Enterprise Architect

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – three days onsite per week
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $165,000–$185,000 annually

We are seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect to define and govern enterprise-wide architecture across applications, platforms, data, integrations, cloud technologies, and emerging solutions. This highly collaborative, hands-on technical leadership role will dedicate approximately 40%–60% of its focus to AI initiatives, including agentic automation.

The Enterprise Architect will establish the direction, standards, patterns, and guardrails needed to deliver scalable, secure, stable, and well-governed technology solutions across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture across application, data, integration, cloud, and platform domains.

• Establish enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and reusable design patterns.

• Ensure consistent adoption of enterprise patterns across technology initiatives.

• Integrate AI, agentic automation, analytics, and related capabilities into the broader enterprise architecture.

• Align technology architecture with business strategy and the organization’s long-term roadmap.

• Provide architectural leadership for major enterprise-wide initiatives.

• Guide solution architects and engineering teams through complex architecture and technology decisions.

• Define shared platform capabilities that improve scalability, consistency, and reuse.

• Serve as the design authority for complex, cross-domain solutions.

• Establish governance models for platforms, integrations, data, and AI-enabled solutions.

• Balance innovation with security, operational maturity, stability, and long-term maintainability.

Required Profile

• Senior-level enterprise architecture experience across multiple technology domains.

• Strong hands-on technical expertise and the ability to lead architecture decisions.

• Demonstrated experience establishing architecture standards, governance models, and reference architectures.

• Experience incorporating AI, automation, or analytics into enterprise technology environments.

• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

• Ability to work onsite in Charlotte three days per week.