional requirements, resilience, and operational considerations into architectural designs.
• Familiarity with modern security architectures and reliability patterns.
• Solid grounding in modular design, reusability, automation, observability, and performance.
• Experience working closely with engineering teams to turn architecture into reality.
• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following: ERP and CRM modernization Data platform and analytics transformation API platform and integration modernization Aligning technology platforms to core business processes
• A collaborative thought leader who can influence without authority.
• Comfortable facilitating discussions, navigating trade-offs, and bringing diverse stakeholders along on architectural decisions.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or equivalent work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree is a plus.
• Architecture relevant Certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define, evolve, and socialize enterprise architecture principles, standards, policies, and guardrails aligned to business outcomes and an appropriate risk posture.
• Guide technology decision-making through architecture governance, trade-off analysis, and clear recommendations.
• Develop current and target state architectures across applications, data, integration, and infrastructure.
• Create capability-based roadmaps that align technology investments to business priorities.
• Identify modernization paths, technical debt reduction strategies, and portfolio rationalization opportunities.
• Recommend platform consolidation, lifecycle management, and decommissioning strategies to reduce complexity and total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Review and influence solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise reference architectures and non-functional requirements (security, reliability, performance, availability, and operability).
• Promote API-first, event-driven, and domain-aligned integration patterns.
• Enable reuse through shared services, platforms, and architectural patterns.
• Partner with data, security, and privacy teams to embed governance, classification, access controls, and zero-trust principles into solution designs.
• Ensure architectures meet regulatory, compliance, and risk management requirements.
• Maintain architecture models, decision records, and technology standards catalogs.
• Create, curate, and evolve reusable reference architectures and design patterns to accelerate delivery and improve consistency.

Benefits

• Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions offers excellent, competitive employee benefits, such as: subsidized, nationwide PPO medical benefit options including a low-deductible Point of Service Plan and a qualifying High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), with a generous company-provided HSA contribution.
• Our 401(k) plan has a 4% company match and immediate vesting.
• Employees will also receive company-paid employee basic life and AD&D insurance and company-paid disability benefits.
• New employees are provided a minimum of 15 days of accrued vacation, up to 3 personal days per year, 11 annual holidays, 8 hours of volunteer time, and 80 hours of sick time annually.
• Ericsson provides up to 16 weeks of paid maternity leave and 6 weeks of parental or adoption leave at 100% of pay.
• Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions offers other company-paid benefits such as a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program, mobile therapy, and volunteer paid time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees