Senior Technical Lead

Overview

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and govern enterprise IT architecture frameworks, standards, policies, and reference models
• Serve as the primary technical liaison between systems developers, IT project managers, and business stakeholders
• Develop and maintain current state and target state enterprise architecture models and roadmaps
• Identify architectural gaps and create transition plans to move from current to target architectures
• Advise on and support architectural planning for enterprise initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Establish and promote enterprise wide technology principles to guide solution design and investment decisions
• Identify opportunities to improve enterprise systems through modernization and emerging technologies
• Provide architecture guidance, coordination, and oversight to IT project teams
• Document enterprise infrastructure, business units, and key processes using industry standard modeling techniques
• Ensure technical integration across the enterprise through participation in test planning, validation, and design reviews
• Evaluate the impact of enterprise architecture decisions on IT investments, operations, and stakeholder outcomes
• Coordinate governance and portfolio management activities to ensure architectural compliance
• Promote and educate stakeholders on the value and use of enterprise architecture
• Ensure consistent application of information security and assurance principles across all architecture components

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in an IT related or Engineering field
  (Additional qualifying experience may substitute for education on a year for year basis)
• Minimum 7 years of experience aligning IT systems with organizational business processes
• At least 4 years of experience in a technical lead or leadership capacity
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, reference models, and infrastructure design
• Experience with program and project management concepts and practices
• Ability to develop enterprise architecture plans, including current/target architectures, sequencing plans, and standards
• Experience defining metrics and measurement techniques to evaluate architecture effectiveness
• Strong technical documentation skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare and present clear, effective reports

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise scale architecture governance and portfolio management
• Background working across multiple IT disciplines in complex environments
• Strong understanding of information security and assurance practices within enterprise architecture