Enterprise Architecture Lead

United States

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.

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