Director-Enterprise Architecture - Seattle, WA

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$185,000 - 225,000 per year

This is a Hybrid role and consists of a combination of WFH In Person work

Our Carrix IT team is seeking a highly focused and experienced Director-Enterprise Architecture to establish and lead an architecture practice. This role is crucial in transforming our organization by identifying customer requirements, building scalable platforms, and ensuring alignment with our mission and values.

• Develops and maintains a comprehensive enterprise architecture framework, standards, governance principles, and provides strategic guidance on technology acquisition and lifecycle management.
• Leads managers, architects, and IT professionals through guidance, coaching, and support to ensure assignments are completed in accordance with established guidelines, policies, standards, and procedures. Understands the overall organizational vision and translates it into team goals aligned with departmental and organizational goals.
• Collaborates and provides strategic guidance to key stakeholders, department heads, and senior management on enterprise architecture and technology-related matters including risks, opportunities, potential impacts, and prioritization.
• Ensures IT Architecture and associated technology solutions are in place to meet business objectives and responds quickly with agility to changing business priorities.
• Facilitates the creation and informs the enterprise architecture strategy with actionable roadmaps, to include emerging technologies, trends, and various architectural perspectives (e.g., business, information/data, application, technology and security)
• Creates a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement and leads teams through periods of change and transformation.
• Oversees the planning, design, implementation, and measurement of IT systems and ensures a balance between growing the agility required to achieve business objectives and ensuring core IT functions are reliable, stable, secure and efficient.
• Provides guidance on the implementation of large or complex projects and oversees progression while ensuring the department program portfolio is managed effectively through governance and planning processes. Engages in initiatives as needed to facilitate the realization of value and work with sponsorship to evaluate the achievement of value.
• Manages the department budget and financial resources including but not limited to technology services, software, hardware, and expense tracking ensuring the most effective use to maximize outcomes.
• Stays abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and regulatory changes, and provides direction on which emerging technologies should be introduced, integrated, and assimilated to improve operational effectiveness and manage risk.
• Participates in the evaluation and selection of vendors, review of contracts and management of vendor relationships to ensure cost-effective and reliable IT services and solutions.
• Partners effectively with third party service firms in support of the EA agenda and as enablers to the broader IT strategy.
• Partners effectively with Portfolio Management, Agile CoE, Product Management, IT Security, Supply Chain, Legal, and the broader IT Architecture community.
• Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders on the development of the technology capability roadmap.
• Collaborates on the development of IT policies, procedures, and standards, ensuring they are up to date and in line with area of responsibility and industry standards. Ensures compliance with established policies, procedures, and standards.
• Collaborates with management on the design of an organizational structure and operating model to meet business objectives.
• Leads the organizational change initiatives, ensuring smooth transition with minimal disruption.
• Responsible for recruitment, development, retention, performance management, and succession planning that will lead to a strong talent pipeline.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degree required.
• 10 years of diversified IT experience required.
• 5+ years managing first level leaders and high-level professional staff required.
• 5 + years of experience in technical IT architect capacity preferred.
• 3+ years of experience leading and managing an Enterprise Architecture function preferred.
• Experience in leading and managing change within the organization, driving technology-enabled business transformations is required.
• Possesses a positive and proactive leadership style, with a strong executive presence, is required.
• Experience in leading and managing change within the organization, driving technology-enabled business transformations, is essential.
• ITIL, TOGAF, Agile, SAFe, PMI, Organization Change Management, and Lean Six Sigma certifications preferred.
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable and secure solutions preferred.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, microservices architecture, and emerging technologies such as generative AI and its applications preferred.
• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost/benefit tradeoff analysis, risk management, business ecosystems, to include "as a service" preferred.

Key Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Exhibits visionary thinking, with the ability to see the big picture and develop a strategic vision for the enterprise architecture practice, ensuring alignment with the company's overall business objectives.
• Influences and adapts rather than rely on authority, fostering innovation, agility, and a collaborative culture.
• Strong communication skills are essential for conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders clearly and effectively.
• Strong collaboration and team building skills, leading a cohesive team of architects and collaborating with key stakeholders across the organization.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities are crucial for addressing and resolving issues in the design, development, and implementation of enterprise architecture.
• Strong technical expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks, cloud platforms (AWS and Azure), artificial intelligence, ERP systems, and ITIL processes.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes

Work Environment:

• Exposure to computer screens.
• The noise level in work environment is usually moderate.
• Required hybrid work schedule, at least 3 days/week in office.
• Required job duties are performed in a professional office environment.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Eligible employees (and their families) may qualify for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as having basic life and accidental death insurance, short term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance. Employees will receive paid sick and vacation time, and company holidays if eligible. The company also offers up to twelve weeks of paid maternity leave, when applicable, 5 days of paid bereavement leave, and paid jury duty. Eligible employees can enroll in our company's 401k plan, as well as a retirement plan. Some employees may be eligible for discretionary and/or metric-based bonuses dependent on their position. The company also provides an Employee Assistance Program.