Senior Enterprise Architect (Hybrid)
About The Position
The Senior Enterprise Architect will provide the organization with a centralized, accurate view of how business capabilities, applications, technologies, data, vendors, and integrations work together across the enterprise. The role stewards the enterprise architecture repository and works with business and IT stakeholders to maintain information about architecture elements, ownership, and lifecycle. It facilitates alignment, identifies dependencies, risks, gaps, and opportunities, and supports governance, portfolio management, technology rationalization, and strategic planning through research, analysis, and recommendations. This position is on the Digital Strategy team and is hybrid, requiring three days per week in the AMA’s Chicago office. It is an exempt position. The stated salary range is $115,523.42–$150,972.44, and employees are also eligible to participate in an incentive plan.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in enterprise architecture, business architecture, IT architecture, application portfolio management, technology portfolio management, IT governance, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience managing enterprise architecture information, business capability models, architecture repositories, or comparable portfolio-management systems.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
- High school diploma or equivalent education is required, or equivalent work experience.
- A bachelor’s degree is preferred, or equivalent work experience.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
Responsibilities
- Maintain the enterprise architecture repository, including information about applications, business capabilities, technologies, vendors, interfaces, business units, and other applicable architecture elements.
- Create, update, and maintain relationships among business capabilities, applications, technologies, vendors, owners, and integrations; analyze application dependencies and data-sharing needs to inform architecture recommendations.
- Apply established data standards, naming conventions, classifications, lifecycle definitions, and required attributes to keep architecture information consistent.
- Monitor repository information for incomplete, outdated, duplicate, inconsistent, or inaccurate entries and coordinate corrections with responsible stakeholders.
- Conduct recurring reviews and certification activities with business and IT owners to keep architecture information current.
- Maintain architecture views, dashboards, reports, and other repository content used to communicate the enterprise’s current state.
- Develop, maintain, and refine business capability maps and hierarchies in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders.
- Facilitate identification, definition, decomposition, and alignment of business capabilities across business functions, ensuring appropriate scope, granularity, and consistency.
- Map business capabilities to applications, organizational units, processes, information, and other architecture elements to establish traceability between business needs and technology.
- Identify capability overlaps, gaps, redundancies, and inconsistencies; analyze them and develop recommendations for stakeholder review.
- Establish and execute routine processes for collecting, validating, and maintaining enterprise architecture information from business and IT stakeholders.
- Monitor data-quality metrics, reconcile information with authoritative enterprise sources, and coordinate resolution of data-quality issues.
- Analyze application portfolio information, including licensing and utilization considerations, identify trade-offs, and develop recommendations.
- Maintain and evolve architectural principles, patterns, and reference models as advisory guidance.
- Review solution designs for alignment with enterprise standards and highlight areas requiring exception handling.
- Document and track architectural exceptions to ensure visibility into long-term impacts.
- Provide consultative support to teams adopting platforms, integration patterns, or data models, including researching and analyzing integration options and recommending solutions.
- Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to ensure coherence across domains.
- Inform roadmap development by independently assessing and researching technical debt, modernization opportunities, and lifecycle considerations, and developing recommendations.
- Perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Benefits
- Employees are eligible to participate in an incentive plan.
- The AMA supports professional development for employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
High school or GED
