Senior Enterprise Architect

Role summary / purpose We are seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect – Integration to provide enterprise-level architecture leadership for how applications, platforms, and services connect, communicate, and exchange data across the organization. As part of Enterprise Architecture, this role will help shape the integration strategy and architecture across a diverse technology landscape spanning corporate functions, operational technology, ERP, financial services, R&D, manufacturing, and service solutions. The role is responsible for establishing and guiding enterprise integration architecture, standards, patterns, and governance, ensuring that integration approaches are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with broader enterprise architecture principles and technology strategy. The technology landscape includes a combination of modern and legacy applications, on-premises systems, SaaS platforms, commercial off-the-shelf solutions, vendor-hosted platforms, APIs, and other integration technologies. A key focus of the position is providing architecture oversight and strategic guidance throughout solution design and delivery. The Senior Enterprise Architect will conduct solution design and architecture reviews, evaluate proposed integration approaches, identify architectural risks and dependencies, and help ensure alignment with enterprise integration standards and strategic direction. The role will also serve as a trusted advisor and consultant to federated application and solution teams, helping them evaluate integration options and trade-offs and establish the most appropriate integration approach based on business, functional, technical, security, data, and operational requirements. Key responsibilities Enterprise Integration Strategy & Architecture • Define the enterprise integration vision, roadmap, reference architectures, and approved patterns across a mix of legacy, on-prem, SaaS, and cloud platforms • Evaluate how new technologies and solutions will integrate with the existing landscape, assessing security, performance, scalability, maintainability, and supportability • Determine the right integration approach (API, messaging, event-driven, file/ETL, middleware) based on system constraints, vendor limitations, and long-term fit • Define disposition strategies for legacy middleware and integrations (retain, retire, replace, modernize) and balance near-term delivery with reducing technical debt Architecture Review & Integration Governance • Lead architecture reviews focused on integrations and system-to-system communication. Review proposed designs against business and technical requirements, identify gaps, and guide teams to fix them • Build and lead a formal integration governance process, potentially including an Integration Governance Committee of application owners, data providers, and SMEs • Replace ad hoc point-to-point builds and direct database access with enterprise-approved, reusable patterns that protect source systems and prevent duplicate integrations • Establish standards for versioning, lifecycle management, security, documentation, and monitoring so the organization has full visibility into how data moves across the enterprise Standards, Enablement & Best Practices • Author and maintain integration standards, playbooks, SOPs, and tool-selection guidance by architecture style, use case, and platform • Promote adoption through learning sessions, design consultations, and reusable components and share…