Director Enterprise Architecture
Location- El Segundo, CA with 10 % travel- remote can be an option for the right candidate with flexibility to come occasionally to client office
W2 role
The Director of Enterprise Architecture is a strategic leader responsible for defining, governing, and advancing the organization's technology landscape. This role oversees both the Enterprise Architecture Team and the Enterprise Integrations Team, ensuring that architectural frameworks support business strategy and IT capabilities. This leader will provide visionary leadership to drive a cohesive and optimized enterprise architecture, solution architecture, and domain architecture
This leader will have excellent domain experience in these areas, as well as a proven success record of delivering business value and organizational transformation in a matrixed IT environment with reliance on offshore delivery partners and global teams. They will bring a wealth of experience in developing and delivering modern technology solutions, excellent vendor management skills, and have a proven track record of modernizing and transforming technology capabilities aligned to business process transformation. Experience leading enterprise architecture in the consumer product goods (CPG) industry is highly preferred.
This position will be a key member of the Global Technology Organization’s leadership team. This leader is a key contributor to the development and execution of the enterprise-wide IT strategy, while maintaining its alignment with the enterprise's business strategy and the delivery of capabilities required to achieve business success.
This position will be located in El Segundo, CA. 10% travel is expected.
Domain Experience
- This is a cross-functional Enterprise Architecture role ideal candidate must have experience in multiple domains.
- Experience implementing practices in multiple domains and in-depth expertise in more than one. Product Life Cycle Management, Quality, E-commerce, B2B, ERP, Logistics, Finance.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, IT strategy, or solution architecture, preferably in the CPG industry.
- Expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.).
- Strong background in integration technologies, APIs, microservices, and cloud-based architectures.
- Experience in leading and managing change within the organization, driving technology-enabled business transformations is required.
- Proven track record leading ERP transformations, preferably in the global consumer product goods (CPG) industry using Oracle Cloud.
- Possesses a positive and proactive leadership style, with a strong executive presence.
- Proven ability to lead outstanding teams, manage complex IT ecosystems, and drive transformation.
Key Competencies
- Strategic thinker with strong leadership and execution capabilities.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken.
- Ability to balance deep technical expertise with a strong business acumen.
- Analytical mindset with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture and solution architecture concepts and best practices
- Knowledge of enterprise integration concepts and best practice preferred
- Ability to abstract complex business and technical concepts and summarize them for various stakeholder groups, including the ability to explain digital concepts and technologies to business leaders as well as business concepts to technologists; the ability to sell ideas and process internally at all levels.
- Ability to work well with all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to drive organizational change, both within your teams and as a trusted advisor to business partners during transformative systems change.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute a strategic people plan that ensures that the right people are in the right roles at the right time and that employees are highly engaged and satisfied.
- Good time management and organizational skills - ability to manage multiple tasks and assignments concurrently.
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