Principal Enterprise Architect
About The Position
The Enterprise Architecture organization is seeking four Principal Enterprise Architects to provide accountable architecture leadership across Mayo Clinic's most critical technology domains. Each Principal Enterprise Architect serves as the named architecture authority for an assigned area and defines target-state architecture, multi-year roadmaps, architecture standards, decision frameworks, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and strategic technology direction. The role partners with business and technology leaders to guide major technology decisions and align them with enterprise priorities. The position integrates architecture across capabilities, technologies, and workstreams while maintaining alignment with enterprise architecture direction. Through architecture engagements, governance, technology planning, and modernization efforts, it provides oversight for significant initiatives, identifies technology opportunities and dependencies, and translates business and technology objectives into architecture direction and actionable roadmaps. The role leads through influence, builds trusted enterprise partnerships, and helps develop architecture talent. The Principal Enterprise Architect is the accountable architecture authority for a major integrated business portfolio, enterprise technology platform, strategic transformation, or enterprise architecture discipline. The role owns target-state direction, multi-year roadmaps, integrated architecture models, decision frameworks, senior stakeholder relationships, architecture quality, and measurable outcomes for its assigned scope. It holds delegated final architecture authority within its charter, integrates multiple subdomains and workstreams, guides major investment and technology decisions, and provides functional leadership without required direct-report responsibility. The position serves as principal architecture advisor to senior business and technology leaders. It works laterally with other Principal architects, Distinguished specialty authorities, architecture and technology executives, people managers, portfolio and platform leaders, solution and domain architects, engineering, operations, information security, privacy, risk, data, procurement, finance, vendors, and delivery teams. Coverage areas (one position each): Data Platform Architecture; Artificial Intelligence Architecture; Infrastructure Architecture; and Software, Integration & Operations Architecture. Applicants must submit a cover letter ranking their area preferences. This is a hybrid position located within 100 miles of a Mayo Clinic campus, with occasional on-site expectations based on business needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or another relevant field.
- 12 years of demonstrated technical experience.
- TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner or TOGAF 9 Certified certification is required within 12 months of employment.
- Authorization to work and remain in the United States without Mayo Clinic sponsorship now or in the future.
- Must be located within 100 miles of a Mayo Clinic campus for occasional on-site expectations.
- Submit a cover letter identifying ranked area preferences.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or another relevant field.
- Experience practicing as an enterprise architect, domain or platform architect, business architect, or in an equivalent role.
- TOGAF EA Leader credential.
- Experience developing target-state architectures and multi-year technology roadmaps.
- Experience serving as an architecture leader for a major business, platform, or technology area.
- Experience establishing architecture standards, principles, guardrails, and reusable patterns.
- Experience leading architecture reviews and significant technology decisions.
- Experience partnering with senior business and technology leaders.
- Experience identifying modernization opportunities and technology investment priorities.
- Experience applying enterprise architecture frameworks and governance practices.
- Experience mentoring architects and providing architecture leadership through influence.
- Experience communicating architecture strategy and technology direction to diverse stakeholder groups.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the accountable architecture authority for an assigned major portfolio, platform, strategic transformation, or enterprise architecture discipline.
- Define target-state architecture, multi-year roadmaps, integrated architecture models, standards, decision frameworks, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and strategic technology direction.
- Guide major technology, investment, and architecture decisions and provide delegated final architecture authority within the assigned charter.
- Integrate architecture across multiple capabilities, technologies, subdomains, and workstreams while aligning with enterprise architecture direction.
- Provide architecture oversight for significant initiatives through architecture engagements, governance, technology planning, and modernization efforts.
- Identify technology opportunities, dependencies, modernization opportunities, and investment priorities.
- Translate business and technology objectives into architecture direction and actionable roadmaps.
- Advise senior business and technology leaders and build trusted partnerships across the enterprise.
- Lead through influence, provide functional architecture leadership, and help develop the next generation of architecture talent.
- Communicate architecture strategy and technology direction to diverse stakeholder groups.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans.
- Medical plan options.
- Dental coverage through Delta Dental or a reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
- Vision plan with a national network.
- HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.
- Competitive retirement package.
- Continuing education and advancement opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
