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SUMMARY: The Director of Enterprise Architecture proactively and holistically helps guide the enterprise through technology transformation and optimization initiatives. The Director focuses on understanding and applying existing, new and emerging technologies to transform and optimize business and operating models. The Director of Enterprise Architecture's focus is to help the organization plan, design, innovate, orchestrate, facilitate, navigate and operationalize the digital enterprise. The Director of Enterprise Architecture is a leadership role that oversees the formal EA (enterprise architecture) practice, managing a team of domain architects (business, data, solution, technology, security and other) in a direct capacity. The Director of Enterprise Architecture is responsible for helping business leaders enable their future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive the organization's targeted business outcomes through the choice of initiatives the organization chooses to invest in. The Director of Enterprise Architecture helps business leaders understand, monetize and operationalize existing, new and emerging technologies. The Director builds and motivates the EA team -- empowering domain architects -- with coaching and mentoring to build a creative and safe learning environment.
The Director of Enterprise Architecture is responsible for leading and managing the EA practice. This includes the organizational design, management and day-to-day running of the EA practice as an internal management consultancy that offers a portfolio of services to business leaders and enterprise stakeholders. The Director is responsible for defining the advisory process, EA process, and architecture review and governance, and for leading the integration of those processes with related business and IT functions and processes. The CEA leads and coordinates all aspects of the EA practice, including: o Business Architecture: Focused on assisting in the definition and evolution of enterprise business capabilities, their associated processes, and corresponding organizational change o Data Architecture: Focused on the definition of the enterprise information target state in order to enable analytics self-service in addition to other enterprise data needs and helping define data governance and management best practices. o Solutions Architecture: Focused on developing a direction for managing the portfolio of to-be solutions and their high-level design in accordance with best practices and patterns o Technology Architecture: Focused on evolving the target state of technical capabilities used to enable business capabilities and critical infrastructure and helping define technology best practices o Security Architecture: Focused on managing IT risk through the exchange of information between people, systems and things inside and outside the organization and helping define security capabilities and corresponding best practices.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties and special projects may be assigned.
Management of the EA Practice:
- Leads the development and execution of a communication and education plan for the enterprise architecture practice
- Promotes the business value of EA as an enabler of strategy formulation, and as support for technology innovation
- Leads the creation and maturing of the enterprise architecture practice into an internal management consultancy
- Plans and manages a talent pool of domain architects that works with EA and non-EA related disciplines to deliver the goals, objectives and outcomes of the organization.
Strategy Formulation:
- Facilitates business and IT alignment through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner
- Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise's business strategy, direction and architecture
- Provides perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate
Foster Innovation:
- Assesses disruptive forces impacting the organization and identifies technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enables business strategy
- Stays abreast of major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business
- Relationship Management
- Provides consultative advice to business leaders and organizational stakeholders
- Recruits and develops the skills and competencies of the EA team
- Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise.
Delivery of Business Outcomes:
- Works with business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context
- Ensures EA is providing the services, skills and competencies needed to support the business strategy
- Builds a skills inventory and designs a plan to close the skills gap for the Architecture domains
- Identifies critical skills, competencies and career paths for EA team members and identifies training to help them develop and progress in their careers
Portfolio Management:
- Develops and applies standards and minimal viable architectures through the EA governance model
- Facilitates a collaborative relationship across product owners, product teams, and technology delivery teams
- Collaborates with product teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market
- Collaborates with infrastructure and project teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture
- Oversees EA implementation, continuous improvement and ongoing refinement activities.
- Oversees the documentation of all architecture design and analysis work
- Adheres to and complies with applicable, federal and state laws, regulations and guidance, including those related to anti-money laundering (i.e. Bank Secrecy Act, US PATRIOT Act, etc.).
- Adheres to Bank policies and procedures and completes required training.
- Identifies and reports suspicious activity.
EDUCATION
College degree or equivalent management/work experience (At least 10 years), which includes practical experience in Information Technology and IT Security Minimum 4 years' experience with cloud-based enterprise infrastructure architecture and/or operations required
EXPERIENCE
- Knowledge of business ecosystems, software as a Service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven systems, and modern patterns of advanced analytics including Data Lake, ML, AI, and others
- Familiarity with information management practices, master data management, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks
- Well versed in formal Enterprise Architecture frameworks like TOGAF and with architecture modeling languages like Archimate; certification preferred
- Experience managing an Enterprise Architecture repository based on software like Sparx EA, Orbus, or BiZZDesign
- Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
- Strong leadership and coaching skills
- Excellent analytical and technical skills
- Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management
- Understanding of the different types of agile principles, methodologies and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level like SAFe
- Understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments
- Balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals
- Translate business needs into EA requirements
- Rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
- Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization's digital business strategies
- Understand and speak the language of the business
- Ability to stay composed in the face of opposition to architectural principles, governance and standards
- Practical in approach to problem solving and decision making
- Ability to work independently
- Self-motivated
- Strong customer service skills
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
- CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional preferred
- Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) preferred
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BankUnited
Jul 11, 2025