Role Overview
The Enterprise Architect (Business Architecture Specialization) is responsible for shaping architecture across multiple initiatives, products, and domains to ensure enterprise coherence. This senior role involves identifying cross-domain dependencies, managing systemic risks, and ensuring that solution designs align with enterprise standards and transition roadmaps. You will act as a trusted architectural advisor to business and technology leaders, bridging high-level strategy with practical delivery execution.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture & Alignment
- Shape architecture across multiple initiatives to ensure enterprise coherence.
- Ensure solution designs align with enterprise standards and transition roadmaps.
- Identify cross-domain dependencies, systemic risks, and opportunities for reuse.
- Contribute to the continuous evolution of enterprise standards and patterns.
- Maintain and curate enterprise architecture views and inventories within the EA repository.
- Lead development of segment and enterprise architecture views.
- Mentor and guide Solution and Lead Architects to raise architectural maturity.
- Act as Solution Architect on exceptionally complex or strategic initiatives.
Advisory & Assurance
- Provide architectural input during idea shaping, business case development, and planning.
- Review solution architectures for enterprise alignment and long-term sustainability.
- Make architectural trade-offs and implications explicit to decision-makers.
- Support resolution of architectural issues that span domains or teams.
Technical Debt & Transition
- Identify and assess architectural risk and technical debt across initiatives.
- Develop and maintain transition architectures (Now → Next → Later).
- Support prioritization of architectural improvements aligned to organizational strategy.
Professional Behaviors & Capabilities
- Strategic Thinking: Balances business value, technical risk, cost, and long-term sustainability.
- Architectural Storytelling: Communicates intent and trade-offs clearly to senior and non-technical stakeholders.
- Stakeholder Leadership: Facilitates constructive architectural discussions and informed decisions.
- Influence & Collaboration: Works effectively across federated teams and influences through credibility.
- Professional Integrity: Takes accountability for architectural quality and consistency.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Broad understanding of technology landscapes (Applications, integration, data, cloud, and security).
- Strong knowledge of EA principles, standards, and patterns at organizational scale.
- Experience advising leaders on architectural trade-offs involving cost and risk.
- Experience identifying cross-domain dependencies and opportunities for reuse.
- TOGAF, OpenCA, or equivalent certification is preferred but not required.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply via the World Vision careers portal on the official Workday link provided in the application section.
