Enterprise Architect

SHI International•Austin, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect is a hands-on technology leader who shapes the organization’s technology landscape through portfolio analysis, lifecycle planning, architecture governance, technology roadmaps, standards, and strategic decision-making. The role partners with business and technology teams to understand and rationalize application and technology portfolios, identify modernization opportunities, guide lifecycle and investment decisions, and align architecture principles and standards with business strategy. Particular emphasis is placed on application and software architecture, application modernization, and emerging AI capabilities. The architect brings deep expertise in one or more of these areas and collaborates with Domain, Platform, Solution, and Technical Architects across infrastructure, cloud, data, integration, and cybersecurity to drive enterprise-level decisions and actionable outcomes. The position is based in the Austin, Texas or Somerset, New Jersey office and requires hybrid work. The Enterprise Architect contributes to current-, target-, and transition-state architectures; helps develop enterprise and technology roadmaps; leads or participates in portfolio rationalization and architecture reviews; and creates practical architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails. The role also supports technology and vendor evaluations, translates strategic priorities into architecture deliverables and initiatives, resolves cross-domain challenges, maintains architecture artifacts and portfolio information, and evaluates emerging technologies and industry trends. SHI International Corp. is a global provider of IT solutions and services. The company highlights its commitment to diversity, continuous professional growth and leadership opportunities, health, wellness, and financial benefits, and access to facilities and technology for employees working in offices or remotely.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or equivalent professional experience.
10+ years of progressive technology experience, including 5+ years in architecture, technology strategy, or large-scale technology transformation.
Demonstrated experience personally producing architecture artifacts, including architecture models, roadmaps, principles, standards, reference architectures, and assessments.
Experience performing application or technology portfolio rationalization and developing modernization strategies.
Experience leading or participating in architecture reviews and facilitating complex technology decisions and trade-offs.
Deep expertise in at least one architecture domain, such as applications/software, infrastructure/cloud, data/integration, cybersecurity, or AI, with sufficient breadth to work across adjacent domains.
Strong ability to connect business capabilities and objectives to technology architecture and investment decisions.
Strong executive, business, and technical communication and facilitation skills.
Intermediate ability to create clear and effective technical documentation.
Intermediate technical knowledge and proficiency across multiple technology areas to provide expert guidance and solutions.
Intermediate ability to implement and manage DevOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and monitoring.
Intermediate experience with project management frameworks such as Agile, Waterfall, and Scrum.
Intermediate understanding and implementation of system security best practices and measures.
Intermediate ability to oversee and direct projects to completion, ensuring goals are met, resources are used efficiently, and stakeholders are satisfied.
Intermediate ability to design, develop, and integrate APIs.
Intermediate expertise in designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based solutions for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

Nice To Haves

Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.

Responsibilities

Contribute to current-state, target-state, and transition architectures across business and technology teams.
Participate in developing enterprise and technology roadmaps, identifying modernization priorities, dependencies, sequencing, and investment needs.
Lead and perform application and technology rationalization, assessing business capability alignment, technical health, cost, risk, duplication, and strategic fit.
Lead and participate in Architecture Review Boards and architecture reviews; facilitate decisions, document outcomes, manage exceptions, and drive issues to resolution.
Develop and contribute to architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails for architecture and delivery teams.
Partner with Domain and Platform Architects to align strategies, standards, roadmaps, and lifecycle decisions with enterprise priorities and identify cross-domain dependencies, gaps, and opportunities.
Participate in strategic technology and vendor evaluations, including build, buy, reuse, modernize, consolidate, and retire decisions.
Translate strategic priorities into actionable architecture deliverables and technology initiatives with business and technology teams.
Collaborate with Solution Architects, Technical Architects, engineering, infrastructure, security, data, and AI teams to resolve cross-domain architecture challenges and move decisions into execution.
Create and maintain architecture artifacts and portfolio information, including assessments, roadmaps, standards, technology lifecycle positions, and architecture decisions.
Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends and translate relevant findings into practical architecture guidance and actions.
Lead others through change, solve complex problems, communicate effectively with diverse audiences, and support continuous improvement and accurate documentation.