Executive Director, Enterprise Architect Lead

JOB SUMMARY

Reporting to the Head of Platforms and Infrastructure, the Executive Director, Enterprise Architecture is responsible for defining and advancing enterprise architecture strategy across Application, Data, Network, Infrastructure, and Security. This role ensures technology capabilities align with and support the organization’s business goals, operating priorities, risk posture, and long-term transformation agenda.

This role provides strategic leadership for target-state architecture, technology standards, governance, and enterprise architecture decision-making across the organization. The Executive Director partners with executive leadership, business stakeholders, and technology teams to guide major technology investments, modernization priorities, and enterprise platform decisions while ensuring alignment with organizational standards and regulatory expectations.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Architecture Strategy: Lead the development and evolution of enterprise target architectures, standards, platforms, and tools across the organization, ensuring alignment with business strategy and established technology standards.

Governance: Own the establishment, management, and continuous evolution of the enterprise architecture governance framework, ensuring designs align with corporate architecture standards, principles, risk requirements, and long-term strategic direction.

Architectural Review Board: Chair the Architectural Review Board (ARB), which sets technology standards and approves significant products, platforms, and systems architecture decisions. Partner with relevant governing bodies and stakeholders to ensure effective alignment, advocacy, and enterprise coordination.

Advisory Role: Act as the senior architecture advisor to executive leadership and technical teams, helping evaluate architectural options to best meet business needs using existing, emerging, and strategically aligned technologies.

Documentation and Standards: Create, review, and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts, reference architectures, standards, and design documentation to support consistency, scalability, and compliance.

Research and Innovation: Lead research and assessment of evolving technologies, industry trends, and architectural practices to identify opportunities that improve business value, resilience, and operational efficiency.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with senior leaders across business and technology functions to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective and sustainable technology solutions across the organization.

Continuous Improvement: Identify, sponsor, manage, and monitor continuous improvement initiatives and best practices across the IT organization to improve delivery quality, simplify the technology landscape, and strengthen governance.

Budget / Investment Planning: Contribute to investment planning, budget prioritization, and strategic technology roadmaps by linking architecture decisions to business outcomes, risk management, and cost efficiency.

Leadership / Talent: Lead, coach, and develop team members, support organizational change, and strengthen enterprise architecture capabilities through effective talent, performance, and succession management.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education: University degree in a technology-related discipline.

Experience: 12+ years of progressive information technology experience, with demonstrated expertise across multiple systems environments and architecture domains.

Enterprise Architecture Leadership: Significant experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, or senior architecture leadership roles within complex organizations.

Business / Strategy Knowledge: Comprehensive understanding of IT operational and strategic goals, with the ability to translate business objectives into enterprise architecture direction.

Project / Change Leadership: Strong project and change leadership skills, with the ability to influence priorities and outcomes across multiple stakeholders.

Learning / Innovation: Demonstrated aptitude for continuous learning, strategic thinking, and innovation.

Delivery Discipline: Proven understanding of SDLC and technology delivery disciplines.

Problem Solving: Excellent analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound, logical, and strategic decisions.

Communication: Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical teams and executive audiences and maintain a strong service-oriented approach.