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Job Description
Enterprise Architecture Lead
Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
On-Site or Remote
Open to Any CSC Office
CSC is looking for an Enterprise Architecture Lead, a strategic and hands-on leadership role responsible for shaping, governing, and evolving the enterprise architecture, with a strong emphasis on delivering scalable, secure, and resilient hybrid-cloud infrastructure solutions, to align with business goals and technology transformation. This role leads a team of architects across domains (e.g., solution, security, data, infrastructure, business and applications) and partners with business and technology leaders to ensure that architecture is a catalyst for innovation, scalability, and measurable value delivery.
ET provides global platforms and infrastructure to business-unit oriented digital product teams. ET is embarking on a transformation to enable a full self-service hybrid cloud. We are enabling infrastructure-as-code infrastructure platforms and self-service Iaas/PaaS-like products. We are making a significant investment in new and refactored cloud-ready modern applications.
Key Responsibilities Strategic Leadership & Alignment • Define and evolve the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with corporate objectives. • Partner with Strategy, Engineering, and Product teams to translate business goals into architectural direction and outcomes. • Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, providing insights on technology trends, risks, and opportunities. • Partner with business leaders to translate strategic goals into enterprise capability maps and transformation roadmaps. • Facilitate enterprise-wide architecture planning sessions to align business, application, and technology strategies. Business & Application Architecture • Define and evolve business capability models and value streams in partnership with business stakeholders. • Align application portfolios with business capabilities, identifying opportunities for consolidation, modernization, or innovation. • Lead the development of application reference architectures and patterns that support agility, scalability, and reuse. • Collaborate with business analysts, product managers, and process owners to ensure architecture supports business process optimization and digital transformation. • Drive alignment between business strategy and IT investments through capability-based planning and road mapping. Hybrid-Cloud Architecture • Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-wide cloud and hybrid-cloud strategies, ensuring alignment with business and technical objectives. • Drive adoption of cloud-native and hybrid-cloud infrastructure patterns, including containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code. • Define cloud governance models, landing zones, and security architectures across public and private cloud environments. • Collaborate with platform engineering and DevOps teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure. • Evaluate and select cloud service providers, tools, and platforms based on architectural fit, performance, and risk. • Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and operational standards in cloud deployments. Architecture Governance & Enablement • Lead architecture governance forums, design reviews, and capability assessments to ensure alignment and compliance. • Establish and maintain architecture standards, reference models, and guardrails across domains. • Drive adoption of architecture tools (e.g., ABACUS) and ensure architecture documentation is current and actionable. Team Leadership & Capability Development • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of architects across multiple geographies and domains, understanding and adapting to local cultural norms, regulatory requirements, and workforce expectations while fostering a unified organizational culture. • Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and architectural excellence. • Develop and manage career paths, training programs, and communities of practice for architects, engineers, and product teams-including understanding local labor laws, hiring practices, and leadership pipeline development. • Define and manage by metrics-translating business goals into measurable outcomes, using dashboards, OKRs, and KPIs to track performance and guide continuous improvement. Execution & Delivery Support • Embed architects within delivery teams to guide solution design, ensure alignment to target architecture, and support execution. • Collaborate with technical leaders and project owners to define architecture milestones, dependencies, and value realization. • Support procurement and vendor assessments with architectural input and risk evaluation. • Lead complex, multi-regional initiatives with clear accountability for delivering scope, quality, timeline, and budget-leveraging modern project management practices and tools. • Guide application rationalization and modernization efforts, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles. • Support business case development for major initiatives by providing architectural insights and impact assessments. Innovation & Continuous Improvement • Monitor emerging technologies and industry trends to inform strategic planning and innovation. • Promote architectural thinking across the organization through coaching, workshops, and enablement. • Drive continuous improvement in architectural practices, tools, and engagement models.
