Chief Enterprise Architect

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Chief Enterprise Architect

Job Description Summary:

Under the direction of the CIO, the Chief Enterprise Architect (CEA) is responsible for the organization's overall Enterprise Architecture. This role is typically engaged as the highest-level technology expert across all architecture domains. The CEA manages a team of solution and domain architects and directs that team in working towards the strategic transformational goals of the college. The Enterprise Architecture team is also tasked with designing solutions that support day-to-day operations.

Given the ongoing digital transformation, the CEA will be responsible for developing and maintaining architecture standards which drive solution designs. The CEA will also be responsible for delivering solution designs that are consistent with ACC’s enterprise strategies. This role functions within an IT as a Business (ITaaB) model which requires clear definition of IT business processes, including: a clearly defined service catalog, operating and service level agreements, streamlined business processes, and strategic budgeting for the team. Therefore, the ideal candidate will be a highly technical individual but will also need to have keen business acumen.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

• Supervises, trains, coaches, directs, coordinates, and disciplines personnel while adhering to organizational human resource policies and procedures as well as related employment laws.  Recommends hire and termination personnel actions for positions supervised.
• Leading or co-leading specific initiatives related to technology changes, including infrastructure, data systems and security systems. This includes being the person primarily responsible for integrating new student information systems, ERP systems, data center infrastructure and the college’s data hub, among others.
• Learning business needs, business capabilities, and delivering the corresponding enterprise system designs to drive the organization towards targeted business outcomes.
• Researching and understanding emerging technologies and incorporating new technologies into existing and upcoming environment and solution designs.
• Developing and maintaining the business of operational Enterprise Architecture at the college (service catalog, processes, budget, OLA’s, etc.)
• Working with the CIO to clearly define the charter of the EA team and refine it over time.
• Establishing and/or continuing to mature ACC’s enterprise architecture standards.
• Establishing KPIs and success metrics for the Enterprise Architecture function and reporting on those metrics to the CIO and the broader IT organization.
• Owning the creation and maintenance of environment and solution documentation according to established standards.
• Taking complex business challenges and creating high-level solutions consistent with ACC’s enterprise architecture strategies.
• Leading the effort to take existing high-level architecture solutions down to the lowest level of detail needed to facilitate implementation.
• Leading the Architecture Review Board (ARB) in assessing solutions for viability within existing and planned technology en