Job Description
Job Description
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – three days onsite per week
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $165,000–$185,000 annually
We are seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect to define and govern enterprise-wide architecture across applications, platforms, data, integrations, cloud technologies, and emerging solutions. This highly collaborative, hands-on technical leadership role will dedicate approximately 40%–60% of its focus to AI initiatives, including agentic automation.
The Enterprise Architect will establish the direction, standards, patterns, and guardrails needed to deliver scalable, secure, stable, and well-governed technology solutions across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
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Define and maintain enterprise architecture across application, data, integration, cloud, and platform domains.
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Establish enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and reusable design patterns.
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Ensure consistent adoption of enterprise patterns across technology initiatives.
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Integrate AI, agentic automation, analytics, and related capabilities into the broader enterprise architecture.
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Align technology architecture with business strategy and the organization’s long-term roadmap.
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Provide architectural leadership for major enterprise-wide initiatives.
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Guide solution architects and engineering teams through complex architecture and technology decisions.
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Define shared platform capabilities that improve scalability, consistency, and reuse.
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Serve as the design authority for complex, cross-domain solutions.
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Establish governance models for platforms, integrations, data, and AI-enabled solutions.
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Balance innovation with security, operational maturity, stability, and long-term maintainability.
Required Profile
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Senior-level enterprise architecture experience across multiple technology domains.
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Strong hands-on technical expertise and the ability to lead architecture decisions.
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Demonstrated experience establishing architecture standards, governance models, and reference architectures.
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Experience incorporating AI, automation, or analytics into enterprise technology environments.
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Strong collaboration and communication skills.
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Ability to work onsite in Charlotte three days per week.