How will this role impact First Command?
This role supports the execution of First Command’s enterprise architecture strategy by collaborating across business and technology teams to model current and future states, provide insights, and ensure alignment between initiatives, non-initiatives, and strategic goals. The ideal candidate understands both enterprise and business architecture frameworks and applies them pragmatically to support decision-making, governance, and change management.
The Enterprise Architect partners with senior leadership to ensure IT investments and initiatives align with strategic objectives. Success in this role requires a strong grasp of architecture principles and governance, applied in a practical way to serve the organization and its stakeholders.
This role supports both initiative-driven efforts and continuous advisory services by leveraging architecture insights, capability maps, and LeanIX data. It works closely with Business Architecture to ensure that business motivations, operations, and strategic priorities are reflected in technology decisions and architectural models.
The Enterprise Architect also collaborates with stakeholders to define capabilities, value streams, and business models that inform technology and process decisions.
What will the employee do in this role?
- Ensure traceability from strategic objectives to initiatives, capabilities, and technology investments.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to capture capability maps, identify pain points, applications, and initiative impacts.
- Maintain and evolve architecture artifacts in LeanIX, ensuring accuracy and usability.
- Map and analyze business processes to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and identify improvement opportunities.
- Support initiative intake and prioritization by providing architectural insights and impact assessments.
- Participate in governance forums and conduct architecture reviews for projects and changes.
- Identify opportunities for simplification, modernization, and reuse across systems and processes.
- Define and maintain current, interim, and target states for architecture domains.
- Facilitate workshops to capture business processes, capability maturity, and strategic priorities.
- Promote awareness of architecture principles and practices across teams.
- Lead initiatives to modernize legacy systems and integrate new technologies seamlessly.
- Translate strategic themes into capability-based roadmaps and architectural targets.
- Collaborate with business units to describe customer-facing, supplier-related, execution, and management functions.
What skills and qualifications do you need?
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
Work Experience
- 5+ years in IT or architecture-related roles.
- Experience with EA tools (LeanIX preferred) and frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.).
- Experience visualizing and modeling high-level business structures and processes.
- Familiarity with business capability modeling, application portfolio management, and technology lifecycle.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Strong analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to apply architectural principles across both business and technology domains.
- Skilled in translating business strategy into architecture views and capability models.
- Deep understanding of business models, operating models, and value stream mapping.
- Practical experience with EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) to support governance, prioritization, and portfolio management.
- Effective communicator across cross-functional teams and organizational levels.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive consensus.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, initiative-driven environment.
- Demonstrated success in leading change and continuous improvement initiatives.
- High integrity, professionalism, and ethical standards.
- Collaborative mindset with a focus on producing innovative, enterprise-wide solutions.
- Strong grasp of how EA supports governance, prioritization, and strategic change.
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