Enterprise Architect Director
Leads and develops an Enterprise Architecture team supporting major customer accounts, executive engagements, and sales outcomes. The role requires 20+ years of technical leadership, deep enterprise architecture and data expertise, C-level communication skills, and an MSc or equivalent IT degree.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Hire, mentor, and manage a team of Enterprise Architects defining architecture, data, and cloud strategies for large client accounts.
- Act as an executive sponsor during pre-sales and post-sales engagements, presenting strategic visions to C-level executives and engaging customer architecture and security teams.
- Guide enterprise modernization, capability mapping, and innovative solutions using emerging technologies such as Agentic AI.
- Align product and engineering teams with client teams to deliver technical services.
- Assess customer IT landscape maturity and coach account teams and ecosystem partners on architecture, integration, performance, and scalability.
- Direct reusable project assets, customer-facing position papers, and thought-leadership presentations on architecture and innovation.
Requirements
- 20+ years of relevant experience managing Enterprise Architects or technical teams at a top consulting firm or software vendor.
- Strategic thinking and the ability to connect technical solutions to business value and customer objectives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, complex negotiation, and C-level presentation skills.
- Deep expertise in capability mapping, enterprise modernization, and Agentic AI.
- Strong background in data architecture, system integrations, data operations, automation, SQL, and Python.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, SaaS solutions such as Salesforce, SAP, Dynamics CRM, and ServiceNow, cybersecurity fundamentals, API ecosystems, and legacy on-premises enterprise architectures.
- MSc in Computer Science or an equivalent information technology-related field.
- Fluency in English; Spanish, French, German, or Italian is advantageous.
Preferred Qualifications
- Celonis certifications and leadership experience with OCPM and Case Centric Data Pipelines.
- Certifications in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, ESB/ETL tools such as Mulesoft, Oracle, SAP, Talend, or Informatica, or TOGAF/Zachman.
- Experience across at least two business domains and two industries.
Compensation and Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units and merit-based refresh grants for full-time employees.
- 24 weeks of fully paid parental leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers.
- Unlimited PTO in applicable regions and generous PTO globally.
- Flexible hybrid work model.
- Learning framework, mentorship programs, and dedicated learning platform.
- Subsidized Wellhub memberships, mental health counseling, and Wellness Weeks.
- Paid annual Impact Days for volunteering.
- Inclusion and belonging programs.
Skills
Enterprise Architecture, Capability Mapping, Enterprise Modernization, Agentic AI, Data Architecture, System Integration, Data Operations, Automation, SQL, Python, Cloud-Native Architecture, Salesforce, SAP, Servicenow, Api Ecosystems
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