An Enterprise Architect engages with our IT and business teams to drive solution design for the organizations transformation initiatives and ensure that architecture best practices as part of design. You must show a proven ability to manage complex requirements while understanding the appropriate risk profile of a project to determine the correct solution. Daily challenges will arise that require softer skill expertise than technical expertise – meaning, you cannot rely on technical aptitude alone to be successful. You must realize and show the ability to understand the business direction, objectives, and parties involved to get to the best outcome. A candidate who is a self-starter and looks to be proactive will be a great fit for this opportunity.

Key Tasks:

• Partner with our IT Leaders, Solution Delivery, Product teams, and Data teams to recommend technology solutions for business transformation, then lead the technical solutioning process to build the detailed blueprint for how technology will solve the problem
• Considers the enterprise picture as part of solution design to produce architectural blueprints consistent with IT technical vision and strategy
• Leverage expertise in multiple technical domains as part of solutioning process (Software Engineering, Application Review/Selection, Security, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, etc.)
• Lead architecture review board – development and alignment of architecture strategies across the KES organizations
• Lead current state to future state architecture alternatives to business leaders describing marginal value and connect to achieving business outcomes
• Experimentation – Identify and experiment with solutions to solve problems new to the organization
• Execute on initiatives as appropriate, not just a -Box Drawing- role