Lead Enterprise Architect

Role overview

Lead enterprise architecture for a complex, long-term digital product engineering engagement. The role turns an established strategic roadmap into production solutions, keeping platform architecture coherent while guiding delivery across multiple teams and technologies. It pairs foundational platform and integration leadership with adjacent work on emerging AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

- Own architecture governance across the engagement, aligning solutions with enterprise standards, the agreed roadmap, and delivery quality expectations. - Design and coordinate solutions centered on digital experience platforms, integrating them with customer management systems, middleware, data infrastructure, and other enterprise services. - Guide the improvement of important web properties, balancing current platform needs with composable architecture that can support future modernization. - Define scalable integration patterns, APIs, data flows, system boundaries, and contracts between established platforms and AI-enabled services. - Stay involved in delivery through sprint-level architecture guidance, dependency mapping, technical debt management, and risk mitigation. - Work with technical and delivery leaders to shape solutions, maintain execution discipline, and progress capabilities against the strategic roadmap.

Requirements

- Deep experience in enterprise architecture and multi-platform solution design. - A product engineering mindset, with the ability to help decide what should be built and lead teams toward production delivery. - Experience designing integrations across digital experience platforms, APIs, middleware, and data systems. - Ability to govern complex delivery programs while remaining engaged with multidisciplinary engineering teams. - Strong architectural judgment around platform interoperability, delivery standards, and scalable solutions.

Benefits and work setup

The role is full time and permanent. Employees within commuting distance of designated offices are generally expected to work onsite three days each week, with a two-day expectation at one location; remote designation may be available based on location and business needs. Listed benefits include health, vision, and dental insurance, life and disability coverage, retirement savings, flexible paid time off, paid holidays, sick leave, and parental leave. The stated annual salary range is $136,000–$180,000, with placement dependent on relevant factors.