What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Enterprise Architect III position at Matrix?
Description Job Summary
The IT Enterprise Architect III is responsible for best practices to design, implement, and manage our enterprise architecture. This role involves developing and maintaining an enterprise-wide architecture that aligns with our business goals, ensuring the efficient and effective use of IT resources. The Enterprise Architect III will provide technology guidance, road maps, principles, standards, and best practices. The Enterprise Architect III will collaborate with IT and Business stakeholders to understand business requirements, create architectural models, and provide strategic guidance to drive innovation and digital transformation.
This position is located in Tulsa, OK.
Essential Functions
- Actively supports the Company's commitment to safety and its "Core Values".
- Represents the Company at all times with high moral standards while adhering to the Company's "Code of Business Conduct and Ethics".
- Maintains positive working relationships with associates. Fits well within the organizational culture for interacting with others. Possesses good interpersonal skills.
- Aligns architecture strategy with business goals, ensuring that the IT architecture supports the corporate business strategy.
- Provides overall direction, guidance, and definition of IT architecture to effectively support the corporate business strategy.
- Serves as a resource and supports all architectural disciplines, championing architectural initiatives across the organization.
- Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures to ensure consistency and compliance.
- Promotes the EA process, outcomes, and results by communicating effectively with the organization and senior leadership.
- Leads and facilitates the creation of governing principles to guide EA decision-making processes.
- Leads the EA governance processes to ensure adherence to architectural standards and principles.
- Manages exceptions to architectural standards, handling deviations at an enterprise level.
- Reviews and / or analyzes and develops architectural requirements to ensure alignment with organizational needs.
- Ensures the conceptual completeness of technical solutions, validating that solutions meet business and technical requirements.
- Consults with project teams to align projects with enterprise architecture and identify necessary modifications.
- Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.
- Leads the EA review board in coordination with IT leadership, ensuring solutions are compliant with target-state architecture models and receive necessary approvals.
- Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains.
- Reviews existing business processes and leads programs to develop, maintain, and govern the enterprise architecture across the organization.
- Serves as a resource for IT leadership and architecture teams in creating comprehensive EA documentation, while also being responsible for training and developing the architecture team to ensure continuous improvement and eventual self-sufficiency.
- In coordination with IT leadership, leads modification of the enterprise architecture to accommodate project needs.
- Develops a communication plan for architecture at the enterprise level to ensure clear and consistent messaging.
- Conducts research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends to keep the organization informed of relevant developments.
- Performs additional responsibilities, as directed.
Qualifications
Physical / Special Requirements
Full-time employees are offered a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, disability benefits, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program (EAP), a 401(k) plan with company match, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), a robust wellness program and adoption assistance. Some employees may also be eligible for paid time off, tuition reimbursement and a performance or safety bonus program.
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EEO / M / F / Disability / Vets / Affirmative Action Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, marital status, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristic or category.