Enterprise Architecture Review Board (ARB)

Job Title: Enterprise Architecture Review Board (ARB) Lead

Location: Houston, TX, US (Onsite)

Duration: 12 Months

Position Overview:

The Enterprise Architecture Review Board (EARB) Lead is responsible for facilitating enterprise architecture governance and ensuring technology initiatives align with the organization’s enterprise architecture standards, strategic objectives, security requirements, and technology roadmap. This individual partners with business stakeholders, enterprise architects, solution architects, cybersecurity teams, and technology leaders to evaluate proposed solutions, identify architectural risks, and ensure consistency across the enterprise.

Responsibilities:

·        Lead and facilitate Enterprise Architecture Review Board (EARB) meetings, including reviewing proposed technology solutions and architecture designs.

·        Evaluate architecture submissions for alignment with enterprise standards, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, and business objectives.

·        Review solution designs across cloud, infrastructure, applications, data, integration, and cybersecurity domains.

·        Identify architectural risks, technology gaps, dependencies, redundancies, and opportunities for standardization.

·        Collaborate with enterprise architects, solution architects, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to resolve design issues and recommend solutions.

·        Ensure proposed solutions comply with cybersecurity, regulatory, data governance, and technology standards.

·        Establish and maintain architecture review processes, governance frameworks, decision logs, and documentation.

·        Provide recommendations and guidance to project teams throughout the solution design and implementation lifecycle.

·        Track architecture review outcomes, exceptions, remediation actions, and approval decisions.

·        Communicate architectural recommendations and risks to senior IT leadership and executive stakeholders.

·        Facilitate EARB meetings and document architecture decisions; produce architecture review assessments and recommendations.

·        Maintain architecture standards, governance documentation, exception tracking, and risk and remediation action logs.

·        Report on architecture compliance, review outcomes, and outstanding decisions. Qualifications:

·        7+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, IT governance, or technology design.

·        Experience facilitating architecture review boards or enterprise architecture governance processes.

·        Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, reference architectures, and technology standards.

·        Knowledge of cloud platforms, infrastructure, application architecture, data platforms, integration technologies, and cybersecurity principles.

·        Experience evaluating complex technology solutions and communicating architectural risks and trade-offs.

·        Strong stakeholder management, presentation, documentation, and facilitation skills.

·        Ability to work across business and technical teams to drive alignment and consistent architecture decisions. Preferred Qualifications:

·        Experience with TOGAF, Zachman, or other enterprise architecture frameworks.

·        TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture credentials.

·        Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud architecture.

·        Familiarity with architecture governance tools, standards repositories, and enterprise technology roadmaps.

·        Experience in large, complex enterprise environments. Tools and Technologies:

·        Enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman.

·        Cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.

·        Architecture governance tools, standards repositories, and enterprise technology roadmaps