Enterprise Architecture Director

5 days ago

Akron, Ohio, United States FirstEnergy Full time

About the Opportunity

This is an open position with FirstEnergy Service Co., a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp.

The Chief Architect leads an enterprise-wide senior team of architects in designing, documenting, and delivering the target architecture for our organization's products, platforms, services, infrastructure, applications, and data.

This leader plays an integral role in partnering with key stakeholders across the business to evangelize technology vision, strategy, value, and ensure that technology aligns with and supports the organization's strategic goals, objectives, and desired outcomes.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide thought leadership and work across the organization to develop effective partnerships with other members of executive and senior leadership, creating and executing on a common vision while identifying and solutioning data-based risk and opportunities in the near and long term.
  • Develop and maintain a comprehensive enterprise architecture strategy that enables and aligns with the organization's business goals and objectives.
  • Define and communicate the target enterprise architecture and suite of architectures for the organization that encompasses people, process, data, and technology.
  • Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends to ensure the architecture remains innovative and future-proof.
  • Establish and maintain a robust architecture governance framework, and governing bodies, including standards, guidelines, and processes.
  • Establish, lead a group to review and evaluate proposed technology initiatives against the enterprise architecture.
  • Ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices in enterprise architecture.
  • Lead a team of senior technologies and architects in designing, documenting, and delivering the enterprise architecture.
  • Partner with the broader technology organization to implement the enterprise architecture.
  • Develop and deliver training programs to educate stakeholders on the enterprise architecture.
  • Identify and implement tools and technologies to support effective architecture management.
  • Partner with business leaders across the organization to understand their needs and ensure the enterprise architecture supports their strategic goals.
  • Communicate the enterprise architecture vision and strategy effectively to all stakeholders.
  • Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across Technology and the business.
  • Foster a culture where employees own, promote, and reinforce FirstEnergy's values and behaviors and feel empowered.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related discipline required; master's degree preferred.
  • Minimum of 15 years relevant work experience at progressively increasing levels of responsibility and leadership is required. Relevant experience includes experience in enterprise architecture or related field.
  • Strong understanding of IT infrastructure, applications, data management, and security principles.
  • Experience in leading and mentoring a team of architects.
  • Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman Framework).

Benefits, Compensation & Workforce Diversity

At FirstEnergy, employees are key to our success. We depend on their talents to meet the challenges of our changing business environment.

We are committed to rewarding individual and team efforts through our total rewards philosophy which includes competitive pay plus incentive compensation, a company-sponsored pension plan, 401(k) savings plan with matching employer contribution, a choice of medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and life insurance programs, as well as skills development training with tuition reimbursement.

Please visit our website to learn more about all of our employee rewards programs.

FirstEnergy proudly supports workforce diversity.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

No recruiters or agencies without a previously signed contract. Unable to sponsor or transfer H-1B visas at this time.

Safety

Safety is a core value for FirstEnergy and is essential to all of our business activities.

We ensure employees have the tools, information, and processes to perform their duties in a manner that assures safety for themselves, their co-workers, our customers, and the public.

Our goals are to provide a safe work environment, to maintain an accident-free, injury-free workplace, and to promote and maintain public safety.

To meet these goals, we dedicate ourselves to achieving world-class safety standards.

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