Enterprise Architect

Allegion•Carmel, IN

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and documenting the architecture of Allegion’s enterprise technology landscape, including commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platforms, custom-built applications, cloud services, data platforms, and integrations. This role reports within the Enterprise Architecture organization and works across global business and IT teams to shape enterprise-wide technology direction, guide solution decisions, and strengthen architecture governance. The Enterprise Architect provides guidance to delivery teams to ensure that IT solutions align with enterprise standards, architecture principles, and business strategy. The Enterprise Architect will approach problems with a mindset of balancing delivery of business objectives with long-term stability, scalability, reusability, technical feasibility, security, and global applicability. This role requires close partnership with business stakeholders, solution architects, and technical leaders to align business goals with technology strategy and enable successful delivery through the Global Portfolio Management (GPM) process. Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. The company does not intend to provide sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, TN, etc.) for this employment position. At Allegion, we are driven by a bold vision: redefining safety while empowering our employees to thrive. When you join our team, you become part of a culture that values innovation, purpose, and excellence. This role offers the benefits of our dynamic hybrid work model—combining in-person collaboration for meaningful moments with the flexibility of remote work. Since hybrid arrangements can vary based on the needs of the individual, team and business, your talent acquisition partner will provide specific hybrid details about this role. We are committed to fostering a work-life balance and building meaningful connections, ensuring you have the tools, resources, and support needed to excel in any environment. Together, we’ll unlock your potential and create a lasting impact. While this is the current structure and we currently have no plans to change, we reserve the right to make changes to the hybrid schedule as needed at the Company’s discretion.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology related discipline
10+ years of proven experience working within large manufacturing or distribution operations.
10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, application architecture, or related design roles.
Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, solution design practices, and architecture governance.
Experience working across COTS platforms, SaaS solutions, custom applications, APIs, data platforms, and cloud-based services.
Ability to assess technology options for business fit, scalability, integration complexity, security, lifecycle risk, and alignment with enterprise standards.
Knowledge of integration architecture patterns, including APIs, middleware, microservices, event-driven architecture, and enterprise integration platforms.
Experience with cloud platforms and modern architecture practices, including cloud-first, API-first, data-driven design, automation, and reusable platform capabilities.
Ability to analyze business processes and translate business needs into practical technology strategies, architecture recommendations, and implementation guidance.
Experience with application portfolio management, lifecycle management, rationalization, modernization planning, and technology simplification.
Strong understanding of security, compliance, risk management, technical debt, and architecture-related implementation risks.
Ability to communicate architecture direction, options, trade-offs, and recommendations across technical, business, delivery, and leadership audiences.
Strong collaboration, facilitation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills in a global, matrixed environment.
Ability to guide solution architects, delivery teams, and technology stakeholders through enterprise standards, reference patterns, and architecture best practices.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities, ambiguity, and enterprise-wide dependencies.

Nice To Haves

Experience with enterprise architecture repositories, modeling tools, or portfolio management platforms
Understanding of widely used enterprise architecture frameworks and methods such as TOGAF ADM, Gartner EA practices, or similar approaches.
Exposure to AI, automation, data platforms, cloud modernization, or enterprise integration initiatives in a large global organization.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain a comprehensive view of enterprise architecture across applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, cloud services, and enterprise technology platforms.
Provide visibility into the enterprise application and technology portfolio to support lifecycle management, rationalization, modernization, and investment decisions.
Collaborate on business capability mapping and portfolio analysis to identify opportunities to reduce redundancy, simplify processes, improve customer experience, and increase business and technology alignment.
Provide architecture guidance across COTS platforms, SaaS solutions, custom applications, APIs, data platforms, and cloud-native services.
Evaluate commercial off-the-shelf, SaaS, and packaged software options for business fit, integration capability, scalability, security, lifecycle risk, total cost of ownership, and alignment with enterprise standards.
Analyze business processes and recommend system, data, integration, and architecture improvements that support scalable and reusable enterprise solutions.
Design and guide enterprise architecture reference patterns covering applications, integrations, data, cloud environments, and shared technology capabilities.
Advise on integration design across systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, observability, data consistency, and security across APIs, middleware, event-driven architecture, and enterprise integration platforms.
Support adoption of modern architecture practices, including cloud-first, API-first, data-driven design, automation, and reusable platform capabilities.
Ensure technology solutions align with business strategy, enterprise standards, security requirements, architecture principles, and approved governance processes.
Lead or contribute to architecture review boards and governance processes by preparing review materials, documenting decisions and exceptions, tracking remediation actions, and promoting reuse of approved standards and patterns.
Ensure alignment of solution architecture decisions within the Global Portfolio Management (GPM) process and support traceability between business objectives, capabilities, systems, risks, and investment decisions.
Identify technical risks, architecture gaps, lifecycle concerns, and implementation dependencies; recommend practical mitigation strategies and modernization paths.
Support innovation by evaluating emerging technologies and trends such as AI, cloud services, automation, data platforms, and enterprise integration capabilities for practical business value and enterprise fit.
Communicate architecture direction and trade-offs across business, IT, delivery, and leadership audiences, and mentor solution architects and development teams on architecture standards and best practices.