Enterprise Architect

Push boundaries. Explore ideas. Reshape tomorrow. Join Garrett and grow your career while helping top vehicle brands accelerate towards a cleaner, safer, and smarter future.

Garrett is a cutting -edge technology leader delivering differentiated solutions for emission reduction and energy efficiency. We are passionate about innovating for mobility and beyond. With a nearly 70-year legacy, we serve customer worldwide with passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle, aftermarket replacement, and performance enhancement solutions. 

Join Our Team as an Enterprise Architect!

What You'll Do:

Builds the EA Value Proposition

• Contributes to positioning the EA practice.
• Enables value-based messaging and manages cross-functional relationships.

Leads Business-Driven Conversations

• Facilitates interactions with business leaders, product managers, and product owners.
• Discusses risks and implications of product decisions.

Guides Transformation and Resolves Conflicts

• Leads a collaborative community of architects.
• Works with a strategic committee to guide transformation and resolve conflicts between IT delivery and enterprise business outcomes.

Develops Solution Architects

• Ensures professional development and adherence to EA principles for solution architects.

Develops Business Architecture

• Positions EA practice at the intersection of business and IT.
• Formulates, translates, and executes business strategy.
• Works with business architects and leaders to identify key drivers and business outcomes.
• Develops diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables to guide investment decisions.

Supports Portfolio Modernization

• Aligns, integrates, and coordinates architecture activities across programs, projects, and products.
• Presents gap analyses and IT investment roadmaps.
• Detects critical deficiencies in the IT environment and recommends solutions.
• Develops implementation plans based on business requirements and IT strategies.

Supports Solutions Design and Delivery

• Develops minimal viable architectures through the EA governance model.
• Facilitates collaborative relationships across architecture community, product management, and delivery teams.
• Ensures consistency with enterprise architecture and leverages shared technologies, tools, and processes.
• Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency and identify necessary modifications.

Analyzes Innovations and Trends

• Scans emerging technologies and business ecosystem for disruptive trends.
• Provides practical advice and best practices to leverage new opportunities and deliver expected business outcomes.

What We Need:

Educational Background

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.

Experience

• 5 years of prior IT Architecture experience or related projects.
• At least 8 years of experience in at least three disciplines such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management, or operations in a multitier environment.

Skills and Attributes

• Structured, analytic, and independent working methods.
• High flexibility, willingness, and assertiveness.
• Ability to work with cross-functional and multicultural teams.
• Strong oral and written communication skills; excellent presentation skills.

Knowledge and Understanding

• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, and predictive analytics.
• Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.
• Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Understanding of various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric, and different types of agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.
• Awareness of existing, new, and emerging technologies and processing environments.