Director – Tech Solutions – Enterprise Architecture

Director – Tech Solutions – Enterprise Architecture

Requirements

• 10-15 years of proven and progressive experience in IT
• Proven work experience as an Enterprise Architect or similar role
• 2+ years of technical leadership in a large enterprise/professional services company
• Extensive experience managing a global team of varying levels and areas of technical expertise
• Experience defining strategy and operationalizing enterprise architecture practices by establishing standards, best practices, and maintaining EA tools to ensure consistent execution across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology leaders to define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision and strategy in alignment with organizational goals and business priorities
• Act as a bridge between business and technology, ensuring architectural decisions support strategic objectives and deliver business value.
• Develop an enterprise-wide blueprint for major domain interactions, highlighting crucial integration points and ensuring compatibility between current systems and new initiatives.
• Develop and communicate roadmaps for key architectural domains (data, application, infrastructure, security) to align stakeholders and guide execution.
• Design the cross-domain blueprint for the Enterprise, including capabilities, functions and services required.
• Establish and enforce architectural frameworks, principles, standards, and best practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and security across the enterprise
• Lead the design of high-level architectures to guide and govern design and development for core systems, integrations, and platforms, ensuring a cohesive and efficient technology ecosystem.
• Govern and review technology initiatives to ensure alignment with architectural standards and long-term strategies, while addressing risks and gaps.
• Define strategies for data democratization and interoperability, breaking down silos and enabling seamless access and integration across teams and systems.
• Advise on design of APIs, integration layers, and scalable data architectures to support real-time data sharing and advanced analytics.
• Develop and maintain a high-level data capability map to document critical datasets, ownership, and opportunities for better connectivity.
• Conduct research and evaluate emerging technologies, identifying trends and opportunities that can drive business innovation and fill gaps in the existing technology stack.
• Assess and recommend new tools, platforms, and solutions by balancing technical feasibility with business impact.
• Drive proof-of-concept initiatives and collaborate with cross-functional teams to validate and implement new technologies.
• Contribute to creation of playbook and other materials/artifacts that capture Enterprise Architecture strategy, progress, etc.
• Create and maintain a vision for the architecture team and roles, with potential to manage Enterprise Architecture professionals and their professional development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Collaborative – knows how to work with and through others to drive results and make change happen in the pursuit of world-class customer user experiences
• Entrepreneurial, proactive, and productive – knows how to prioritize what needs to be done and rallies colleagues to get things accomplished; “roll up the sleeves” type of attitude
• Bright – both insightful and creative, strong problem-solving skills, and pragmatic “real-world” sense of what is actually “do-able”. Able to harness knowledge and expertise of the best industry content to support analytics at Bain
• Articulate and compelling – engaging and concise in oral and written communication skills with interpersonal “presence”; adaptable across executive, technical and Bain audiences
• Energetic, with drive, enthusiasm, and natural skills in relationship development – well-connected, with an extensive and/or growing network of potentially relevant relationships
• A great colleague and teammate – passionate about the task at hand and fun to be around; someone with whom Bainies go out of their way to work with