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Remote Enterprise Architect jobs

6 open positions in the United States, newest first.

Enterprise architects define how an entire organization's technology should fit its business strategy. Where a solution architect designs one system or project, the enterprise architect works across the whole portfolio of applications, data, integrations and infrastructure, setting standards and target-state roadmaps and governing whether individual projects conform to them.

About the Enterprise Architect role

What the work looks like

  • Map business capabilities to the applications and data that support them and identify overlaps and gaps.
  • Define target architectures and multi-year technology roadmaps with the CIO and business unit leaders.
  • Set technology standards and reference architectures for cloud, integration, data and security.
  • Chair or sit on architecture review boards that assess project designs against those standards.
  • Evaluate vendors and platforms for major investments and advise executives on cost and risk.

What employers ask for

  • TOGAF or a comparable architecture framework
  • Broad experience across applications, data and infrastructure
  • Cloud strategy and application portfolio rationalization
  • Architecture modeling tools and ArchiMate notation
  • IT governance and standards setting
  • Communication with senior business executives

Doing this job remotely

The work is mostly analysis, documentation, review boards and conversations with leaders, all of which can be done remotely. Its influence depends on relationships across many departments, which take more deliberate effort to build from a distance. Periodic travel to headquarters for planning cycles and executive workshops is common in large organizations.

Where it comes from and where it leads

Enterprise architects generally have long experience as solution, data or infrastructure architects, or as senior engineers and consultants. The role leads to chief architect, head of architecture, chief technology officer or chief information officer.