Enterprise Architect ESM

CLIENT PROFILE: Global enterprise technology leader driving innovation, operational excellence, and digital transformation across complex international business environments.

Work Setup: Onsite

Work Location: Makati City

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to define, evolve, and govern the enterprise architecture strategy across a global organization. This role is pivotal in aligning business objectives with scalable, secure, and future-ready technology solutions. You will shape the technology landscape, drive architectural consistency, and enable innovation, efficiency, and transformation at scale.

Key Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Architecture Strategy

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture strategy, roadmap, principles, and standards.
• Ensure architecture alignment with business strategy and enterprise goals.
• Identify opportunities for innovation, simplification, and architectural improvement.
• Guide long-term technology direction and target-state architecture.

2. Solution Architecture & Assessment

• Partner with business and IT stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable architectural solutions.
• Develop high-level designs, solution blueprints, and architecture models for complex initiatives.
• Review and validate solution designs for compliance with architecture standards.
• Conduct impact assessments for technology and change initiatives across the enterprise.

3. Technology Strategy & Innovation

• Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations for adoption.
• Contribute to enterprise technology roadmaps in collaboration with IT leadership.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends to inform strategic architecture decisions.
• Drive modernization, simplification, and platform standardization.

4. Governance & Compliance

• Establish and enforce enterprise architecture governance frameworks and processes.
• Lead Architecture Review Board (ARB) processes and continuous improvement.
• Maintain core architecture artefacts including:
  • Technical Reference Model
  • Business Capability Model
  • Architecture Principles
  • Design standards and templates
• Ensure compliance with architecture standards across projects and systems.

5. Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business and IT leaders.
• Facilitate alignment between business needs and technology strategy.
• Communicate architecture decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations to executive stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships across global business and technology teams.

6. Architecture Documentation & Standards

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture documentation, models, and diagrams.
• Ensure architecture artefacts remain current, accessible, and fit for purpose.
• Clearly document architectural decisions, assumptions, and trade-offs.

7. Performance, Optimization & Transformation

• Identify opportunities to reduce complexity, eliminate redundancy, and optimize technology investments.
• Support enterprise transformation initiatives across large-scale, complex environments.
• Drive continuous improvement in architecture maturity and operational efficiency.

Key Performance Indicators

Quantitative

• Reduction in exceptions to architecture standards across projects and systems.

Qualitative

• Strength and effectiveness of enterprise architecture governance and strategy.
• Reduction in technology redundancy and architectural complexity.
• Quality of technology investment decisions and optimization outcomes.
• Contribution to innovation and strategic technology advancement.

Stakeholder Relationships

Internal:

• Executive and business leaders
• IT leadership and enterprise teams
• Project managers, solution architects, and delivery teams

External:

• Technology vendors and strategic partners
• Industry forums and professional networks

Qualifications

• Degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• TOGAF or Zachman certification highly desirable
• Additional certifications advantageous:
  • Cloud (AWS / Azure Architect)
  • Security (CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CRISC)
  • Project Management (PMP / PRINCE2)

Experience

• 15+ years in IT roles spanning strategy, architecture, engineering, delivery, or operations
• 7–8+ years in Enterprise Architecture within complex enterprise or consulting environments
• Experience across application, data, or infrastructure architecture domains
• Proven track record establishing enterprise architecture governance aligned with frameworks (e.g., COBIT)
• Strong experience in cyber security risk management (ISO 27001, NIST, COBIT)
• Demonstrated success influencing senior/C-level stakeholders and leading cross-functional teams
• Experience defining enterprise architecture strategy, roadmaps, and reference architectures
• Exposure to manufacturing or engineering environments and operational technology architecture is an advantage