Enterprise Platform Architect

Title: Enterprise Platform Architect
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL 
Duration: Permanent 
Compensation: $165,000- $180,000
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S. 

Enterprise Platform Architect

About the job

The Enterprise Platform Architect is a senior technical and strategic leader. They provide advice and influence the development of enterprise platform capabilities. Their work ensures that solutions are secure, scalable, and reusable across the organization.

The role works closely with platform teams, Business Enablement, and architecture governance bodies. It helps to shape platform standards and reference architecture. The focus is on providing guidance and recommendations. There is no direct ownership or enforcement involved.

The Enterprise Platform Architect works closely with the Business Enablement and Platform teams. This includes SecTechOps and OCTO/DevSecOps. They make sure that platform services comply with enterprise architecture principles. They also ensure services align with the cloud strategy and support long-term business goals. The role balances near term delivery enablement with long term platform sustainability and modernization.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Standards-

• Advise on and influence the development of enterprise platform architectures. This includes creating reusable patterns. It also involves developing reference architectures and setting technical standards. Collaborate with platform teams and architecture governance bodies.
• Provide guidance on using shared platforms and services. These services include cloud, integration, identity, DevSecOps, data, and middleware. Assist teams in aligning with enterprise principles. They should also be able to keep their delivery autonomy.
• Work closely with the Business Enablement, Information Security, and Platform teams. Make sure platform designs meet security standards. Ensure they are resilient, scalable, and operationally effective.
• Translate enterprise architecture principles into useful guidance. This involves creating platform blueprints, decision trees, deployment patterns, and reference examples. Teams can use these consistently.
• Influence and promote the adoption of reusable platform patterns, golden paths, and reference implementations that accelerate delivery and reduce cognitive load for development teams.
• Support platform teams in evolving standards and patterns by providing enterprise context, cross domain insights, and impact analysis, rather than direct ownership or enforcement.

Strategic Advisory & Enablement-

• Serve as a senior platform architecture advisor to Business Enablement and Platforms, guiding design decisions, trade offs, and roadmap alignment.
• Support the solution and delivery teams. Explain the platform's capabilities and limitations. Discuss integration methods. Provide direction for architectural decisions on complex initiatives. These initiatives involve shared platforms and enterprise services. They cross multiple domains.
• Provide architectural direction for complex projects. These projects use shared platforms and enterprise services. They span across different domains.
• Influence platform adoption and standardization through collaboration rather than mandate.

Governance & Architecture Review-

• Document decisions about platform architecture. Ensure they are traceable and meet enterprise security standards.

Technical Debt & Maturity Management-

• Lead the strategy to reduce technical debt from outdated and unnecessary technologies. This involves identifying issues. Then, prioritize them and create solutions to fix them.
• Develop and maintain platform maturity models, assessment frameworks, and tracking mechanisms.
• Create dashboards and metrics to provide visibility into platform health, adoption, and risk.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to embed technical debt considerations into planning and delivery cycles.

Lifecycle & Roadmap Management-
 

• Lead practices for managing the platform's lifecycle. This includes forecasting technology needs. It also involves assessing supportability and planning for when the platform reaches end-of-life.
• Ensure architecture repositories and inventories reflect current and future state platform roadmaps.
• Support planning based on capabilities. Provide views focused on the platform, options, and models for future states.

Collaboration & Execution Support-

• Facilitate and lead platform architecture design sessions, reviews, and stakeholder working forums.
• Partner with engineering, security, infrastructure, and operations teams throughout design, build, and run phases.
• Support the transition from architectural guidance to execution through hands on collaboration and enablement.
• Act as an escalation point for complex platform design challenges and cross platform integration issues.

Support & Troubleshooting-

• Serve as an escalation point for complex platform and shared service architecture issues.
• Assist delivery and operations teams in resolving architecture related risks, constraints, and dependencies.
• Operate successfully in a dynamic enterprise environment, balancing short term delivery needs with long term platform strategy.

Qualifications
Required Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise, platform, solution, or domain architecture roles.
• Proven experience defining and governing enterprise platform standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Solid background in cloud architecture, with deep hands on and design experience in Microsoft Azure preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading or evolving architecture governance and review processes.
• Experience developing and executing technical debt management strategies and maturity models.
• Experience with technology and platform lifecycle management, including forecasting and end of life planning.
• A solid knowledge of enterprise platforms is important. You also need to be familiar with shared services and integration architectures.
• Proven ability to collaborate with InfoSec, Business Enablement, Platform, DevSecOps, and application teams.
• Ability to translate business strategy into platform roadmaps and future state architectures.
• Solid influence and communication skills, with experience engaging senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience working across multiple business units in a federated enterprise environment
• Proficient analytical, systems thinking, and problem solving skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with LeanIX, ServiceNow, or enterprise architecture repositories.
• Experience designing or governing cloud platforms, shared services, and reusable implementation patterns.
• Background in platform centric solution architecture (security or infrastructure architecture a plus).
• Experience in building architecture dashboards. Experience with inventories. Experience with maturity assessments.
• Familiarity with Power Platform for enterprise tooling, workflow automation, and governance enablement.
• Experience in supporting large transformation projects. This includes initiatives for modernization and portfolio rationalization.
• Architecture certifications such as TOGAF, Azure Architecture, or equivalent are a plus.

Technologies & Domains
 

• Platform Domains: Cloud platforms, Data and Integration services, identity, End User and Infrastructure.
• Architecture and EA Tooling include these tools: LeanIX, ServiceNow, architecture repositories, and modeling tools.
• Governance and Process include Architecture Review Boards. They involve decision frameworks. They also include the development of standards.
• Modeling: Capability models, platform roadmaps, lifecycle and dependency mapping
• Data Sources: Cloud inventories, CMDBs, application portfolios, platform and technology roadmaps

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