Enterprise Architect - Corporate Technology

Description

• The Enterprise Architect provides architecture direction and accountability across the full Corporate Technology organization, spanning Global Finance Tech, Legal Tech, and People, Purpose & Brand Tech. The role owns the space between these domains, establishing cross-domain reference architectures and reusable patterns for shared capabilities such as identity, entitlements, and segregation of duties; document, contract, and records management; workflow and approval orchestration; reporting, evidencing, and audit trail; and AI deployment patterns. The role ensures that portfolio decisions converge on consistent, reusable solutions rather than solving the same need three times.

• This architect reports to the Senior Director, Architecture and represents Corporate Technology with hands-on depth in Enterprise Architecture initiatives and focus groups, including AI, data, and threat and security. Working within Corporate Technology's SaaS-dense, buy-first ecosystem, the role shapes enterprise standards rather than simply receiving them, connects enterprise initiatives to Corporate Technology initiatives and back again, and resolves cross-domain concerns before they escalate.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide architecture direction and accountability for Corporate Technology's cross-domain, cross-functional architecture, establishing technology strategies and roadmaps across Global Finance Tech, Legal Tech, and People, Purpose & Brand Tech aligned to the enterprise well-architected vision.

• Drive and support Enterprise Architecture initiatives and focus groups on behalf of Corporate Technology, including AI, data, and threat and security, with the depth to shape enterprise standards rather than receive them.

• Connect enterprise initiatives to Corporate Technology initiatives and back again, leading cross-domain strategy and change efforts so feedback flows both ways and consistency is achieved by design rather than by exception.

• Ensure consistent architecture and engineering discipline across the three domains, reviewing major designs for consistency, maintainability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, and providing recommendations on product, platform, and high-level solution architecture.

• Own cross-domain reference architectures and reusable patterns for shared capabilities, including identity, entitlements, and segregation of duties; document, contract, and records management; workflow and approval orchestration; and reporting, evidencing, and audit trail, prototyping complex cross-platform solutions where needed to validate direction.

• Connect business and solution architecture with emerging technologies, establishing AI architecture and control patterns for Corporate Technology deployments, including retrieval over sensitive content, human oversight, logging, evidencing, and legal, privacy, and security requirements.

• Implement and enforce the Enterprise Architecture governance framework for Corporate Technology, facilitating decision-making and prioritization forums, architecture decision records, and variance tracking with expiry and review dates.

• Lead adoption of enterprise playbook components across the three domains, including event-driven architecture, observability, zero trust, and data privacy, to increase sharing and reuse, and report on compliance.

• Maintain a cross-domain capability and platform inventory and assess effort and value for cross-domain priorities; guide and prioritize the architecture backlog and provide executive-level consultation on planning, rationalization, and investment decisions with capability owners and Finance.

• Build and mentor the architecture community of practice within Corporate Technology, developing portfolio and solution architects, and maintain strategic partnerships with business stakeholders, vendors, and technology teams.

Required Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated success leading architecture across multiple technology domains, portfolios, or business-aligned technology organizations, including leading large-scale strategy or change initiatives.

• Deep knowledge of SaaS-centric, buy-first architecture, including configuration-led platforms, vendor integration patterns, identity and access, security, resiliency, and operational practices.

• Strong working knowledge of enterprise AI architecture and controls, including retrieval over sensitive content, human-in-the-loop oversight, logging, evidencing, data privacy, and governance.

• Ability to translate business and enterprise strategy into cross-domain target architectures, sequenced roadmaps, investment priorities, and actionable engineering direction.

• Proven judgment balancing speed, innovation, cost, risk, security, compliance, and long-term sustainability, including recognizing when enterprise standards need adaptation versus a time-bound variance.

• Experience influencing senior technology and business leaders, architects, product leaders, and engineering teams across organizational boundaries without relying solely on direct authority.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including architecture decision records, reference architectures, strategy documents, executive presentations, and technical facilitation.

• Ability to simplify complex systems, identify the few decisions that matter most, and move groups from competing perspectives to an aligned direction.

• Experience developing reusable enterprise patterns while allowing appropriate domain autonomy and incremental adoption.

Qualifications

• Architecture experience with enterprise SaaS platforms common to corporate functions, such as human capital management, enterprise resource planning, service management, contract lifecycle management, e-billing, and e-discovery.

• Experience with identity governance, entitlements, and segregation-of-duties enforcement; document, records, and retention management, including legal hold; and workflow and approval orchestration.

• Experience designing production AI governance, guardrails, auditability, and human-in-the-loop operating models for sensitive financial, legal, and employee data.

• Experience leading capability and application rationalization, including building business cases with finance partners and capability owners.

• Demonstrated participation in enterprise architecture, AI, data, threat and security, or technology governance forums and focus groups.

Leadership Capabilities

• Enterprise thinking: optimizes for Liberty-wide outcomes and understands the organizational, financial, and operational consequences of architecture decisions.

• Strategic clarity: creates a compelling target state while defining practical intermediate steps that teams can execute.

• Collaborative influence: brings deep expertise without ego, actively considers diverse viewpoints, and builds durable alignment.

• Decisiveness: makes informed decisions at the appropriate time, resolves cross-domain disagreements at the architect level, and avoids allowing analysis or governance to become unnecessary delay.

• Talent multiplication: delegates effectively, develops portfolio and solution architects, and builds a scalable architecture community of practice.

• Accountability: remains engaged through delivery and verifies that architecture direction, standards adoption, and variances produce measurable outcomes.

What Success Looks Like

• Corporate Technology operates from a clearly understood cross-domain target architecture and reference patterns for the capabilities shared across Global Finance Tech, Legal Tech, and People, Purpose & Brand Tech.

• Corporate Technology is consistently represented with technical depth in Enterprise Architecture initiatives and focus groups, and enterprise standards reflect the realities of a SaaS-dense, buy-first ecosystem.

• Shared capabilities are solved once and reused, reducing duplicated integrations, control designs, vendor relationships, and audit conversations.

• Variances are documented with expiry and review dates, enterprise playbook conformance is reported, and architecture direction is visible in funded priorities and delivery outcomes.

• Cross-domain decisions are resolved at the architect level without routine escalation to the Senior Director, and portfolio and solution architects operate with greater independence because patterns, boundaries, and decision rights are clear.

Additional Information

This role requires collaboration across organizational boundaries and may include periodic travel for planning, architecture, and stakeholder working sessions. The successful candidate will operate in a dynamic environment where priorities evolve as enterprise strategy, technology capabilities, and customer needs change.

Travel

10%