Enterprise Architecture Process Lead

Mizuho•New York, NY

4d•$200,000 - $260,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Mizuho’s IT Enterprise Architecture team develops, governs, and evolves enterprise architecture to align technology with business objectives, promoting consistency, reuse, and simplification across the enterprise. The team provides leadership and guidance on architecture principles, standards, and guardrails. The Enterprise Architecture Process Lead owns the end-to-end design, optimization, and tooling of Mizuho’s enterprise architecture processes to strengthen governance and improve transparency across the technology landscape. This hands-on role defines and continuously improves EA workflows; manages the EA tooling ecosystem, including the architecture repository, Enterprise Architecture Intake, Approved Tech Stack workflows, and reporting dashboards; partners with Operations and Governance Leads on procedures and standards alignment; and enables the Architecture Community of Practice through training and rollout. The position requires office attendance at least 50% of the time, or five out of every 10 business days. Specific attendance requirements will be communicated during recruitment. The expected base salary is $200,000–$260,000. In addition to salary and an employee benefits package, successful candidates are eligible for a discretionary bonus.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture, architecture governance, or IT process/operating-model design, including hands-on ownership of end-to-end EA processes, workflows, and continuous improvement.
Prior experience in the financial industry, such as a bank, broker-dealer, asset manager, or fintech.
Working knowledge of technology risk, audit, and control expectations in a regulated financial services environment, including policy and standard compliance, exception handling, and documentation discipline.
Experience designing and improving architecture governance workflows, including intake, design review, architecture review boards or councils, decision records, and deployment readiness.
Ability to define workflow entry and exit criteria, outputs, ownership, and controls evidence.
Experience defining and maintaining operating models, including RACI, engagement and interaction models, and escalation paths across architecture roles and delivery and governance stakeholders.
Experience managing EA and architecture tooling, including architecture repositories, intake and approved tech stack workflows, and ITSM/CMDB platforms, with data quality management, governance workflow configuration, and process automation.
Proficiency in reporting and visualization tools such as Excel, SQL, Power BI, or Tableau to build dashboards and KPIs for process health, throughput, cycle time, decision volumes, standards adherence, and governance outcomes.
Ability to partner with Operations and Governance leads, engineering, infrastructure, and security to drive outcomes through influence, define SOPs and service levels, align process design with standards and guardrails, and manage exceptions and escalations.
Strong documentation and process design skills, including authoring operating procedures, playbooks, RACI models, and controls evidence, and continuously improving workflows, taxonomies, and governance cadences.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Ability to design and enforce EA processes and standards, build target-state operating models, and communicate process performance and governance insights through clear dashboards and executive-ready narratives.

Nice To Haves

Experience enabling an Architecture Community of Practice through training and rollout.
An advanced degree and/or relevant certifications such as TOGAF, BIAN, ITIL, FinOps, or TBM.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end Enterprise Architecture process design, optimization, and tooling by establishing workflows, governance touchpoints, operating procedures, and continuous improvement mechanisms.
Define, maintain, and improve EA workflows from intake through solution design review, Architecture Review Council decisioning, Architecture Decision Record capture, and deployment readiness, with clear criteria, outputs, ownership, and controls evidence.
Own the EA Operating Model, including the RACI, engagement model, escalation paths, and interaction model across Enterprise, Group, Solution, and Domain Architects.
Manage EA tooling and workflow enablement, including the architecture repository, Enterprise Architecture Intake, Approved Tech Stack workflows, data quality routines, reporting dashboards, and process automation.
Partner with the Operations Lead on standard operating procedures, service levels, intake practices, and execution cadences, and coordinate with the Governance Lead to align process design with architecture standards, guardrails, policies, and control requirements.
Develop training materials, rollout plans, playbooks, and communications for Architecture Community of Practice enablement and adoption of EA processes and workflows.