IT Enterprise Architect

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The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and governing the enterprise technology strategy, architecture standards, and transformation roadmap across our environment.

This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical depth, requiring active engagement in architecture design, solution validation, and engineering execution. The ideal candidate has 15+ years of experience, including 2–3+ years operating specifically in an Enterprise Architect capacity, driving cloud-native transformation, modernization, and multi-cloud governance.

The Enterprise Architect ensures alignment between business strategy, regulatory requirements, and technology platforms—while enabling scalable, secure, and cost-optimized solutions across Azure, AWS, and enterprise SaaS ecosystems.

Key Accountabilities/Deliverables:

• Enterprise Strategy & Architecture Governance

  • Define and evolve enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, and reference architectures, patterns & practices for Cloud, Data, Security, Integration.

  • Lead Community of Practice (CoP) and Architecture Review Board (ARB) and to enforce governance and guardrails across all major initiatives

  • Develop multi-year cloud transformation and modernization roadmaps aligned to business strategy

• Hands-On Architecture & Solution Design

  • Actively design and review solution architectures across cloud-native platforms

  • Validate infrastructure and application designs using IaC (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, GitOps and automation frameworks

  • Provide hands-on guidance to engineering & platform teams on performance, scalability, and resiliency patterns

• Cloud & Platform Engineering Enablement

  • Drive adoption of Azure/AWS cloud-native services, platform engineering models, and reusable capabilities

  • Establish standard patterns for API-driven integration, event-driven architectures, and domain-aligned services

  • Enable engineering teams with reference implementations, templates, and accelerators

• Security, Compliance & Risk Management

  • Ensure architecture aligns with regulatory requirements

  • Embed Zero Trust, identity-first security, and data protection strategies into all architectures

  • Partner with Security and Risk teams to mitigate systemic risks across platforms

• Cost Optimization & FinOps

  • Define cloud cost optimization strategies (rightsizing, reserved capacity, tagging governance)

  • Establish visibility through cost dashboards and FinOps practices

  • Balance architectural decisions between performance, cost, and resilience

• Data & AI Readiness

  • Standardize data integration patterns across core systems of record

  • Provide guidance to data architecture ensuring alignment with governance platforms (e.g., data catalog, MDM, lineage)

  • Collaborate on data strategies supporting analytics and machine learning initiatives

• Vendor & Technology Evaluation

  • Lead strategic vendor evaluations (e.g., Azure vs AWS services, SaaS platforms)

  • Influence contract decisions, architectural fit, and long-term platform sustainability

  • Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and avoid vendor lock-in risks

Technical Knowledge and Understanding:

• Cloud & Modern Architecture

  • Deep expertise in Azure and/or AWS architectures (multi-region, high availability, DR/BCP design)

  • Strong hands-on experience with: Containers (Azure Container Apps, AKS/EKS), Serverless (Azure Functions, AWS Lambda) and API Management and Application gateways.

• Engineering & Automation

  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, or similar)

  • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, or similar)

  • Observability and SRE practices (Datadog, App Insights, or similar)

  • Platform engineering and developer experience optimization

• Security & Governance

  • Identity & Access Management (Entra ID / AWS IAM)

  • Zero Trust architecture

  • Logging, monitoring, and compliance frameworks

• Data & Integration

  • Enterprise data platforms (Fabric, data lakes, warehousing)

  • Data governance (Purview or equivalent)

  • API-first and event-driven integration patterns

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At Core Specialty, you will receive a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development and advancement.  We offer medical, dental, vision, and life insurances; short and long-term disability; a Company-match of 100% of a 6% contribution 401(k) plan; an Employee Assistance Plan; Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, Health Reimbursement Account, and a wellness program