Responsibilities
- Align with the organization’s business strategy and goals as well as its data and technology landscape
- Identify and define business capabilities to guide target architecture
- Guide creation of integrated business and technology roadmap
- Experience managing relationships, coalitions, and communication with senior and executive-level business and technology leaders to influence desired outcomes without direct authority
- Define the overall architecture, identify and evaluate risks, and perform assessments and gap analysis, taking into consideration options and tradeoffs
- Ensures scalability, security, maintainability, and performance
- Identify integration with enterprise systems, third parties, and data sources
- Provide oversight for all aspects of ongoing operations, maintenance, and management of the solution domain
- Drive and own the selection of appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools for platform implementation
- May assist in platform selection and implementation of platforms
- Manage reference architecture patterns, methodologies, processes, and workflows
- Establish and enforce platform standards, coding practices, and guidelines
- Stay up to date on the latest trends and best practices
- Proven expertise in managing and leading cross-functional matrixed teams.
- Ability to coach and mentor team members to elevate performance, skills development, and drive results
Education
Requires bachelor's degree in computer science, Information technology, or related field
Work Experience
Minimum 7-10 years of experience in enterprise architecture and software development
3+ years of proven experience managing and leading cross-functional matrixed teams
Client facing experience including pre-sales activities and meeting with c-suite executives
Technical Skills
Must be proficient in relevant architecture modeling tools (e.g.., UMO, Archimate)
Enterprise level experience in comparable/headless enterprise architectures and microservices environments
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent communication skills (written and presentation), collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to think strategically and translate business needs into technical solutions
- Excellent attention to detail
- Curious learner eager to dive deep into various areas of organization, information, and technology architecture.
- Ability to flexibly accept dynamically changing priorities
- Ability to comfortably work in a challenging and fast-paced environment and work with senior leaders, including C-Level, to identify technology trends and disruptors and develop strategic plans.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support data-informed task execution.
- A solid understanding of AI capabilities and limitations including ethical considerations is expected
WHAT WE BELIEVE
At Perficient, we promise to challenge, champion, and celebrate our people. You will experience a unique and collaborative culture that values every voice. Join our team, and you’ll become part of something truly special.
We believe in developing a workforce that is as diverse and inclusive as the clients we work with. We’re committed to actively listening, learning, and acting to further advance our organization, our communities, and our future leaders… and we’re not done yet.
Perficient, Inc. proudly provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Perficient, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Perficient, Inc. expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or covered veterans. Improper interference with the ability of Perficient, Inc. employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.
Disability Accommodations:
Perficient is committed to providing a barrier-free employment process with reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting is removed.
Disclaimer: The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, rather to act as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee assigned to this classification. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time.
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