ITS Enterprise Architect

Southern New Hampshire University is a team of innovators. Since 1932, our people-centered strategy has defined us - and helped us grow a team that now serves over 180,000 learners worldwide.
At SNHU, you'll have the option to work remotely in the following states: We ask that our remote employees have access to a reliable internet connection and a dedicated, properly equipped workspace that is free of distractions. The Enterprise Architect will report to The Vice President of Technology and Innovation. The Enterprise Architect is a business and technology expert who takes a big picture view of SNHU's business capabilities, future needs, and external technology trends to build a holistic technology roadmap helping SNHU meet its long-term goals. The Enterprise Architect works with both business and IT partners, aligns IT projects with long-term goals, and advises on technologies and trends which could improve SNHU. In close collaboration with domain architects, you will ensure that IT roadmaps for all domains (business, data, application and technology) are well designed and aligned with strategy.
The Enterprise Architect educates technology teams about frameworks and best practices, helps to determine operational gaps, and recommends improvements. You will be a necessary player in architecture governance for our organization, ensuring that applications, infrastructure, and processes comply with enterprise standards. The Enterprise Architect helps to promote competitive advantage through information technology by increasing flexibility, reducing costs, and regulating mission-critical technology environments at SNHU.
You can work remotely from any of our approved states. #LI-Remote
Gather and maintain holistic view of our strategy, processes, information and technology assets; participate in strategic planning and develop/communicate plans to grow the strategy.
Participate in digital strategy decisions and provide digital business model consulting within IT teams.
Consult on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems or infrastructure with the enterprise technology architecture; identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise technical architecture to accommodate immediate or future project needs.
Create current- and target-state enterprise architectures, configurations and documentation.
Appraise existing enterprise architecture regarding completeness of scope, level of detail, quality of work.
Help to define and measure project-specific architectural and technology quality metrics.
Coordinate, approve projects to ensure that they are compliant with architectural standards, guidelines. Validate implementations against defined enterprise architecture and quality metrics.
Identify weak links in our IT strategy and implementation and recommend ways to close the gaps.
Ensure technology solutions are according to enterprise architecture principles and target state.
Help to design and direct governance activities to ensure enterprise architecture quality assurance and compliance.
Create high quality deliverables for target audience and purpose including architecture roadmaps, as-is and to-be models, reference implementations, configurations, presentations, and cost/benefit analysis.
Implement systems and controls to measure performance and manage risk.
Promote adoption of Unified Modeling Language diagramming standards for technical design and specifications, which could include Information Engineering notation for database design, Business Process Management Notation for business and technical process maps.
Support project management methods (Predictive, Agile) by assisting with planning, providing estimates and work breakdown structures for your work, reporting progress to ensure predictable and successful achievement of desired outcomes.
Circulate roadmaps to align IT priorities; collaborate with the architecture team and IT teams to achieve common goals.
Promote architecture and strategies to business executives and project leaders to gain team member commitment.
Provide consulting support to architects with diverse teams (application, infrastructure, integration, and data) to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture and designs are optimized.
Provide guidance to the ePMO, project teams, developers, and other technical team members to ensure they take account of relevant architecture, strategies and practices, and that existing and planned solution components remain compatible.
Provide high-quality documentation and assistance to team members tailored for specific audience and purpose.
Partner with project managers, team members, other architects, analysts, and peers to ensure clarity of roles and responsibilities and resolve areas of confusion or overlap to ensure high-performing teams.
Experience with enterprise architecture, application development, or systems management including designing, integrating, and managing complex IT solutions expected.
~ Experience leading Software/System Development Lifecycle and Integration.
~ Experience leading system/process/data modeling tools and techniques.
~ Experience with multiple project management and development methodologies (Predictive, Agile).
~ Experience with network and security architecture.
~ Experience with software, hardware, data and corporate technology trends (e.g. Cloud, IaaS, PaaS, DevOps, ETL, AI)
~ Demonstrated scope of technology skills across application, security and infrastructure domains.
~ We believe real innovation comes from inclusion - where different experiences, perspectives and talents are celebrated. Actual offer will be based on skills, qualifications, experience and internal equity, in addition to relevant business considerations. We expect this position to be hired in the following target hiring range $152,311.00 - ]]