Qualifications, technical skills, experience Experience • 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, with at least 5 years in a leadership role. • Highly self-motivated and directed, Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail • Demonstrated hands-on experience across the full spectrum of architecture domains • Demonstrated experience in business architecture, including capability modeling, value stream mapping, and strategic planning. • Experience leading application architecture initiatives, including legacy modernization, SaaS adoption, and microservices design. • Proven track record of leading architectural initiatives and driving organizational change. • Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid-cloud infrastructure solutions (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware). • Deep understanding of cloud architecture principles, including multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and edge computing models. • Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes). • Experience establishing cloud governance, cost optimization, and operational monitoring frameworks. • Architecture for Strategy: Translating enterprise goals into strategic architecture blueprints and roadmaps. • Architecture for Portfolio: Structuring and governing programs and capability-aligned initiatives to ensure architectural coherence and value realization. • Architecture for Projects: Supporting project initiation, procurement, and delivery through architecture milestones, solution alignment, and risk mitigation. • Architecture for Solution Delivery: Defining implementation architectures, validating vendor solutions, and ensuring conformance to target state. • Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills, with ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. • Ability to see the big picture and align architectural decisions with long-term business objectives. Strategic thinking ensures that platform architecture supports the overall goals of the organization. • Excellent analytical, planning, organizational and technical skills, with a focus on delivering practical and innovative solutions.
Leadership & Management • Proven ability to lead and scale architecture teams across domains (e.g., solution, security, data, infrastructure) and geographies. • Experience establishing and operating architecture governance boards, review forums, and communities of practice. • Skilled in coaching and mentoring architects and engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and architectural excellence. • Ability to manage architecture capability maturity, performance metrics, and knowledge management practices. • Value-based & Principle-based decision making • Demonstrated experience in working with a geographically dispersed team Frameworks & Methodologies • Deep understanding and practical application of TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), including the Architecture Development Method (ADM), Architecture Content Framework, and Capability Framework. • Familiarity with complementary frameworks such as SABSA, Zachman, and ITIL.
About Us
CSC is a global business, legal, and financial services company based in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, providing knowledge-based solutions to clients worldwide. We have offices and capabilities in over 140 jurisdictions in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, and more than 8,000 colleagues. We are the business behind business.®
Visit our careers site to learn more about CSC and our commitment to our clients, communities, and each other.
CSC is committed to creating a feeling of belonging through a diverse and growth-oriented environment where everyone is valued.
CSC colleagues have global career opportunities and excellent benefits, including annual success-sharing bonuses or commission plans based on individual performance. To learn more, visit cscglobal.com/service/careers.
We offer a range of support to colleagues with disabilities, ensuring people have the necessary resources to thrive in their roles. We encourage candidates to work closely with our talent acquisition partners to convey their specific needs. Our commitment to accessibility reflects our broader dedication to diversity and belonging,
CSC only accepts resumes from employment agencies that are part of our approved supplier program. Resumes submitted from other agencies either to talent acquisition, our hiring leaders, employees, or through any other mechanism other than our supplier process, will not be eligible to claim related fees and the submitted resumes will be considered property of CSC.
We encourage candidates to apply directly to our website and not through third-party sources.
Disclaimer: The information above describes the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not intended to describe all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications.
About the Team
At CSC®, we're always looking ahead, finding ways to improve and anticipate the future needs of our customers. Curiosity fuels our innovation and productivity drives our results. This proactive mindset has helped us adapt and create solutions that have enabled businesses to run smoother and smarter for more than 120 years.
CSC is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining talented people whose personal values align with ours. We empower our employees to bring the right solutions to market to meet customer demand. That is why we are the premier provider of global solutions for more than 180,000 businesses.
CSC is a great place to work with smart and dedicated people. We have been voted a Top Workplace every year since 2006 and are a 2022 National Top Workplace. We offer challenging work and career opportunities. Most positions are filled with internal moves and employee referrals. Employees are eligible for an annual success sharing bonus or commission plans based on role and individual performance. CSC offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, life insurance, and flexible spending and health savings accounts. We also offer you a 401(k) with employer match and profit-sharing, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more. As business needs allow, CSC offers hybrid/remote work schedules in alignment with local regulations. Specific details for this position will be discussed during the interview process. Our global standard for our work environments supports current and future technology initiatives through open design, sit-stand workstations, and digital interface points with wireless access throughout the campus. It's an exciting time for us in terms of growth and expansion.
