Enterprise Architect

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The Royal Caribbean Group’s IT Architecture Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Enterprise Architect reporting to the Director, Enterprise Architect.

This role will work in-person in Miramar, Florida.

Position Summary:


We are seeking a highly experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the development and execution of our organization’s enterprise architecture strategy. This role will be pivotal in aligning business objectives with innovative technology solutions, ensuring scalable, efficient, and secure enterprise systems. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of business processes, technological trends, and architectural frameworks to drive digital transformation and operational excellence.  This role will focus on developing and maintaining technology strategies and standards for our state-of-the-art ships, dry docks, private destinations and terminals.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Sets and communicates the strategic technology vision and direction for enterprise IT systems.
• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture framework that aligns with organizational goals and industry best practices.
• Proactively work with shipboard product managers to identify architectural solution blueprints needed for solution build, manage the commitment and timeline.
• Define and document detail level architecture and general design for new and next in class ships.  Maintain the new build and dry dock infrastructure standards in Confluence.
• Drive the creation and validation of non-functional requirements concerning items such as consistency, performance, security, resiliency etc. These are especially critical in complex business scenarios.

• Develop long-term technology roadmaps that support business strategies, including cloud adoption, application modernization, and digital initiatives.
• Ensures architectural integrity and consistency across the enterprise, in terms of infrastructure, application and data.
• Liaison with other architects to understand the integration scenarios and provide solutions to the cross-program blueprint level dependency analysis.
• Lead the design and review of complex systems and solutions, ensuring alignment with architecture standards, security policies and performance metrics.
• Leads creating the review material for presentation to architecture review board (ARB) where required and get closure on the solution path to be undertaken for implementation.
• Ensure alignment of enterprise architecture standards during all phases of the respective project.
• Develop and maintain project pipelines, reviews and validations across all cross functional teams and departments.
• Collaborate with executive leadership, business units, and IT teams to understand needs and translate them into scalable enterprise technical solutions.
• Maintain a collective portfolio level documentation of solution blueprints that express the makeup of the program (as built over several sprints and increments) and the solutions continuous alignment to enterprise architecture standards.
• Identify opportunities for improvement in any area, whether it be people, process or technology (within or in the adjacent scopes) of the program in an ongoing manner.
• Identifies the need for changes to methodologies and procedures.  Works with management team to institutionalize these processes.

• Remains current with industry trends to advise and advocate architectural approaches for IT systems and solutions that meet business needs.
• Develop and document technology roadmap of shipboard infrastructure.  Provide best practices for maintaining technological maturity within the fleet and for new builds.
• Provide guidance on new concepts and strategic initiatives to ensure that enterprise standards are met and documented.
• Lead POC’s (Proof of Concept) to prove solution direction in coordination with product and engineering lead around resource capacity and priority.
• Contributes to the establishment and use of best practices in IT policies, standards, and procedures.
• Help forecast technological trends and potential risks in the implementation of defined IT policies, standards, and procedures.
• Performs other duties as required.  This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position.  Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or manager.

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills:

• 15+ years of experience with IT infrastructure architecture, data centers, middleware, database, and cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services in a large enterprise

• Demonstrates extensive broad knowledge and capabilities among a variety of technical concepts and functional areas.

• Demonstrates leadership, facilitation, coaching, mentoring and interpersonal/group communication.

• Effectively works with all levels of Information Technology and corporate organizations
• Considered subject matter expertise across multiple technology disciplines. 
• Able to lead and collaborate with people at all levels of responsibility to formulate, communicate and implement enterprise technical strategies
• Capable of making and selling independent decisions and recommendations
• Demonstrates ability to coordinate creativity, analysis and problem solving of many individuals which leads to consensus on solutions
• Considered a consultant on methodologies, tools, best practices and processes across multiple technology areas

We know there's a lot to consider. As you go through the application process, our recruiters will be glad to provide guidance, and more relevant details to answer any additional questions. Thank you again for your interest in Royal Caribbean Group. We'll hope to see you onboard soon!

It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Royal Caribbean Group and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.

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