Senior IT Enterprise Architect

CenterPoint Energy • Houston, TX

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About The Position

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining the enterprise architecture vision, guiding principles, standards, target reference architecture models, and the enterprise technology roadmap. This role connects business and technology architecture by creating and maintaining technical capability maps. This role helps ensure that architecture decisions are consistent across the enterprise and that solutions leverage opportunities for common approaches. The Enterprise Architect is expected to analyze industry and market trends and utilize cross-functional knowledge to derive the long-term technology roadmap. The role will work across the organization to drive incubate, assess, and provide innovative new ideas. This role will guide Domain, Platform, and Solution Architects through the standards they set to ensure consistent design and delivery across the organization.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or Engineering from an accredited college or university
• Minimum of 12 years of experience in IT, with at least 7 years in an enterprise architecture role
• Must have extensive expertise in enterprise architecture best practices, guiding principles, governance and standards.
• Must be able to effectively communicate and collaborate across multiple functions (e.g., data, infrastructure, security, applications, etc.)
• Experience with Enterprise Architecture tools (e.g., LeanIX, iServer, etc.)
• Must be familiar with cloud platforms and aware of strengths and weaknesses of different cloud solution designs.
• Must be certified in TOGAF standards and approach with hands-on experience.
• Working knowledge of change management and release management processes and procedures.
• Ability to identify, analyze, and resolve problems in a timely manner; is detail-oriented
• Strong analytical and broad architectural skills.
• Comprehensive experience with various technology domains, including infrastructure, security, and application integration.
• Experience and understanding of the electric and gas utility operation, or other similar regulated industries, demonstrating an ability to navigate and excel in regulated environments is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Assess current IT systems and services, research new technologies, and create IT architecture blueprints to help the business and IT achieve their desired outcomes.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework that incorporates cloud solutions, applications, data, and security, with an emphasis on the insurance business processes.
• Lead architectural reviews to ensure adherence to best practices, governance standards, and enterprise policies.
• Maintain high-level reference models including the functional architecture, conceptual data architecture, application architecture and the infrastructure strategy.
• Establish and execute architecture management processes including the governance structure (e.g. Architecture Review Board) and processes.
• Understand and communicate strategic themes and other key business drivers for architecture to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Influence common modeling, design, and coding practices.
• Facilitate the reuse of ideas, components, and proven patterns.
• Create, maintain, and communicate reusable enterprise architecture assets.
• Identify areas for improvement in the current systems architecture such as areas of redundancy and develop comprehensive plans to incorporate suggestions into the technology roadmap.
• Serve as a bridge between Domain, Platform, and Solution Architects to ensure all parties are well versed in the defined enterprise architecture strategy, standards, policies, guidelines, and design principles.
• Establish and enforce architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure consistency and quality across all technology implementations.
• Define and manage the innovation process and support development of a minimum viable product to demonstrate value to key stakeholders.
• Ensure innovative ideas introduced to the enterprise align with established standards and guardrails for the technology landscape.
• Maintain and manage Enterprise Architecture tools and repositories.
• Develop and comprehensively document standards for Domain, Platform, and Solution Architects to refer to when consulting the business on proposed solutions, including all domains of data, cloud / infrastructure, applications / integrations, business architecture, and security.
• Oversee product requirement document (PRD), user experience, design, and code reviews to ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards.
• Drive and administer the Technology Innovation Review process.
• Consult on use of emerging technologies and enterprise architecture standards to the business as needed.
• Manage the application portfolio across the technology landscape and identify needs for application upgrades and training implementation.
• Drive the Architecture Community of Practice to bring thought leadership, industry trends, and best practices to the enterprise.
• Work effectively within teams and collaborate with key stakeholders to gather requirements relevant to the broader enterprise architecture landscape.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Paid training
• Benefits eligibility begins on your first day
• Transit subsidies
• Flexible work schedule
• paid holidays
• paid time off
• Access to discounts at fitness clubs
• on-site wellness center at our headquarters in Houston
• Professional growth and development programs
• tuition reimbursement
• 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match dollar-for-dollar up to 6% and a company contribution of 3% regardless of your contribution

What This Job Offers

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