Senior Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Senior Enterprise Architect

Location: Pittsburgh PA (Onsite 5 days)

Duration: 1 + year (Extendable)

Overview

Client is looking for a senior Enterprise Architect to help define the organization's future-state architecture and guide enterprise integration platform initiatives. The role is intended for someone who can challenge the current technology landscape, evaluate emerging technologies, and provide practical modernization roadmaps aligned with security and regulatory expectations.

Key Responsibilities

Define and communicate the target enterprise architecture.

Evaluate new technologies and architectural patterns for enterprise adoption.

Provide clear migration and modernization roadmaps.

Lead enterprise integration platform initiatives from architecture through delivery.

Work closely with senior leadership on strategic technology decisions includes CIO and Other C level executives

Collaborate with internal engineering teams and third-party partners.

Establish architecture standards and governance across enterprise applications.

Recommend technology solutions that align with enterprise policies and long-term business objectives.

Capable of justifying technology choices (Java vs .NET) based on enterprise standards, existing developer skill sets, maintainability, scalability, and security.

Broad enterprise architecture expertise is more important than deep lending workflow knowledge.

Seen as a go-to advisor for evaluating new technologies.

Senior architect with a strong enterprise-wide technical perspective.

Able to communicate effectively with executive stakeholders.

Comfortable leading architecture discussions and guiding implementation teams.

Technical Focus

Java Spring Boot or .NET

Enterprise API design and integration

Microservices and modern application architecture

Cloud and hybrid integration patterns

Security and governance considerations

Technology evaluation and modernization strategy