Enterprise Architecture Lead
Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
On-Site or Remote
Open to Any CSC Office
CSC is looking for an Enterprise Architecture Lead, a strategic and hands-on leadership role responsible for shaping, governing, and evolving the enterprise architecture, with a strong emphasis on delivering scalable, secure, and resilient hybrid-cloud infrastructure solutions, to align with business goals and technology transformation. This role leads a team of architects across domains (e.g., solution, security, data, infrastructure, business and applications) and partners with business and technology leaders to ensure that architecture is a catalyst for innovation, scalability, and measurable value delivery.
ET provides global platforms and infrastructure to business-unit oriented digital product teams. ET is embarking on a transformation to enable a full self-service hybrid cloud. We are enabling infrastructure-as-code infrastructure platforms and self-service Iaas/PaaS-like products. We are making a significant investment in new and refactored cloud-ready modern applications.
Key Responsibilities Strategic Leadership & Alignment • Define and evolve the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with corporate objectives. • Partner with Strategy, Engineering, and Product teams to translate business goals into architectural direction and outcomes. • Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, providing insights on technology trends, risks, and opportunities. • Partner with business leaders to translate strategic goals into enterprise capability maps and transformation roadmaps. • Facilitate enterprise-wide architecture planning sessions to align business, application, and technology strategies. Business & Application Architecture • Define and evolve business capability models and value streams in partnership with business stakeholders. • Align application portfolios with business capabilities, identifying opportunities for consolidation, modernization, or innovation. • Lead the development of application reference architectures and patterns that support agility, scalability, and reuse. • Collaborate with business analysts, product managers, and process owners to ensure architecture supports business process optimization and digital transformation. • Drive alignment between business strategy and IT investments through capability-based planning and road mapping. Hybrid-Cloud Architecture • Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-wide cloud and hybrid-cloud strategies, ensuring alignment with business and technical objectives. • Drive adoption of cloud-native and hybrid-cloud infrastructure patterns, including containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code. • Define cloud governance models, landing zones, and security architectures across public and private cloud environments. • Collaborate with platform engineering and DevOps teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure. • Evaluate and select cloud service providers, tools, and platforms based on architectural fit, performance, and risk. • Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and operational standards in cloud deployments. Architecture Governance & Enablement • Lead architecture governance forums, design reviews, and capability assessments to ensure alignment and compliance. • Establish and maintain architecture standards, reference models, and guardrails across domains. • Drive adoption of architecture tools (e.g., ABACUS) and ensure architecture documentation is current and actionable. Team Leadership & Capability Development • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of architects across multiple geographies and domains, understanding and adapting to local cultural norms, regulatory requirements, and workforce expectations while fostering a unified organizational culture. • Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and architectural excellence. • Develop and manage career paths, training programs, and communities of practice for architects, engineers, and product teams-including understanding local labor laws, hiring practices, and leadership pipeline development. • Define and manage by metrics-translating business goals into measurable outcomes, using dashboards, OKRs, and KPIs to track performance and guide continuous improvement. Execution & Delivery Support • Embed architects within delivery teams to guide solution design, ensure alignment to target architecture, and support execution. • Collaborate with technical leaders and project owners to define architecture milestones, dependencies, and value realization. • Support procurement and vendor assessments with architectural input and risk evaluation. • Lead complex, multi-regional initiatives with clear accountability for delivering scope, quality, timeline, and budget-leveraging modern project management practices and tools. • Guide application rationalization and modernization efforts, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles. • Support business case development for major initiatives by providing architectural insights and impact assessments. Innovation & Continuous Improvement • Monitor emerging technologies and industry trends to inform strategic planning and innovation. • Promote architectural thinking across the organization through coaching, workshops, and enablement. • Drive continuous improvement in architectural practices, tools, and engagement models.
