Enterprise Architect (954) at ABC Supply – NSC1 Beloit | Jobyssey

ABC Supply is North America’s largest wholesale distributor of exterior and interior building products.

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Role Summary:

The Enterprise Architect (EA) translates enterprise strategy into cohesive, scalable, and secure architectural guardrails and patterns. EAs steward target architecture components, principles, and standards within their domains; build reusable assets (reference architectures, starter kits, decision templates); and coach Solution Architects, Business Architects, and engineering teams to accelerate flow and reduce risk and technical debt. Governance is delivered through enablement and automation—favoring exception-only ARB reviews. EAs operate in a product-centric, flow-based environment where Solution Architects are embedded by portfolio and typically support value streams each; EA assets must be consumable at portfolio scale.

Team Context:

Team size: 1 Principal Enterprise Architect, 4 Enterprise Architects, 5 Solution Architects, 1 Business Architect
Operating model: Value stream–aligned delivery with federated architecture, lean ARB, and governance-by-enablement.
Portfolio alignment: Solution Architects are embedded with portfolios and apply EA assets across value streams per portfolio.
Partner with Business Architects to align business roadmaps with technology modernization and investment sequencing

Mission & Objectives:

Define and evolve minimal viable standards and guardrails that enable autonomous delivery at portfolio scale;
Author domain reference architectures and reusable patterns; keep catalogs current and mapped to portfolio needs;
Embed architectural enablement within value streams through coaching and self-service tooling for Solution Architects;
Make technical debt visible and actionable; drive remediation plans with product/platform teams;
Ensure non-functional requirements (security, reliability, scalability, performance, operability) are met consistently.

Core Responsibilities:

1) Target Architecture & Standards — Define, Enable, Scale

Document current and future-state architectures; publish capability/platform heatmaps; Maintain principles (cloud-first, API-first/composable, event-driven, zero-trust) and minimal viable standards; Author and maintain reference architectures and pattern catalogs (integration, data, identity, security); Evolve standards pragmatically from pilot outcomes and risk posture; avoid dogmatic frameworks.

2) Governance-by-Enablement — Automate, Coach, Measure

Contribute to ARB; prioritize automation (policy-as-code, CI/CD checks, registries) over manual approvals; Prepare decision records (ADRs) and publish outcomes; design exception paths for novel/high-risk changes; Measure adherence via automated checks; reduce exception load through enablement assets.

3) Solution Architecture Enablement — Support, Guide, Accelerate

Partner with Solution Architects and engineering leads to design fit-for-purpose solutions aligned to enterprise patterns; Provide integration templates, data-flow models, performance/scalability guidance, and security-by-design patterns; Offer embedded coaching; prefer guardrails and self-service over gatekeeping.

4) Portfolio & Roadmaps — Connect Architecture to Strategy

Contribute architectural input to the rolling 3-year enterprise roadmap and quarterly plans; Identify modernization/migration paths; quantify architectural risk and technical debt to inform prioritization; Link architectural decisions to business value metrics and outcomes.

5) Security, Data, and Infrastructure Alignment — Harmonize Domains

Collaborate with Security, Data, and Infrastructure architects to harmonize domain standards with enterprise guardrails; Ensure solutions meet regulatory/compliance needs (e.g., PCI DSS, privacy); Publish cross-domain patterns (identity, data governance, observability, resilience) and migration guides.

Interfaces & Exclusions:

Partners with Solution Architects, Business Architects, Product Managers, Engineering leaders, and domain architects;
Interfaces with Finance, Legal/Procurement, and Vendor Management for ROI/risk alignment;
Explicit exclusions: does not own vendor management, detailed financial analysis/budgeting, or contract negotiation.

Key Outcomes & KPIs (Aligned to IT Strategy):

Automated standards adherence coverage and exception rate;
Technical-debt reduction (burn-down trends; architectural health scores);
Adoption/reuse of enablement assets (starter kits, reference architectures, templates) across portfolios;
Time-to-market for compliant solutions and change lead time (portfolio view);
NFR health (security findings, availability, performance) and incident reduction.
Support portfolio targets for Delivery Predictability (≥ 85%) and Business Area Satisfaction (≥ 4.5/5.0).

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field—or equivalent experience;
8–12 years across solution and/or enterprise architecture, application/platform engineering, or technology strategy;
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, containers, eventing/queues, and integration patterns;
Expertise in secure architecture and compliance-aware design (e.g., PCI DSS); change management experience;
Familiarity with EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) applied pragmatically—not dogmatically; strong documentation skills (ADRs, reference models);
Comfortable with Agile and Waterfall; excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Core Competencies:

Systems thinking and business acumen;

Enablement-first leadership; consultative influence;
Architectural storytelling; decision transparency;
Lean governance and automation mindset (policy-as-code, CI/CD);
Outcome focus and disciplined innovation.

Leadership Characteristics:

Trusted, pragmatic, and vendor-neutral;
Future-focused and adaptable; comfortable shifting between strategic guidance and in-the-weeds collaboration;
Obsessed with clarity, flow, and continuous improvement.

Benefits may include:

Health, dental, and vision coverage - eligible after 60 days, low out of pocket
401(k) with generous company match - eligible after 60 days, immediately vested
Employer paid employee assistance program
Employer paid short term and long-term disability
Employer paid life insurance
Flex spending
Paid vacation
Paid sick days
Paid holidays

Equal Opportunity Employer / Drug Free Workplace

ABC Supply values diversity and we actively encourage women, minorities, and veterans to apply.

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