Executive Director, Enterprise Architecture

In this role, you will define and evolve the enterprise architecture strategy and multi-year roadmap, ensuring alignment with business priorities and investment plans. You will establish architectural principles, standards, and governance frameworks that guide technology decisions across the organization.

• Lead enterprise architecture strategy, reference architectures, and long-term technology roadmaps across cloud, data, integration, security, and applications.
• Translate business strategy into scalable and future-ready technology architectures.
• Define and maintain architecture standards, guardrails, patterns, and governance models.
• Lead Architecture Review Board (ARB) activities, ensuring design compliance and architectural integrity.
• Oversee enterprise-wide integration, interoperability, and platform coherence across systems and domains.
• Drive modernization initiatives, reduce technical debt, and improve architectural consistency and resilience.
• Partner with cybersecurity, infrastructure, and data teams to ensure secure-by-design and compliant architectures.
• Advise senior leadership on technology investments, risks, and transformation initiatives.
• Lead and mentor the enterprise architecture organization, fostering excellence and collaboration.

Requirements

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in enterprise architecture leadership within large, complex, and global environments, with a strong ability to translate strategy into scalable technical solutions. You should combine deep architectural expertise with strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

• 12+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture or related senior architecture/technology leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading enterprise architecture teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and governance models.
• Expertise across cloud, infrastructure, data, integration, cybersecurity, and application architecture domains.
• Experience defining and enforcing architecture standards, principles, and design guardrails.
• Strong understanding of modern architecture patterns (APIs, microservices, cloud-native, event-driven systems).
• Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale transformation and modernization programs.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and executive stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in regulated or highly governed industries (e.g., healthcare, life sciences) is a plus.
• Ability to lead distributed teams and operate effectively in global delivery environments.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation aligned with senior executive responsibilities
• Hybrid/remote flexibility depending on project and organizational needs
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Retirement and long-term financial savings plans (where applicable)
• Generous paid time off and global holidays
• Opportunities to lead large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives
• Professional development, leadership growth, and certification support
• Inclusive and collaborative global work environment.