Strategic Architecture Analyst

Role : Strategic Architecture Analyst

Location: Iselin, NJ

Duration: 12 Months

MOI : Telephonic & Skype

Primary Skills: POWER BI, TABLEAU or Excel, and/or modern visualization platforms, APM tools (LeanIX preferred), and governance frameworks.

Need Candidates with a Minimum of 10 Years of Experience. This is 100% Onsite role. Locals or within the Tristate willing to relocate from Day 1.

LEANIX AND APM TOOLS ARE A MUST.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a Strategic Architecture Analyst to support enterprise-wide governance around architecture. This role blends architectural thinking, business analysis, and data storytelling to drive actionable insights from our application portfolio. You will partner across business, IT, and architecture teams to develop charts, frameworks, and executive-ready analysis that inform strategic decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with stakeholders to enrich application data in professional tax, assurance, and advisory fields, leveraging a strong background in IT technologies, including multi-cloud platforms and systems thinking.
• Capture inventory regularly by partnering with ETO, accelerate the intake process, and help leadership position Architecture as the leading voice.
• Build visualizations (heatmaps, quadrant charts, map to maturity ladders) to support TIME classification, cost modeling, and strategic fit.
• Translate raw data (from Excel templates) into clear, compelling insights using Power BI, Tableau, Excel, and LeanIX (preferred).
• Clean, simplify, and enhance the LeanIX data model using lifecycle metadata, relationship mappings, and business criticality tags from the data dump
• Capture templates to capture business capability mapping for the LeanIX record that is transferred from ETO.
• Engage with IT partners on Metadata model components around sourcing, data components, and build API interfaces or templates to capture data.
• Managing the completeness of data by ensuring respective data owners are held accountable. Build workflows, reminders, and audit reports that can be distributed.
• Support completeness scoring, rule-based mapping, and maturity modeling.
• Build short-term data storage options and develop automation to produce dashboards, and for the long term, develop iterations to modify LeanIX factsheets.
• Co-develop messaging toolkits, stakeholder engagement maps, and activation frameworks.
• Validate data accuracy and ensure outputs are defensible and decision-ready.
• Map Outsourcing applications and Enterprise technologies to business capabilities
• Partner with ETI and Outsourcing to capture LeanIX data and aid in building future state roadmap, Outsourcing, RESIG, and Enterprise Technologies.
• Validate data accuracy and ensure outputs are defensible and decision-ready.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 5 years experience in the Architecture space as an Architecture Analyst, Solution Architect, aspiring to become an Enterprise Architect.
• Proficiency in leveraging visual tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Excel, and/or modern visualization platforms, with a preference for LeanIX dashboard management.
• Experience with APM tools (LeanIX preferred) and governance frameworks.
• Strong communication and synthesis skills.
• Comfort with iterative analysis and rule-based mapping.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with TIME classification, capability mapping, and cost-to-value modeling.
• Experience supporting governance transformation or architecture activation.
• Exposure to completeness scoring and maturity ladders.
• Ability to build stakeholder-ready deliverables with executive polish.