Enterprise Architecture Process Lead

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •7+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, architecture governance, or IT process/operating-model design
• •hands-on ownership of end-to-end EA processes, workflows, and continuous improvement
• •Prior experience in the financial industry (e.g., bank, broker-dealer, asset manager, or fintech)
• •Ability to operate effectively in a regulated financial services environment
• •working knowledge of technology risk, audit, and control expectations (e.g., policy/standard compliance, exception handling, documentation discipline)
• •Demonstrated experience designing and improving architecture governance workflows—such as intake, design review, architecture review boards/councils, decision records (ADRs), and deployment readiness
• •experience defining entry/exit criteria, outputs, ownership, and controls evidence for each step
• •Proven ability to define and maintain operating models, including RACI, engagement/interaction models, and escalation paths across architecture roles (e.g., Enterprise, Group, Solution, and Domain Architects) and delivery and governance stakeholders
• •Experience managing EA and architecture tooling—including architecture repositories, intake and approved tech stack (ATS) workflows, and ITSM/CMDB platforms (e.g., LeanIX, ServiceNow, Alfabet, Planview, or similar)
• •experience covering data quality management, governance workflow configuration, and process automation
• •Proficiency in reporting and visualization (e.g., Excel, SQL, Power BI/Tableau) to build and maintain dashboards and KPIs that track process health, throughput, cycle time, decision volumes, standards adherence, and governance outcomes
• •Proven ability to partner with Operations and Governance leads, engineering, infrastructure, and security to drive outcomes through influence
• •experience defining SOPs and service levels, aligning process design to architecture standards and guardrails, and managing exceptions and escalations
• •Strong documentation and process design skills, including authoring operating procedures, playbooks, RACI models, and controls evidence
• •experience driving continuous improvement of workflows, taxonomies, and governance cadences
• •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Desired Qualifications

• •advanced degree and/or relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, BIAN, ITIL, FinOps, TBM)
• •experience enabling an Architecture Community of Practice through training and rollout
• •experience in designing and improving architecture governance workflows—such as intake, design review, architecture review boards/councils, decision records (ADRs), and deployment readiness—including defining entry/exit criteria, outputs, ownership, and controls evidence for each step
• •experience managing EA and architecture tooling—including architecture repositories, intake and approved tech stack (ATS) workflows, and ITSM/CMDB platforms (e.g., LeanIX, ServiceNow, Alfabet, Planview, or similar)—covering data quality management, governance workflow configuration, and process automation
• •Proficiency in reporting and visualization (e.g., Excel, SQL, Power BI/Tableau) to build and maintain dashboards and KPIs that track process health, throughput, cycle time, decision volumes, standards adherence, and governance outcomes
• •Proven ability to partner with Operations and Governance leads, engineering, infrastructure, and security to drive outcomes through influence—defining SOPs and service levels, aligning process design to architecture standards and guardrails, and managing exceptions and escalations
• •Strong documentation and process design skills, including authoring operating procedures, playbooks, RACI models, and controls evidence, and driving continuous improvement of workflows, taxonomies, and governance cadences; experience enabling an Architecture Community of Practice through training and rollout is a plus
• •Demonstrated ability to design and enforce EA processes and standards, build target-state operating models, and communicate process performance and governance insights through clear dashboards and executive-ready narratives