Enterprise Architect (Business Architecture Specialization)

Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  
• TOGAF, OpenCA, or equivalent enterprise architecture certification is preferred but not required.
  

Required Professional Experience

Architectural and technical knowledge

• Broad understanding of enterprise technology landscapes, including applications, integration, data, cloud, and security
  
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, standards, and patterns at organizational scale
  
• Understanding of how technology enables business capabilities and value streams
  
• Ability to bridge architectural strategy with practical delivery execution through hands-on technical acumen
  
• Working knowledge of enterprise repositories and architecture artefacts (e.g., ADS views, roadmaps, transition architectures) sufficient to curate and assure quality and guide usage, not to perform administrative ownership
  

Experience

• Experience shaping and assuring architecture across multiple initiatives, portfolios, or domains
  
• Experience advising leaders on architectural trade-offs involving cost, risk, sustainability, and long-term outcomes
  
• Experience identifying cross-domain dependencies, risks, and opportunities for reuse
  
• Experience influencing stakeholders and contributing to governance and decision forums
  
• Experience operating within enterprise architecture standards and governance frameworks
  

Enterprise architecture & alignment

• Shape architecture across multiple initiatives, products, and domains to ensure enterprise coherence
  
• Ensure solution designs align with enterprise standards, target architectures, and transition roadmaps
  
• Identify cross-domain dependencies, systemic risks, and opportunities for reuse
  
• Contribute to the development and continuous evolution of enterprise standards and patterns (ownership at Principal Architect level)
  
• Maintain and curate enterprise architecture views, inventories, and roadmap inputs within the EA repository
  
• Identify and prioritize architectural risk and technical debt reduction opportunities across initiatives
  
• Lead development of segment and enterprise architecture views in collaboration with the EA practice
  
• Act as Solution Architect on exceptionally complex or strategic initiatives where required
  
• Mentor and guide Solution and Lead Architects to raise architectural maturity
  
• Contribute to refinement and application of ADS artefacts within EA governance cycles
  
• Bridge enterprise architectural direction with solution-level execution needs and mitigations
  
• Act as a trusted architectural advisor to business and technology leaders
  
• Operate as a generalist enterprise architect with depth across multiple BDAT domains
  

Advisory & assurance

• Provide architectural input during idea shaping, business case development, and planning
  
• Review solution architectures for enterprise alignment, risk, and long-term sustainability
  
• Make architectural trade-offs, risks, 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