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Enterprise Architect Director

Leads and develops an Enterprise Architecture team that supports strategic customer engagements, revenue growth, and enterprise modernization. The role requires 20+ years of experience, executive communication skills, deep architecture and data expertise, and an MSc or equivalent technology degree.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Hire, mentor, and manage a team of Enterprise Architects supporting major client accounts.
  • Act as an executive sponsor during pre-sales and post-sales engagements, presenting strategic visions to C-level executives and collaborating with customer architecture and security teams.
  • Guide enterprise modernization, capability mapping, and adoption of emerging technologies such as Agentic AI.
  • Translate strategic goals into actionable technical plans and help resolve technical blockers.
  • Partner with Sales, Value Engineering, Product Management, Data Ops, Information Security, product, and engineering teams.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 20+ years of relevant experience, including management of Enterprise Architects or technical teams at a leading consulting firm or software vendor.
  • Strategic thinking and 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, and data-related languages such as SQL and Python.
  • Knowledge of cloud-native architectures, SaaS platforms including Salesforce, SAP, Dynamics CRM, and ServiceNow, cybersecurity fundamentals, API ecosystems, and legacy on-premises architectures.
  • MSc in Computer Science or an equivalent information-technology field.
  • Fluency in English; Spanish, French, German, or Italian is advantageous.

Nice-to-haves

  • Celonis certifications and leadership experience with OCPM and Case Centric Data Pipelines.
  • Certifications in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, ESB/ETL platforms 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.
  • Paid parental leave: 24 weeks for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers.
  • Flexible hybrid work model, unlimited PTO where applicable, and generous PTO globally.
  • Learning framework, mentorship programs, and dedicated learning platform.
  • Subsidized Wellhub memberships, mental health counseling, and Wellness Weeks.
  • Paid Impact Days for community and environmental volunteering.
  • Inclusion and belonging programs, including Inclusion Days.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture, Capability Mapping, Enterprise Modernization, Agentic AI, Data Architecture, SQL, Python, System Integration, Data Operations, Automation, Cloud-Native Architecture, Salesforce, SAP, Servicenow, Cybersecurity

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