Enterprise Architecture Analyst

Role Overview

We are seeking a practical, business-minded Enterprise Architecture professional who can operate at the intersection of business needs, IT delivery, systems, infrastructure, security, and enterprise applications.

This is not a highly specialized or ivory-tower architecture role. The right person will be a flexible, hands-on individual contributor who is comfortable wearing multiple hats, asking good questions, documenting current and future state, building clear diagrams, and helping business and technology teams make better decisions.

This person will support enterprise architecture efforts by helping stakeholders understand how systems, processes, vendors, integrations, and business requirements fit together. The role requires enough technical understanding to work with IT teams and enough business awareness to understand why the work matters.

The ideal candidate is someone who enjoys being a bridge between business and technology, can bring structure to ambiguous situations, and is comfortable operating in an environment where priorities, processes, and stakeholders may shift quickly.

What You’ll Be Doing

Business and Technology Alignment

• Partner with business and IT stakeholders to understand business needs, technology requests, processes, and system impacts.
• Translate business objectives into clear architecture documentation, diagrams, process flows, and decision-support materials.
• Help teams understand the “why” behind technology decisions, not just the technical implementation.
• Facilitate conversations between business users, technical teams, security, infrastructure, application teams, and leadership.
• Ask thoughtful questions early in the process to uncover risks, gaps, dependencies, or missed requirements.

Architecture Documentation and Diagrams

• Create and maintain current-state and future-state architecture diagrams.
• Document systems, integrations, data flows, ownership, dependencies, and key process impacts.
• Build clear, practical artifacts that help stakeholders make decisions.
• Maintain architecture repositories, reference libraries, and documentation in tools such as LeanIX, Lucidchart, or similar platforms.
• Support architecture reviews by preparing materials, documenting decisions, tracking follow-ups, and keeping records organized.

Solution and Vendor Evaluation

• Support vendor, application, and technology evaluations by capturing requirements, mapping processes, and identifying potential risks.
• Help determine whether proposed solutions align with enterprise standards, security expectations, infrastructure needs, and business objectives.
• Identify potential issues related to integrations, identity/access, data flows, cloud/SaaS/on-prem environments, disaster recovery, compliance, and operational support.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure solution proposals are complete enough for architecture, security, infrastructure, and business review.

Governance and Review Support

• Participate in architecture review boards, design discussions, and cross-functional working sessions.
• Help ensure teams have the right documentation and information before advancing technology decisions.
• Support continuous improvement of architecture templates, intake processes, governance workflows, and documentation standards.
• Track open questions, risks, decisions, and next steps from architecture-related meetings.
• Help bring practical structure to projects without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.

Enterprise IT Awareness

• Work across multiple architecture domains, including applications, infrastructure, security, cloud, data, integrations, and business process.
• Understand the differences between SaaS, cloud-hosted, on-premises, and hybrid technology environments.
• Help map how systems connect, where data flows, who owns key systems, and what dependencies exist.
• Partner with domain experts when deeper technical expertise is required.
• Identify opportunities for reuse, consolidation, simplification, or improved alignment across the technology portfolio.

What Makes Someone Successful in This Role

The right candidate will be:

• Comfortable operating as an individual contributor.
• Willing to jump in, figure things out, and take ownership.
• Strong at communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to ask the “basic” or uncomfortable question that prevents future problems.
• Flexible enough to work in an environment where the architecture function is still maturing.
• Comfortable with “good enough” progress when perfection is not realistic.
• Practical, organized, and documentation-oriented.
• Collaborative and low-ego.
• Interested in solving problems more than owning a title.
• Able to work in a flat team structure where everyone helps where needed.

Ideal Background

We are open to a variety of backgrounds. The ideal candidate may come from roles such as:

• Technical Business Analyst
• Systems Analyst
• Solutions Analyst
• IT Business Analyst
• Technical Project Manager
• Business Systems Analyst
• Solutions Consultant
• Application Analyst
• Associate Enterprise Architect
• Junior Solutions Architect
• Technology Analyst
• IT Project Manager with strong technical exposure

Prior architecture title is helpful but not required. What matters most is the ability to understand business needs, communicate with technical teams, document systems and processes, and identify risks across technology initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in enterprise IT, architecture analysis, business systems analysis, technical project delivery, solutions analysis, or a related role.
• Strong understanding of how IT systems, applications, infrastructure, integrations, and business processes work together.
• Ability to create clear diagrams, workflows, process maps, current-state views, and future-state documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to facilitate working sessions and capture requirements, decisions, risks, and action items.
• Working knowledge of cloud, SaaS, on-premises systems, integrations, data flows, and enterprise applications.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to operate with moderate independence while knowing when to escalate or ask for help.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with architecture repositories or diagramming tools such as LeanIX, Lucidchart, Visio, Miro, or similar.
• Exposure to enterprise architecture, solution architecture, architecture review boards, or technology governance.
• Experience supporting vendor evaluations, system implementations, application rationalization, or integration projects.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure or AWS.
• Experience in healthcare IT, enterprise healthcare operations, or regulated environments.
• Knowledge of security, identity/access, disaster recovery, business continuity, compliance, or data privacy considerations.
• Experience with Agile, Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar project delivery tools.
• TOGAF or architecture-related certification is a plus, but not required.

What This Role Is Not

This is not a role for someone who only wants to operate at a high-level strategic architecture layer.

This is also not a deeply specialized domain architect role focused only on cloud, security, infrastructure, data, or applications.

This role is best suited for someone who enjoys being a practical “jack of all trades” across business and IT, with enough technical knowledge to understand system impacts and enough business awareness to help teams make better decisions.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The best fit is likely a mid-level professional with strong IT exposure who has been close to projects, systems, business processes, and solution delivery.

They may not have had the title “Enterprise Architect,” but they have likely been the person others rely on to:

• Understand what the business is trying to accomplish.
• Translate that into technical or process requirements.
• Build diagrams and documentation.
• Coordinate across technical teams.
• Identify gaps before they become expensive problems.
• Help stakeholders make informed decisions.

This person should be looking for a long-term opportunity where they can grow into architecture while contributing immediately as a hands-on, cross-functional business and technology partner.

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