Principal Enterprise Architect

SRP • Tempe, AZ

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect position, within the Architecture & Governance Services team, provides leadership and vision for SRP's technology strategy, architecture, and governance. Enterprise Architects work closely with business organizations to solve complex business challenges and align technology investments to business outcomes. They possess broad technology and architectural expertise, along with the ability to develop an understanding of business capabilities and strategic objectives, enabling them to guide decision-making, shape technology direction, and help ensure technology capabilities support the organization's goals. This role plays a key part in bringing together multiple architectural disciplines to create a cohesive enterprise perspective that connects organizational strategy to execution through portfolios, programs, and projects. The Enterprise Architect understands and communicates the enterprise vision to the architecture community and project delivery teams, providing guidance and influence that promotes alignment, consistency, and adoption of architectural best practices across the organization. The Enterprise Architect proactively supports enterprise transformation and optimization initiatives by helping formulate business and technology strategy, supporting roadmaps, and promoting alignment across portfolios, programs, and solutions. This role takes an enterprise-wide perspective to help achieve desired business outcomes while optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving the speed and effectiveness of technology delivery. Acting as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders, the Enterprise Architect helps ensure solutions, resources, and investments work together cohesively to advance SRP's strategic goals.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree relevant to the assignment from an accredited institution is preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience is required. In lieu of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience totaling 14 years may be considered.
• Ability to effectively communicate with and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• The ability to evaluate technology decisions in the context of business capabilities, organizational priorities, and enterprise goals.
• Experience participating in large-scale business and technology transformation initiatives.
• Experience applying Business Architecture concepts such as business capabilities, value streams, and operating models.
• Experience developing enterprise frameworks, reference architectures, technology strategies, and roadmaps supporting complex technology portfolios.
• Ability to translate strategic direction into technology policies and standards, frameworks, and implementation guidance.
• Understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF and Zachman.
• Broad technical depth across multiple domains (e.g. enterprise systems, cloud platforms, data and analytics, infrastructure, networking, applications, and operational technologies).
• Experience designing and guiding the delivery of technology solutions across information technology and operational technology environments.
• Understanding of project delivery methodologies and lifecycles, including Agile and Waterfall approaches.
• Experience aligning architecture decisions with cyber security, regulatory, and audit requirements.
• Team leadership, coaching, collaboration, and mentoring experience on multiple teams and projects.
• Strong organizational, planning, prioritization, and time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology leaders to define and maintain technology strategy, aligning technology capabilities and investments with business objectives.
• Apply Business Architecture practices to understand business capabilities, identify transformation opportunities, and guide technology strategy and investment decisions.
• Define and maintain enterprise architecture strategy, technology policies, and technology standards in partnership with Domain Architects and technology stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain enterprise frameworks, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and technology strategies to guide solution design and technology decisions.
• Lead research efforts on emerging technologies and recommend strategies for new technology adoption.
• Evaluate current and emerging technologies, applying industry best practices to support business roadmaps and technology planning.
• Monitor and evaluate vendor product roadmaps to identify impacts, risks, and opportunities that inform SRP’s technology vision and strategy.
• Support the creation of roadmaps, creation of emerging technology radars, and other artifacts to guide leadership in making technology investment decisions.
• Guide major technology decisions by evaluating options, trade-offs, risks, and business impacts.
• Support portfolio planning and investment decisions with architectural insight.
• Monitor the current-state technology portfolio to identify risks, deficiencies, technical debt, aging technologies, and misalignment with business requirements.
• Participate in governance and oversight bodies across SRP, including the Architecture Review Board and SRP Technology Governance.
• Ensure technology standards support privacy, resiliency, access control, and data protection.
• Translating complex security requirements into clear, actionable guidance for delivery teams.
• Provide architectural guidance and industry best practices to support the design and delivery of business-aligned technology solutions for complex business needs.
• Support Domain and Solution Architects in delivering standards-based designs and best practices.
• Promote architecture principles, standards, and technology best practices across technical delivery teams.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing, collaboration, and the exchange of lessons learned across the architecture community.

Benefits

• Pension Plan (at no cost to the employee)
• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Over 200+ hours of PTO (includes vacation days, holidays, floating holidays, and sick leave)
• Parental leave (up to 4 weeks) and adoption assistance
• Wellness programs (including access to a recreation and fitness facility)
• Short and long-term disability plans
• Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate programs
• 10 Employee Resource Groups for career development, community service, and networking

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal