Enterprise Architect – ST

Exciting•Phoenix, AZ

15d•Hybrid

About The Position

SwitchThink Solutions is a fast-growing technology company supporting Desert Financial Credit Union and more than 175 external credit unions. Its offerings include solutions built on the Correlation Keystone Platform, managed services, cloud hosting, disaster recovery, business intelligence, and AI. The company describes itself as collaborative and team-oriented, backed by Desert Financial Credit Union, with opportunities for growth. The Enterprise Architect leads enterprise-scale solution design across complex business ecosystems, particularly business applications, integrations, data flows, and technology capabilities supporting critical operations. The role partners with business and technology leaders to assess current environments, shape target architectures, and translate strategic needs into standards, roadmaps, and technology investment priorities. As a hands-on architecture leader and trusted technical advisor, this person directs architecture for large, multi-year, multi-domain initiatives from discovery and planning through detailed design, implementation, and transition to operations. The role establishes architecture governance, principles, reference architectures, technology standards, roadmaps, lifecycle direction, and exception-management practices. It also evaluates technologies, platforms, vendors, sourcing approaches, and modernization options; facilitates architecture governance and design reviews; and ensures solutions address security, regulatory, resilience, and data-governance requirements. The Enterprise Architect works with engineers and delivery teams to validate architectural intent and prepare appropriate operational documentation, support models, and lifecycle ownership, while coaching architects and engineers and promoting reusable, consistent practices.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, integration architecture, or related enterprise technology roles.
5+ years leading architecture for large enterprise or transformation initiatives spanning multiple business capabilities, applications, integrations, technology domains, and delivery teams.
5+ years working as a trusted technical advisor to business and technology executives, with the ability to facilitate discovery, navigate ambiguity, influence across organizational boundaries, and communicate complex architectural tradeoffs in clear business terms.
Broad architecture expertise across business capabilities, enterprise applications, integrations, APIs, data flows, cloud and infrastructure services, security, identity, and operational dependencies.
Ability to assess complex current-state ecosystems and produce clear conceptual, logical, and solution architecture designs.
Strong command of integration patterns, interoperability, platform boundaries, nonfunctional requirements, and technology lifecycle planning.
Ability to connect business capability maps, process needs, data movement, and technology components into cohesive target-state architectures.
Ability to lead through influence and serve as the technical point of direction for large, multi-year, multi-domain initiatives.
Experience developing and applying architecture principles, reference architectures, standards, roadmaps, lifecycle positions, and exception processes.
Ability to evaluate architecture decisions against security, regulatory, privacy, resilience, capacity, supportability, and data-governance requirements.
Ability to document decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and technical debt.
Accountability for architecture from discovery and planning through detailed design, implementation guidance, validation, and transition to operations.
Ability to collaborate with engineers and delivery teams to turn architectural intent into buildable designs and production-ready solutions.
Advanced proficiency with enterprise architecture methods and modeling techniques, including capability, application, integration, information-flow, deployment, and transition-state views.
Ability to create reusable patterns, architecture artifacts, decision records, operational documentation, and support-transition requirements.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree, such as a Master's in a technical discipline or an MBA.
1+ years of experience in financial services, banking, credit unions, or another regulated enterprise environment.
Prior experience developing enterprise architecture roadmaps, reference architectures, technology standards, and governance practices within a complex enterprise or consulting environment.
Experience with architecture repositories or modeling tools.
TOGAF certification or a comparable enterprise architecture framework credential.
Current cloud or solution architecture certification from a major enterprise technology provider.

Responsibilities

Partner with business and technology leaders to connect enterprise priorities, business capabilities, operating processes, and constraints to current-state assessments, target-state architectures, sequenced roadmaps, and technology investment priorities.
Identify opportunities to simplify the application portfolio, reduce duplication and technical debt, and improve enterprise value.
Lead planning and development of secure, scalable, and resilient architectures across business capabilities, applications, integrations, APIs, enterprise data and information flows, cloud and infrastructure services, security, identity, and operational dependencies.
Address data ownership, quality, lineage, interoperability, retention, and appropriate use in enterprise designs.
Define and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, integration patterns, technology roadmaps, lifecycle positions, and exception-management practices.
Establish architecture decision rights, engagement expectations, and reusable practices for consistent decisions across architecture and delivery teams.
Serve as technical leader and architecture decision owner for large, multi-year, multi-domain initiatives, aligning stakeholders around coherent designs, measurable business outcomes, and architecture success criteria.
Evaluate technologies, platforms, vendor solutions, sourcing approaches, and modernization options for strategic fit, interoperability, total cost of ownership, risk, supportability, vendor viability, and long-term business value.
Facilitate architecture governance and design reviews; document decisions, dependencies, risks, and exceptions; and ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and regulatory, security, resilience, and data-governance requirements.
Coach architects and engineers, share reusable practices, and promote consistent architecture methods across teams.
Work with engineers and delivery teams to refine and build approved designs, validate architectural intent during implementation, and enable transition to operations with appropriate documentation, support models, and lifecycle ownership.
Convert ambiguous business strategies, processes, and requirements into actionable architectural direction through structured discovery.
Communicate architectural options, dependencies, value, cost, and risk to executives in clear business terms.
Facilitate architecture workshops, design reviews, and decision forums involving business leaders, architects, engineers, vendors, and operations.
Apply architecture methods and modeling techniques, including capability, application, integration, information-flow, deployment, and transition-state views.