Enterprise Architect

About Us

Since 1989, SHI International Corp. has helped organizations change the world through technology. We’ve grown every year since, and today we’re proud to be a $16 billion global provider of IT solutions and services.

Over 17,000 organizations worldwide rely on SHI’s concierge approach to help them solve what’s next. But the heartbeat of SHI is our employees – all 7,000 of them. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy:

- Our commitment to diversity, as the largest minority- and woman-owned enterprise in the U.S.
- Continuous professional growth and leadership opportunities.
- Health, wellness, and financial benefits to offer peace of mind to you and your family.
- World-class facilities and the technology you need to thrive – in our offices or yours.

Job Summary

The Enterprise Architect is a hands-on technology leader who actively shapes the organization’s technology landscape through portfolio analysis, lifecycle planning, architecture governance, technology roadmaps, standards, and strategic decision-making.

This role works directly with business and technology teams to understand the application and technology portfolio, perform rationalization, identify modernization opportunities, guide lifecycle and investment decisions, and align technology principles and standards with business strategy.

While the role operates across the broader technology landscape, particular emphasis is placed on application and software architecture, application modernization, and emerging AI capabilities. The Enterprise Architect is expected to bring deep expertise in one or more of these areas while collaborating with Domain, Platform, Solution, and Technical Architects across infrastructure, cloud, data, integration, and cybersecurity to drive enterprise-level decisions and actionable outcomes.

This position is required to report to the Austin, TX or Somerset NJ office location on a hybrid basis.

Role Description

- Contribute to current-state, target-state, and transition architectures, working across business and technology teams to establish actionable enterprise direction.

- Participate in the development of enterprise and technology roadmaps, identifying modernization priorities, dependencies, sequencing, and investment needs.

- Perform and lead application and technology rationalization activities, evaluating business capability alignment, technical health, cost, risk, duplication, and strategic fit.

- Lead and participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) and architecture reviews, facilitating decisions, documenting outcomes, managing exceptions, and driving issues to resolution.

- Develop and contribute to architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails for practical use by architecture and delivery teams.

- Partner with Domain and Platform Architects to connect domain and platform strategies, standards, roadmaps, and lifecycle decisions to broader enterprise priorities and identify cross-domain dependencies, gaps, and opportunities.

- Participate in strategic technology and vendor evaluations, including build, buy, reuse, modernize, consolidate, and retire decisions.

- Partner with business and technology teams to translate strategic priorities into actionable architecture deliverables and technology initiatives.

- Collaborate with Solution Architects, Technical Architects, engineering, infrastructure, security, data, and AI teams to resolve cross-domain architecture challenges and move decisions into execution.

- Create and maintain actionable architecture artifacts and portfolio information, including assessments, roadmaps, standards, technology lifecycle positions, and architecture decisions.

- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends and translate relevant findings into practical architecture guidance and actions.

Behaviors and Competencies

- Adaptability: Can lead others through change, help teams adapt to new directions, and create a culture open to change.
- Analytical Thinking: Can use advanced analytical techniques to solve complex problems, draw insights, and communicate the solutions effectively.
- Change Management: Can manage major changes in organizational processes or policies, can facilitate change management processes among others, can mentor others in effective change management, and can adapt change management style based on the situation and the organization’s needs.
- Communication: Can effectively communicate complex ideas and information to diverse audiences, facilitate effective communication between others, and mentor others in effective communication.
- Continuous Improvement: Can identify major areas for improvement, implement major changes, and support others in their continuous improvement efforts.
- Detail-Oriented: Can oversee multiple projects, maintaining a high level of detail orientation, identifying errors or inconsistencies in work, and ensuring accuracy across all tasks.
- Documentation: Can manage complex documentation projects, collaborate with multiple stakeholders, and ensure documentation meets regulatory and organizational requirements.
- Leadership: Can take ownership of complex team initiatives, collaborate with others in decision-making processes, and drive team performance.
- Problem-Solving: Can proactively identify and take ownership of complex problem-solving initiatives, initiate preventative measures, collaborate with others to find solutions, and drive successful outcomes.
- Technical Expertise: Can demonstrate a high level of technical expertise in a specified area and can serve as a resource for others.

Skill Level Requirements

- Ability to create clear and effective technical documentation - Intermediate
- Demonstrated deep technical knowledge and proficiency in multiple technology areas to provide expert guidance and solutions - Intermediate
- Ability to implement and manage DevOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and monitoring to enhance the collaboration between development and operations teams - Intermediate
- Experience in various project management frameworks such as Agile, Waterfall, and Scrum to effectively plan, execute, and close projects - Intermediate
- The ability to understand and implement best practices and measures for system security to protect organizational data and infrastructure - Intermediate
- Ability to oversee and direct projects to completion, ensuring goals are met, resources are utilized efficiently, and stakeholders are satisfied - Intermediate
- Ability to design, develop, and integrate APIs to enable seamless communication between software applications and services - Intermediate
- Expertise in designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based solutions to optimize performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency - Intermediate

Other Requirements

- Completed Bachelor’s Degree in related discipline or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years of progressive technology experience, including 5+ years in architecture, technology strategy, or large-scale technology transformation.

- Demonstrated experience personally producing architecture artifacts, including architecture models, roadmaps, principles, standards, reference architectures, and assessments.

- Experience performing application or technology portfolio rationalization and developing modernization strategies.

- Experience leading or participating in architecture reviews and facilitating complex technology decisions and trade-offs.

- Deep expertise in at least one architecture domain, such as applications/software, infrastructure/cloud, data/integration, cybersecurity, or AI, with sufficient breadth to work across adjacent domains.

- Strong ability to connect business capabilities and objectives to technology architecture and investment decisions.

- Strong executive, business, and technical communication and facilitation skills.

Preferred Requirements

- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.

The estimated annual pay range for this position is $185,000 - $220,000 which is a base salary. The compensation for this position is dependent on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location and, therefore, will vary from individual to individual. Benefits may include, but are not limited to, medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending.

Equal Employment Opportunity – M/F/Disability/Protected Veteran Status