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Senior Enterprise Architect - Data

Bread Financial
P1 - Easton Campus Building A, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Jul 2025
💰 $272,900/yr($120,500/yr$272,900/yr)

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Job Summary

The Senior Enterprise Architect role is intended to align architecture support to a specific application or technology suite, and support the application or technology suite through any internal or external impacts. This role will contribute towards defining and driving an application or technology area to the target state architecture. This is an individual contributor role that aligns to one or more application or technology areas within a sub-domain such as Digital, Integration, Care Center, or Core Applications. This role will also work with various IT and business stakeholders and provide leadership on key technology initiatives. Sr Enterprise Architects are expected to cultivate and maintain relationships Manager level leaders within IT in support of their aligned areas. This role will be called upon to onboard and mentor less experienced architects

More specifically, This position is for a Senior Enterprise Architect with a focus on Data and AI Architecture. Architects in this role are expected to have solid Data Architecture experiences at both the strategical and technical end of the spectrum. Expertise in enterprise data concepts such as data modeling (both transactional and analytical), data lakehouse, data governance, data stream processing, data science, AI/ML, Generative AI, Agentic AI, as well as deep familiarity with reporting tools such as Microstrategy. AWS data-related services, Snowflake, Collibra, Databricks, and other similar tools would be important. Coordination with program and project managers, application owners, and other architects is necessary to successfully align on the approach and execution. Flexibility to take on new, unfamiliar challenges with a positive attitude is desired.


 

Essential Job Functions 

 

  • Enterprise Architecture: Develop and maintain current state and target state architecture for an application or technology area in alignment with the strategy and direction of business or technology capabilities that are impacting the application or technology area aligned. Accountable for program and project architecture across enterprise wide initiatives typically involving custom development across multiple applications and/or significant third party assessments, integrations, and implementations. 

  • Architecture Planning and Project Support: Participate in business and IT planning for an application or technology area. Create architectural documentation to support the target state architecture based on planned initiative(s).  Promote alignment across business and technology areas around initiatives and assist with estimation and prioritization. Participate and lead architecture delivery in projects that impact the aligned application or technology area. 

  • Architecture Governance: Ensure that the application or technology area meets both the functional and non-functional requirements. Manage application capacity and performance models. Document and manage technical debt / risk related to the application or technology area. Provide thought leadership within the supported application/technology area in driving various strategies and in solving complex issues. Work closely with the technical teams in ensuring architectural standards are adhered to and any exceptions are documented and managed as technical debts. 

  • Documentation : Produces and maintains a library of reference architecture documentation.  This includes but is not limited to:  electronic diagrams, written requirements, roadmaps, and guidance.  Performs periodic reviews of deployed solutions to ensure solution health and 

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