Qualifications, technical skills, experience Experience • 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, with at least 5 years in a leadership role. • Highly self-motivated and directed, Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail • Demonstrated hands-on experience across the full spectrum of architecture domains • Demonstrated experience in business architecture, including capability modeling, value stream mapping, and strategic planning. • Experience leading application architecture initiatives, including legacy modernization, SaaS adoption, and microservices design. • Proven track record of leading architectural initiatives and driving organizational change. • Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid-cloud infrastructure solutions (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware). • Deep understanding of cloud architecture principles, including multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and edge computing models. • Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes). • Experience establishing cloud governance, cost optimization, and operational monitoring frameworks. • Architecture for Strategy: Translating enterprise goals into strategic architecture blueprints and roadmaps. • Architecture for Portfolio: Structuring and governing programs and capability-aligned initiatives to ensure architectural coherence and value realization. • Architecture for Projects: Supporting project initiation, procurement, and delivery through architecture milestones, solution alignment, and risk mitigation. • Architecture for Solution Delivery: Defining implementation architectures, validating vendor solutions, and ensuring conformance to target state. • Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills, with ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. • Ability to see the big picture and align architectural decisions with long-term business objectives. Strategic thinking ensures that platform architecture supports the overall goals of the organization. • Excellent analytical, planning, organizational and technical skills, with a focus on delivering practical and innovative solutions.
Leadership & Management • Proven ability to lead and scale architecture teams across domains (e.g., solution, security, data, infrastructure) and geographies. • Experience establishing and operating architecture governance boards, review forums, and communities of practice. • Skilled in coaching and mentoring architects and engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and architectural excellence. • Ability to manage architecture capability maturity, performance metrics, and knowledge management practices. • Value-based & Principle-based decision making • Demonstrated experience in working with a geographically dispersed team Frameworks & Methodologies • Deep understanding and practical application of TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), including the Architecture Development Method (ADM), Architecture Content Framework, and Capability Framework. • Familiarity with complementary frameworks such as SABSA, Zachman, and ITIL.
About Us
CSC is a global business, legal, and financial services company based in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, providing knowledge-based solutions to clients worldwide. We have offices and capabilities in over 140 jurisdictions in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, and more than 8,000 colleagues. We are the business behind business.®
Visit our careers site to learn more about CSC and our commitment to our clients, communities, and each other.
CSC is committed to creating a feeling of belonging through a diverse and growth-oriented environment where everyone is valued.
CSC colleagues have global career opportunities and excellent benefits, including annual success-sharing bonuses or commission plans based on individual performance. To learn more, visit cscglobal.com/service/careers.
We offer a range of support to colleagues with disabilities, ensuring people have the necessary resources to thrive in their roles. We encourage candidates to work closely with our talent acquisition partners to convey their specific needs. Our commitment to accessibility reflects our broader dedication to diversity and belonging,
CSC only accepts resumes from employment agencies that are part of our approved supplier program. Resumes submitted from other agencies either to talent acquisition, our hiring leaders, employees, or through any other mechanism other than our supplier process, will not be eligible to claim related fees and the submitted resumes will be considered property of CSC.
We encourage candidates to apply directly to our website and not through third-party sources.
Disclaimer: The information above describes the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not intended to describe all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications.
About the Team
At CSC®, we're always looking ahead, finding ways to improve and anticipate the future needs of our customers. Curiosity fuels our innovation and productivity drives our results. This proactive mindset has helped us adapt and create solutions that have enabled businesses to run smoother and smarter for more than 120 years.
CSC is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining talented people whose personal values align with ours. We empower our employees to bring the right solutions to market to meet customer demand. That is why we are the premier provider of global solutions for more than 180,000 businesses.
CSC is a great place to work with smart and dedicated people. We have been voted a Top Workplace every year since 2006 and are a 2022 National Top Workplace. We offer challenging work and career opportunities. Most positions are filled with internal moves and employee referrals. Employees are eligible for an annual success sharing bonus or commission plans based on role and individual performance. CSC offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, life insurance, and flexible spending and health savings accounts. We also offer you a 401(k) with employer match and profit-sharing, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more. As business needs allow, CSC offers hybrid/remote work schedules in alignment with local regulations. Specific details for this position will be discussed during the interview process. Our global standard for our work environments supports current and future technology initiatives through open design, sit-stand workstations, and digital interface points with wireless access throughout the campus. It's an exciting time for us in terms of growth and expansion.