Enterprise Architecture Lead

Enterprise Architecture Lead 

Monday-Friday 8am-5pm

On-Site or Remote 

Open to Any CSC Office 

CSC is looking for an Enterprise Architecture Lead, a strategic and hands-on leadership role responsible for shaping, governing, and evolving the enterprise architecture, with a strong emphasis on delivering scalable, secure, and resilient hybrid-cloud infrastructure solutions, to align with business goals and technology transformation. This role leads a team of architects across domains (e.g., solution, security, data, infrastructure, business and applications) and partners with business and technology leaders to ensure that architecture is a catalyst for innovation, scalability, and measurable value delivery.

ET provides global platforms and infrastructure to business-unit oriented digital product teams. ET is embarking on a transformation to enable a full self-service hybrid cloud. We are enabling infrastructure-as-code infrastructure platforms and self-service Iaas/PaaS-like products. We are making a significant investment in new and refactored cloud-ready modern applications.

Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Alignment
•    Define and evolve the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with corporate objectives.
•    Partner with Strategy, Engineering, and Product teams to translate business goals into architectural direction and outcomes.
•    Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, providing insights on technology trends, risks, and opportunities.
•    Partner with business leaders to translate strategic goals into enterprise capability maps and transformation roadmaps.
•    Facilitate enterprise-wide architecture planning sessions to align business, application, and technology strategies.
Business & Application Architecture
•    Define and evolve business capability models and value streams in partnership with business stakeholders.
•    Align application portfolios with business capabilities, identifying opportunities for consolidation, modernization, or innovation.
•    Lead the development of application reference architectures and patterns that support agility, scalability, and reuse.
•    Collaborate with business analysts, product managers, and process owners to ensure architecture supports business process optimization and digital transformation.
•    Drive alignment between business strategy and IT investments through capability-based planning and road mapping.
Hybrid-Cloud Architecture
•    Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-wide cloud and hybrid-cloud strategies, ensuring alignment with business and technical objectives.
•    Drive adoption of cloud-native and hybrid-cloud infrastructure patterns, including containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.
•    Define cloud governance models, landing zones, and security architectures across public and private cloud environments.
•    Collaborate with platform engineering and DevOps teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure.
•    Evaluate and select cloud service providers, tools, and platforms based on architectural fit, performance, and risk.
•    Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and operational standards in cloud deployments.
Architecture Governance & Enablement
•    Lead architecture governance forums, design reviews, and capability assessments to ensure alignment and compliance.
•    Establish and maintain architecture standards, reference models, and guardrails across domains.
•    Drive adoption of architecture tools (e.g., ABACUS) and ensure architecture documentation is current and actionable.
Team Leadership & Capability Development
•    Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of architects across multiple geographies and domains, understanding and adapting to local cultural norms, regulatory requirements, and workforce expectations while fostering a unified organizational culture.
•    Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and architectural excellence.
•    Develop and manage career paths, training programs, and communities of practice for architects, engineers, and product teams—including understanding local labor laws, hiring practices, and leadership pipeline development.
•    Define and manage by metrics—translating business goals into measurable outcomes, using dashboards, OKRs, and KPIs to track performance and guide continuous improvement.
Execution & Delivery Support
•    Embed architects within delivery teams to guide solution design, ensure alignment to target architecture, and support execution.
•    Collaborate with technical leaders and project owners to define architecture milestones, dependencies, and value realization.
•    Support procurement and vendor assessments with architectural input and risk evaluation.
•    Lead complex, multi-regional initiatives with clear accountability for delivering scope, quality, timeline, and budget—leveraging modern project management practices and tools.
•    Guide application rationalization and modernization efforts, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
•    Support business case development for major initiatives by providing architectural insights and impact assessments.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
•    Monitor emerging technologies and industry trends to inform strategic planning and innovation.
•    Promote architectural thinking across the organization through coaching, workshops, and enablement.
•    Drive continuous improvement in architectural practices, tools, and engagement models. 

Qualifications, technical skills, experience
Experience
•    12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
•    Highly self-motivated and directed, Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
•    Demonstrated hands-on experience across the full spectrum of architecture domains
•    Demonstrated experience in business architecture, including capability modeling, value stream mapping, and strategic planning.
•    Experience leading application architecture initiatives, including legacy modernization, SaaS adoption, and microservices design.
•    Proven track record of leading architectural initiatives and driving organizational change.
•    Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid-cloud infrastructure solutions (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware).
•    Deep understanding of cloud architecture principles, including multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and edge computing models.
•    Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
•    Experience establishing cloud governance, cost optimization, and operational monitoring frameworks.
•    Architecture for Strategy: Translating enterprise goals into strategic architecture blueprints and roadmaps.
•    Architecture for Portfolio: Structuring and governing programs and capability-aligned initiatives to ensure architectural coherence and value realization.
•    Architecture for Projects: Supporting project initiation, procurement, and delivery through architecture milestones, solution alignment, and risk mitigation.
•    Architecture for Solution Delivery: Defining implementation architectures, validating vendor solutions, and ensuring conformance to target state.
•    Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills, with ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
•    Ability to see the big picture and align architectural decisions with long-term business objectives. Strategic thinking ensures that platform architecture supports the overall goals of the organization.
•    Excellent analytical, planning, organizational and technical skills, with a focus on delivering practical and innovative solutions.

Leadership & Management
•    Proven ability to lead and scale architecture teams across domains (e.g., solution, security, data, infrastructure) and geographies.
•    Experience establishing and operating architecture governance boards, review forums, and communities of practice.
•    Skilled in coaching and mentoring architects and engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and architectural excellence.
•    Ability to manage architecture capability maturity, performance metrics, and knowledge management practices.
•    Value-based & Principle-based decision making
•    Demonstrated experience in working with a geographically dispersed team
Frameworks & Methodologies
•    Deep understanding and practical application of TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), including the Architecture Development Method (ADM), Architecture Content Framework, and Capability Framework.
•    Familiarity with complementary frameworks such as SABSA, Zachman, and ITIL.