Enterprise Architect

SHI International Corp.•Austin, TX

3d•$185,000 - $220,000•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 works with business and technology teams to understand and rationalize the application and technology portfolio, identify modernization opportunities, guide lifecycle and investment decisions, and align technology principles and standards with business strategy. The position operates across the broader technology landscape, with particular emphasis on application and software architecture, application modernization, and emerging AI capabilities. The Enterprise Architect brings deep expertise in one or more 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 role is required to report to SHI’s Austin, Texas, or Somerset, New Jersey, office on a hybrid basis.

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 demonstrated technical knowledge and proficiency in 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 ability to understand and implement system security best practices and measures.
Intermediate ability to oversee and direct projects through 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 to optimize 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.
Perform and lead application and technology rationalization, evaluating 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 connect domain and platform strategies, standards, roadmaps, and lifecycle decisions to 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.
Partner with business and technology teams to translate strategic priorities into actionable architecture deliverables and technology initiatives.
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.