Sr. Lead, Enterprise Architecture Sr. Lead, Enterprise Architecture

Under Armour•Remote, OR

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Under Armour Enterprise Architecture team is responsible for ensuring alignment between architectural roadmaps, business strategies, and supporting enterprise transformation activities. The team is currently seeking a Sr Lead Enterprise Architect with a specialization in Security and Infrastructure. This role helps ensure the application portfolio aligns with business needs, enterprise standards and industry best practices. The architect produces detailed documentation for applications, projects, processes, governance, patterns, principles and integrations. This role also partners closely with technical leaders, solution architects and stakeholders to ensure alignment, integrate new technologies, rationalize redundant applications, produce architecture roadmaps, provide insight into industry trends and drive innovation. The ideal candidate has extensive experience as a lead engineer or solutions architect in the Cyber Security and Infrastructure spaces (operations, compute & storage, networking and cloud infrastructure) as well as experience operating within TOGAF or similar Enterprise Architecture framework.

Requirements

14 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor's degree+10 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree+8 years of relevant experience
Domain Expertise: Proven expertise architecting enterprise infrastructure solutions across production operations, compute and storage, networking, and cloud infrastructure. Deep understanding of reliability, scalability, observability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and secure operating patterns across on-prem, SaaS, and hybrid environments. Experience with cloud platforms, core infrastructure services, network architecture, automation, and governance practices that enable stable, highly available, and supportable enterprise systems.
Technical Proficiency: Skilled in performance engineering, observability, secure system design (zero-trust, privacy), relational databases, Git, command line, and modeling tools.
Strategic Influence: Effective at aligning cross-functional stakeholders, driving consensus in matrixed environments, and connecting architecture decisions to business outcomes and value realization.
Global Systems Leadership: Experience launching and supporting highly available, mission-critical systems worldwide; familiar with RFx processes and enterprise-grade resiliency patterns.
Communication & Storytelling: Exceptional ability to translate complex technical topics for non-technical audiences through clear writing and executive-level storytelling. Can assess and understand technology’s business impacts and optimize the user journey for a seamless experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience operating within TOGAF or similar Enterprise Architecture framework.

Responsibilities

Design scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions aligned with business goals
Develop technical architecture, data flows and diagrams for new initiatives, current state and target system architectures
Develop and socializes multi-horizon roadmaps and capability maps aligned to business strategy, value streams and funding cycles
Guide and educate on architecture strategy, integration standards, and industry trends across a varied composable commerce ecosystem
Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Mentor lead engineers and solution architects in modern architecture practices, composable design, and documentation quality
Translate business requirements into technical specifications
Build prototypes for new initiatives and evolving business needs
Assist in discovery and RFx processes
Support audit and compliance activities
Produce clear, auditable artifacts and lead architecture reviews
Contribute to cybersecurity, privacy and AI governance workflows – streamline intake, clarify decision criteria and reduce cycle time
Stay current with industry trends and hands on development