Enterprise Architecture Leader

Title: Enterprise Architecture Leader
Location: Houston, TX 77024 (hybrid)
Duration: Contract to hire
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

Job Description:
The Enterprise Architecture Leader is responsible for developing and maintaining enterprise-wide capabilities aligned with the organization's corporate strategy and domain-specific architecture requirements. This role contributes to long-term enterprise strategy, transformation initiatives, and the continuous evolution of architectural practices.

Key Responsibilities
Strategize

• Enrich the enterprise vision by defining target capabilities, supporting principles, policies, and current-state assessments across all enterprise architecture (EA) domains.
• Establish guiding principles and governance policies for interactions with suppliers, partners, and outsourcing arrangements.
• Define how enterprise capabilities align with domain-specific capabilities to ensure cohesion and strategic continuity.

Lead

• Identify, analyze, and evaluate new ideas, projects, technologies, and business models that impact multiple EA domains.
• Develop and mature the EA function, ensuring the availability of appropriate resources, skills, and talent.
• Support the Chief Architect in measuring, communicating, and demonstrating EA impact and effectiveness.
• Define organizational requirements for financial, skills-based, and process-oriented resources, as well as cultural and structural changes needed to sustain EA initiatives.
• Oversee EA implementation across domains and guide continuous refinement activities.

Architect

• Champion innovation by shifting the architectural mindset from technology-driven to business-outcome-driven.
• Assess the current IT landscape to identify deficiencies and recommend improvements.
• Oversee documentation related to architectural design, analysis, and standards.
• Lead the evaluation of software and hardware standards.
• Advise application and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, and recommend architectural modifications when necessary.

Govern

• Contribute to the development and execution of governance principles that drive data, technology, and solution-level decision-making.
• Support EA governance structures, including compliance activities, exception handling, and escalation management.
• Serve as a key decision-making authority across EA domains.
• Advise delivery teams on critical architectural decisions and areas of significant impact.

Required Skills & Competencies

• Deep understanding of how architecture domains integrate to form a cohesive enterprise architecture.
• Strong strategic planning capabilities with a consulting mindset, including expertise in architecture modeling and technology forecasting.
• Design-thinking mindset, able to translate ideas into holistic enterprise views that bridge business intention and execution.
• Advanced analytical skills including pattern recognition, abstraction, logical reasoning, and systems-level thinking.
• Soft skills that support influence and change, including negotiation, persuasion, conflict resolution, and relationship-building.
• Broad knowledge of business principles, organizational dynamics, change management techniques, and economic and technology trends.
• Proven leadership capability with the ability to teach, mentor, manage complexity, and navigate organizational politics effectively.

Key Deliverables

• Enterprise target reference architectures, architectural patterns, capabilities, guiding principles, and standards across all EA domains.
• Architecture focus areas and target capabilities.
• Comprehensive enterprise architecture roadmap.

Our benefits package includes:

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay
• 401(k) retirement plan
• ...and much more

About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.

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