Manager, IT Enterprise Architecture

Functions

ESSENTIAL 

• Support enterprise architecture engagement with business and IT stakeholders, working closely with the Director of EA for new business initiatives.
• Conduct current-state and future-state architectural assessments, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities for optimization and modernization.
• Develop and maintain enterprise and solution architectures, including reference architectures, standards, and guiding principles.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, security, data, and integration teams to design cross-domain, scalable, and secure solutions.
• Support and actively participate in Architecture Review Board (ARB) processes, ensuring architectural consistency, risk mitigation, and governance compliance.
• Participate in the evaluation of technologies, platforms, and vendors; provide architecture-based recommendations to support investment and roadmap decisions.
• Mentor and guide architects and analysts, fostering architectural rigor, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with IT and business leadership to align architectural priorities with strategic initiatives and delivery roadmaps.
• Ensure architectural decisions considering security, compliance, resilience, and operational sustainability.
• Support enterprise application portfolio management activities, including rationalization, lifecycle management, and technology roadmap planning.
• Foster a positive team culture through motivation, collaboration, empowerment, coaching, mentoring, and training.
• Supervise the day-to-day activities of the team to ensure effective support of EA initiatives.
• Utilize effective organizational change management, including training, communication, and organizational alignment.
• Working with senior management and other peers for strategy development and execution planning   

Qualifications

REQUIRED

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or a related field. 

• 10 years of progressive experience in IT with significant exposure to enterprise or solution architecture roles

• Minimum two (2) years of experience leading Enterprise Architecture

• Minimum one (1) year of experience working with any EA tools like ServiceNow APM, LeanIX, Bizzdesign or Orbus.

   

DESIRED

• Formal architecture qualifications (e.g.: TOGAF)

• Experience with enterprise application portfolio management, including rationalization, TCO analysis, and lifecycle planning Experience with Master Data Management

• Experience in large, global, or asset-intensive organizations.

• Prior people leadership or matrix leadership experience.

• Experience in the energy, offshore, or industrial services industry

• Prior experience working with multiple cultures and .

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Supervises a team including Onshore/Offshore Employees and consultants.

• Providing guidance to direct reports 

  • Ensuring clarity around priorities and goals for the entire functional area 

  • Working across functions with peers in other groups to ensure collaboration for shared goals 

  • Communicating goal results and key performance indicators to direct reports 

  • Facilitating goal-level creation for the broader function and working with managers to ensure the goals cascade to all workers