Enterprise Architect

Subway•Shelton, CT

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect enables business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the organization’s long-term strategic vision. The role defines technology strategy for the enterprise and individual business domains based on Subway’s business strategy, and develops principles, standards, roadmaps, guidance, and best practices to support technology delivery. Expertise in finance, legacy systems, and modern ERP platforms will help drive innovation and efficiency across the corporate technology landscape. The Enterprise Architect assesses and modernizes the technology landscape, develops and maintains enterprise and reference architectures, and governs architecture standards and compliance. The role partners with business and IT leaders, Solution Architects, project and product teams, and external partners to align solutions with target-state architecture, manage technology risks and investment opportunities, and report on technology capabilities and landscape health.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
10+ years of professional experience as a developer and/or manager in an Application, Systems, Database, or Integration team across different industries.
5+ years of experience working with system architecture spanning legacy, on-premise, web, cloud, and modern as-a-service technologies at scale.
10+ years of relevant work experience, including consulting and general industry experience.
Deep understanding of corporate finance principles, including Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), general ledger management, and financial reporting.
Familiarity with modern ERP systems such as SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Cloud ERP, or Workday Financial Management.
Advanced-level, production-proven technical competency in a major enterprise development platform such as .NET, Java, or equivalent.
Advanced-level System Architecture and Design skills and experience.
Advanced-level Systems Integration skills and experience.
Advanced interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
Advanced written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate abstract concepts verbally, in writing, and visually at most levels of the organization.
Ability to translate technical information into business language and concepts.
Ability to collaborate effectively in a geographically distributed environment.
Demonstrated ability to develop technology strategies that support IT and business strategies.
Experience identifying, analyzing, and proposing IT investment opportunities.
Experience in the discovery, analysis, and application of industry trends.
Experience identifying, analyzing, and mitigating technology risks.
Ability to work effectively with external partners and vendors and be an excellent team player.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
3+ years of experience managing staff.

Responsibilities

Assess the current technology landscape, including applications, infrastructure, data architecture, and integration points.
Develop a strategic roadmap for modernizing corporate technology assets, prioritizing initiatives by business value, risk, and feasibility.
Work with business and IT leaders to understand long-term business needs and explain how technology trade-offs influence strategy.
Direct research and evaluation of emerging technologies and industry and market trends.
Lead development of enterprise architectures that support emerging business strategies.
Develop and manage enterprise capability models and technology roadmaps.
Develop and manage Enterprise Reference Architectures.
Facilitate the co-creation of conceptual, logical, and physical architectures across cloud, network, security, and privacy.
Develop and communicate Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, and guidelines across IT delivery teams.
Develop and maintain current-state and target-state Enterprise Architectures and Enterprise Architecture roadmaps.
Develop and communicate architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
Assess project solution architectures for compliance with standards and best practices, and recommend ways to address non-compliance.
Develop and maintain strategic technology evaluation and technical debt tracking processes.
Lead the Architecture Review Board and ensure solutions comply with target-state architecture models.
Participate in architecture communities of practice and workgroups for Subway functional and architecture domains.
Coordinate with Solution Architects across IT domains to align work with target-state architecture and help project teams solve complex architectural challenges within business constraints.
Review project and product architectures and make design decisions collaboratively with domain Solution Architects.
Advise on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities.
Collaborate with project and product management and IT leaders to ensure progress toward architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.
Develop and promote application security best practices, patterns, and reference implementations.
Support corporate and customer IAM platform architecture development.
Report on capability progression in relation to future-state architecture.
Develop and report on the utilization of design patterns and reusable services, and acceleration of velocity.
Define and report on the health of the technology landscape.