Senior Enterprise Architect - SOA

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The Senior Enterprise Architect designs, implements, maintains, and solves complex enterprise-wide solutions. This role evaluates current systems and applies technical proficiency, creativity, and collaboration to recommend enhancements to ensure flexibility, resilience, scalability, and high performance. The Senior Enterprise Architect is recognized as a master within the technical discipline and will possess extensive experience in building robust systems and strong collaboration, design, and negotiation skills to align technology solutions with business objectives. This position works closely with cross-functional, distributed teams to develop and sustain a cohesive enterprise architecture framework that supports organizational goals. This position offers the opportunity to shape our technological landscape and drive transformative change.

Primary Responsibilities

• Defines and enforces architecture standards, SOA principles, design patterns, and best practices.

• Frequently provides mentorship, guidance, and training to team members and other employees across the organization.

• Functions as subject matter expert within Enterprise Architecture.

• Defines and documents current, iterative, and future-state architectures by recommending, implementing, and aligning with industry best practices and the University’s strategic objectives.

• Collaborates within and outside of Enterprise Architecture with stakeholders to translate business requirements into flexible, scalable, and resilient architectural designs.

• Influences and informally leads cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between business needs and technology solutions.

• Communicates complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Provides strategic guidance on emerging technologies and trends.

• Develops and communicates technology strategy to diverse audiences.

• Leads continuous improvement initiatives to enhance enterprise architecture efficiency and effectiveness.

• Evaluates, recommends, and selects appropriate complex technologies, tools, and vendors to support objectives.

• Conducts architectural complex reviews, performance assessments, and capacity planning to optimize and mitigate risks.

• Ensures compliance with security and regulatory requirements in …