Job Description

Job Description

A  Principal Enterprise Architect  is needed for a contract-to-hire opportunity in Columbus, Ohio. The focus for this role is on full stack DevSecOps within an architecture role. Reporting to the Head of Architecture, the Principal Enterprise Architect works closely with the Application Development, Infrastructure, Security, Data & Analytics, and PMO teams to provide overall architecture leadership.

• On-site schedule (until Sept 2025) – Monday/Thursday/Friday remote; Tuesday/Wednesday onsite
• Green card holders and US Citizens are eligible for these roles.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of relevant enterprise-wide architecture, including but not limited to the Application / DevSecOps technologies listed below
• Deep understanding of various aspects of Application / DevSecOps capabilities listed below
• Experience in directing and mentoring other architects in the team and across the organization.
• Experience with on-premise solutions and cloud platforms on Azure, AWS.
• Application Domain Qualifications: Technologies:- Concourse- Copado- Copilot- Docker- Gearset- GitHub- Jenkins- Kubernetes- Postman- Salesforce- SAP- ServiceNow- Sonar
• Application Domain Capability Areas: AI/ML- API Gateway & Management- Application Components- Development Tools- DevSecOps- GenAI- Integration- Intelligent Automation- Runtime Environments- Security
• Deep knowledge of API-first design patterns, technology skills across multiple IT domains (. application, data, infrastructure, security)
• Strong consultative skills at a cross-functional level
• Strong skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and LeanIX
• Knowledge of TOGAF, ITIL, and other architecture / business process frameworks
• Experience in application development, systems management, and/or project management is a plus.
• Leadership competencies in: Organizing and Setting Priorities- Managing and Measuring Work- Peer Relationships- Continuous Improvement- Motivating Others- Self-motivated; capable of managing multiple tasks.

Responsibilities:

• The Principal Enterprise Architect must possess deep technology experiences with DevSecOps, APIs, and application development lifecycles to build out the architecture vision, strategy, and capability roadmap.
• The ideal candidate will have extensive experience envisioning and translating overall architecture with business needs via transformation roadmaps, establish target architecture and standards for the organization, building consensus, and provide guidance in the selling and execution within solution development processes of options and reuse points.
• Provides senior level expertise on overall direction, guidance, definition, decisions, and priorities regarding the enterprise’s overall architecture to effectively support the organization business strategy.
• Interact with business leaders, IT leaders, vendors and industry experts to translate business requirements, understand options to capabilities, and create architecture blueprints and high-level solution designs for the most complex architectural components of a program.
• Strategy – Interfaces across several business areas, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining direction for future projects. Help business leaders and their teams think through the technology, business and operational implications of their technology investment decisions.
• Execution – Reviews, advises, and designs standard software and hardware builds, system options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on the enterprise business process and goals. Be the architecture thought leader and trusted go-to partner for Product and Engineering leadership across the organization, recommending innovative solutions to improve live and new system architectures.
• Operations – Facilitates the establishment and implementation of standards and reference material that guides the design of technology solutions. Lead architectural collaboration and governing processes including Architecture Review Boards, Solution Architecture reviews, exception management, and related processes.
• Innovation – Responsible for researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and delivering solutions that are appropriate for the business and technologies strategies. Tracks industry trends and maintains knowledge of new technologies to better serve the enterprise’s architecture needs.

Job ID:

1028424

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