Job Description
Principal Enterprise Architect
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📍 Location: Milwaukee, WI, US
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🏢 Industry: Financial Services
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💼 Work Setting: Hybrid
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Are you a strategic technology leader who excels at connecting business strategy to enterprise technology roadmaps?
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This role offers the opportunity to influence enterprise-wide decisions, shape future-state architectures, and partner with senior business and technology leaders to drive digital transformation and operational excellence.
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Position Overview
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As an Enterprise Architect, you will serve as a trusted advisor to business and technology leadership, guiding strategic initiatives through architecture best practices, business capability modeling, and technology modernization.
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You will bridge business and technology domains by translating strategic objectives into scalable architecture roadmaps, business capabilities, value streams, and enterprise solutions.
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Key Responsibilities
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Enterprise Architecture Strategy
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- Define and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, frameworks, and target-state architectures.
- Develop and manage enterprise technology roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
- Provide architectural governance and oversight for major transformation initiatives.
- Ensure consistency across platforms, applications, integrations, data, and infrastructure.
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Technology Architecture & Innovation
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- Partner with technology, security, platform, and data teams to align solution designs with enterprise standards.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and architectural patterns, including:
- Cloud Platforms
- API-Driven Architectures
- Data Platforms
- AI Enablement Technologies
- Modern Integration Frameworks
- Assess business value, risks, and scalability considerations.
- Drive technology modernization and future-state architecture planning.
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Application & Platform Rationalization
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- Reduce technical complexity across the enterprise.
- Identify opportunities to consolidate applications, platforms, and integrations.
- Improve operational efficiency through architecture simplification.
- Support technology lifecycle and modernization initiatives.
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Risk, Security & Compliance
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- Collaborate with Risk, Security, and Compliance teams to ensure architectural designs meet:
- Regulatory Requirements
- Security Standards
- Resiliency Objectives
- Financial Services Governance Requirements
- Promote secure and compliant architecture practices.
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Business Architecture
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Capability & Value Stream Modeling
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- Translate enterprise strategy into business capabilities and operating models.
- Develop and maintain business capability maps.
- Define value streams and business process relationships.
- Connect business capabilities to technology investments and transformation initiatives.
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Strategic Planning & Portfolio Alignment
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- Align business objectives, capabilities, initiatives, and technology investments.
- Support enterprise portfolio planning and prioritization activities.
- Evaluate strategic trade-offs and investment decisions.
- Ensure technology roadmaps directly support business outcomes.
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Business Transformation
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- Identify capability gaps and organizational improvement opportunities.
- Assess redundancies and operational inefficiencies.
- Recommend opportunities for simplification, modernization, and acceleration.
- Support large-scale transformation and change initiatives.
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Strategic Partnership & Leadership
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Executive Advisory
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- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology executives.
- Guide strategic discussions on architecture, transformation, and business capabilities.
- Support decision-making through architectural insights and recommendations.
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Stakeholder Management
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- Collaborate with:
- Executive Leadership
- Business Leaders
- Product Owners
- Technology Teams
- Transformation Offices
- Build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Influence decisions without direct authority.
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Communication & Facilitation
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- Communicate complex business and technical concepts clearly.
- Facilitate architecture workshops and strategic planning sessions.
- Present recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
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Mentorship & Practice Development
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- Mentor architects and technology leaders.
- Contribute to enterprise architecture governance and maturity initiatives.
- Promote architecture best practices and standards across the organization.
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Required Qualifications
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Education
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- Bachelor's Degree in:
- Computer Science
- Information Systems
- Business
- Related Field
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Experience
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- 10+ years of experience in:
- Enterprise Architecture
- Solution Architecture
- Technology Strategy
- IT Leadership
- Experience working within large, complex enterprise organizations.
- Proven experience applying business architecture concepts including:
- Business Capabilities
- Value Streams
- Information Concepts
- Operating Models
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Technical Expertise
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- Cloud Architecture
- Enterprise Integration
- Data Architecture
- Security Architecture
- Application Architecture
- Technology Roadmapping
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Industry Knowledge
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- Financial Services (Preferred)
- Insurance (Preferred)
- Wealth Management (Preferred)
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Preferred Qualifications
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Architecture Frameworks
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- TOGAF
- SAFe
- Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
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Business Architecture
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- BIZBOK
- IIBA Frameworks
- Business Capability Modeling
- Value Stream Mapping
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Additional Experience
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- Large-Scale Digital Transformation Programs
- Enterprise Modernization Initiatives
- Strategic Portfolio Management
- Executive Stakeholder Engagement
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Key Skills
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- Enterprise Architecture
- Business Architecture
- Technology Strategy
- Capability Mapping
- Value Stream Analysis
- Digital Transformation
- Cloud Architecture
- Data Architecture
- Enterprise Governance
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Planning
- Executive Communication
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