Enterprise Architect

Farm Credit Services of America•Omaha, NE

15h

About The Position

AgCountry Farm Credit Services, Farm Credit Services of America, and Frontier Farm Credit are financial cooperatives operating under shared management across eight states. They pool resources, expertise, and talent to provide affordable credit, crop insurance, and financial services to farmers, ranchers, and agribusinesses. The Enterprise Architect helps shape and align technology strategy with the company’s business vision. The role establishes enterprise architecture standards and guidelines, develops current- and future-state architecture models, and creates a holistic approach across technologies. The Enterprise Architect works with architecture and technology partners to evaluate solutions and ensure the technology environment supports changing business needs and goals. The role also provides design leadership and mentorship, guides solution delivery, and helps ensure architectural governance, assurance, and compliance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
10+ years of related experience in at least two IT solutions development disciplines, including solutions architecture, technical architecture, network management, applications development, data management, IT operations, or security.

Responsibilities

Define enterprise technology architecture objectives and establish associated policies, standards, and guidelines.
Guide Solution Architects and Lead Solution Developers to ensure solutions follow established policies, standards, and guidelines.
Propose and champion architectural improvements and redesigns.
Participate in holistic IT architecture planning to support future organizational needs.
Develop current-state and future-state architecture models that support organizational strategies and goals.
Design a holistic architecture approach across technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, and business requirements.
Identify organizational and financial impacts and benefits of solution architecture.
Document enterprise architecture designs.
Monitor current-state solutions and identify deficiencies due to aging technologies or misalignment with business requirements.
Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable evolving business and operating models.
Ensure the application portfolio is maintained.
Provide design leadership and mentorship to team members involved in solution delivery.
Partner with business owners to balance desired system features with sustainable technology solutions.
Collaborate with solution delivery teams to champion development architecture, coding standards, and security standards.
Advocate for agile and pragmatic development practices.
Collaborate with other architecture roles to define principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns aligned with the enterprise’s future-state architecture vision.
Design and lead governance activities to ensure solution architecture, assurance, and compliance.
Partner with project teams and organizational leadership to support effective execution of architecture plans.
Collaborate with cross-functional and functional teams to evaluate technology solutions that meet business needs and align with the organization’s technology architecture.
Develop proposals and estimates for technology solution design and implementation.