Enterprise Architect

About the Role Enterprise Architect (EA) at Cepheid defines, governs, and evolves the enterprise-wide technology architecture to enable business strategy, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance. This role provides architecture leadership across applications, data, integration, cloud, and AI platforms, ensuring coherent, future-proof decisions across the enterprise. The EA acts as a strategic advisor to business and IT leaders, partners with Solution and Platform Architects, and is a key decision maker in architecture governance forums. This position reports to the Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) Leader and is based on-site in Sunnyvale, CA. What You'll Do

• EA Strategy & Value Realization: Develops the EA charter and services, promoting the value proposition and tracking outcome-driven metrics aligned with enterprise goals and CIO priorities.
• Portfolio Optimization & Rationalization: Leads current-state analysis to detect gaps, recommend investments, and rationalize the technology portfolio using models like TIME to reduce technical debt.
• Standards & Delivery Alignment: Defines enterprise architecture principles and target-state roadmaps across key domains (Cloud, AI, Data, Security) while collaborating with delivery teams to ensure reuse and speed to market.
• Governance & Guardrails: Leads architecture governance and design reviews for major initiatives, ensuring scalability and compliance with security, privacy, and AI agent lifecycle decision boundaries.
• Strategic Partnership & Advisory: Partners with business and IT leaders to shape technology demand, guide build-vs-buy decisions, and communicate architectural trade-offs regarding cost, risk, and complexity. What We're Looking For
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architect role.
• Ability to balance the long-term and short-term implications of individual decisions and organizational goals.
• Ability to influence without authority and communicate effectively with executive, business, and technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, such as generative AI and its applications.
• Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements: Ability to travel 10% of the time globally Nice to Have
• Enterprise architecture frameworks and modeling (TOGAF, ArchiMate, UML, capability and process modeling).
• Designing systems with security, privacy, and compliance in mind includes identity and access management, encryption, secure architecture, and operating within regulated environments.
• Experience in EA tools like SAP LeanIX Compensation & Benefits
• The annual salary range is $190,000 - $220,000 USD. This role is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.
• Cepheid offers a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: Cepheid, a Danaher operating company, is committed to equal opportunity and compliance with applicable laws. See Danaher Benefits Info for details.