Introduction
The role involves managing architecture assignments from initial research and analysis through recommendations, stakeholder alignment, documentation, and follow-through. It requires collaboration with application owners, engineers, architects, platform teams, program leads, and senior stakeholders across ERFT and Global Technology.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Seven or more years of experience in technical architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, senior engineering, or a comparable role within a large, complex organization.
- Broad understanding of enterprise application architecture, with demonstrated depth in several relevant technology areas.
- Experience researching unfamiliar technologies, evaluating alternatives, assessing strategic fit and risk, and developing evidence-based recommendations.
- Experience translating business and technology strategy into target-state architectures, roadmaps, standards, and implementation guidance.
- Ability to reconcile information from multiple sources and identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and accurate conclusions.
- Strong communication and presentation skills for technical and senior-management audiences.
- Ability to influence stakeholders, challenge assumptions constructively, and drive actions to closure without direct authority.
- Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, adapt to change, and take ownership of deliverables.
- Proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel for analysis and senior-management-ready materials.
- Prior work experience at client or in client's Industry.
Applicants must be able to work directly for Artech on W2.
Preferred Skills & Qualifications
- Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry, particularly within risk, finance, or enterprise technology.
- Experience with enterprise technology lifecycle management, portfolio rationalization, modernization, or large-scale platform adoption.
- Advanced expertise in one or more areas such as containers, cloud, hosting, distributed data platforms, databases, APIs, integration, or DevOps.
- Familiarity with open-source governance, technology risk and controls, architecture review boards, and exception-management processes.
- Experience using architecture repositories, reporting, collaboration, or workflow tools such as SharePoint, Confluence, Power BI, Power Apps, or Power Automate.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Developing target-state architecture, technology standards, roadmaps, and recommendations.
- Evaluating current and emerging technologies and comparing alternatives.
- Translating enterprise strategy into practical implementation and adoption guidance.
- Reviewing proposed architectures and identifying gaps, risks, or exceptions.
- Producing architecture views, decision materials, executive presentations, and progress reports.
- Coordinating across teams to resolve questions and drive decisions and actions to closure.
For immediate consideration please click APPLY to begin the screening process with Alex.