Job Description
Job Description
Position Summary
Complete Staffing has a great client hiring an Enterprise Architect. The Enterprise Architect will align technology investments, applications, platforms, data, integrations, and cloud services with overall business strategy. This individual will serve as a trusted advisor to business and IT leadership, developing the long-term technology roadmap and guiding initiatives to modernize systems, reduce technical debt, manage costs, and minimize risk This role is a direct placement with our client.
Key Responsibilities
Technology Strategy & Roadmaps
- Develop and maintain a three-to-five-year enterprise technology roadmap aligned with business objectives.
- Translate business priorities into technology strategies, modernization plans, and investment recommendations.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, business value, and risk management.
- Advise leadership on technology investments and future-state capabilities.
Application Portfolio & Technical Debt
- Establish and maintain an enterprise application portfolio, including ownership, cost, lifecycle, dependencies, and risk.
- Lead application assessments to identify opportunities for modernization, consolidation, replacement, or retirement.
- Develop application health and technical debt reporting to support investment decisions.
- Identify unsupported technologies and operational risks.
Architecture & Technology Governance
- Establish architecture standards, principles, and technology decision-making frameworks.
- Review major technology investments, integrations, cloud services, and modernization initiatives.
- Partner with IT, Security, Infrastructure, Development, Data, business leaders, and vendors to align technology strategy with execution.
Cloud, Data & Innovation
- Define strategic direction for Azure, application hosting, enterprise data, APIs, integrations, and platform selection.
- Support cloud governance focused on cost, security, scalability, and reliability.
- Evaluate opportunities involving AI, automation, analytics, and emerging technologies while balancing business value, risk, and long-term sustainability.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of progressive IT experience, including 5+ years in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Technology Strategy, or IT Leadership.
- Experience developing technology roadmaps, managing application portfolios, leading modernization initiatives, and addressing technical debt.
- Strong understanding of enterprise applications, Azure or comparable cloud platforms, data architecture, integrations, and security principles.
- Ability to influence decisions and communicate effectively with executive leadership, business stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors.
- Insurance, financial services, employee benefits, or other regulated-industry experience preferred.
- Familiarity with TOGAF or similar architecture frameworks preferred.
Measures of Success
- Establishing a comprehensive application portfolio with clear ownership, lifecycle, cost, and risk visibility.
- Delivering an enterprise technology roadmap aligned with business priorities.
- Improving application health reporting and modernization planning.
- Reducing redundant systems, technical debt, unsupported technologies, and operational risk.
- Supporting more consistent and cost-effective technology investment decisions.