Principal Enterprise Architect
Core
Define and sustain enterprise architecture strategies, principles, and roadmaps to align technology with business goals in a financial services organization.
Role type
Principal Enterprise Architect / Business Architect
Builds
Enterprise-wide technology and business landscape alignment, strategic roadmaps, and capability maps
Domain
Financial services (insurance, investment, wealth management)
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Enterprise architecture strategy, business architecture concepts (capabilities, value streams, information models), cloud platforms, integration approaches, data architectures, security, influence without authority, large-scale organization experience
Preferred skills
TOGAF, SAFe, BIZBOK, IIBA, business transformation program support, facilitation, stakeholder management
Technologies
AI, API, Cloud, Security, TOGAF
Responsibilities
Define enterprise architecture strategies and target-state roadmaps, partner with technology and data teams to shape solution design, provide architectural guidance for major initiatives, assess emerging technologies and their business implications, simplify environment through application and platform rationalization, ensure designs meet regulatory and resiliency expectations, translate strategy into business capabilities and operating models, collaborate with business leaders to define outcomes and trade-offs, support portfolio planning by linking objectives to investments, mentor architects and strengthen architecture practices
Seniority
Principal, strategy & mentorship