Our client is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to support a customer engagement in Houston, Texas. This position serves as the critical link between business strategy and technology execution, requiring deep expertise across business architecture disciplines and enterprise architecture practices. The ideal candidate will be equally comfortable facilitating executive stakeholder discussions and designing enterprise architecture frameworks that drive business outcomes.
Responsibilities:
Define and maintain enterprise architecture strategy, including architecture models, integration frameworks, governance standards, and lifecycle management aligned to business goals
Lead business architecture efforts by translating business capabilities, value streams, and strategic drivers into actionable technology roadmaps
Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical models across business, data, application, and technology domains
Manage and maintain enterprise architecture tools and repositories to support architecture discovery, governance, and stakeholder visibility
Establish and enforce architecture governance processes, including standards, policies, and review frameworks to ensure consistency across the enterprise
Lead architectural reviews and serve as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and best practices
Identify opportunities to reduce redundancy, improve integration, and increase efficiency across the technology and business landscape
Facilitate the Architecture Community of Practice to promote thought leadership, share industry trends, and drive collaboration across teams
Assess emerging technologies and lead proof of concept initiatives to evaluate their strategic impact
Communicate architectural strategy and business drivers clearly to both technical and non technical audiences
Manage the architecture portfolio and identify needs for platform upgrades, training, or new technology investments
Support the customer's Emergency Operation Plan by ensuring architecture continuity during critical operations
Required Qualifications
Experience participating in or conducting ARB activities.
Familiarity with EA tools such as Ardoq is preferred.
Strong enterprise architecture skills consistent with those we have discussed previously.
Preferred Qualifications
TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture certification
Experience in the energy or utility sector
Familiarity with cloud architecture patterns in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
Experience with data governance, integration frameworks, or data architecture
Numbers & Facts
Location
Houston, TX
Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
Architectural Servicesunmatched
Best Practicesunmatched
Business Architectureunmatched
Business Modelunmatched
Business Strategyunmatched
Cloud Architectureunmatched
Cloud Computingunmatched
Community of Practice (CoP)unmatched
Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
Emergency Planningunmatched
Emerging Technologyunmatched
Energy & Utilitiesunmatched
Enterprise Architectureunmatched
Industry/Trade Analysisunmatched
Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
Needs Assessmentunmatched
Operations Planningunmatched
Proof of Conceptunmatched
Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
TOGAF - The Open Group Architecture Frameworkunmatched
Technical Strategyunmatched
Technology Analysisunmatched
Thought Leadershipunmatched
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