Enterprise Architect

We currently have a career opportunity for a Enterprise Architect to join our team. Put your expertise to work. Join Perficient as an Enterprise Architect to drive meaningful business outcomes for our clients and their customers. Our Experience Design team helps global brands deliver exceptional, human-centered experiences across every screen, device, and channel. We blend strategy, creativity, and user insights to craft digital experiences that drive customer satisfaction, elevate brand perception, and deepen engagement.

 

 

 Strategic Planning

• 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

 System Design

• 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

 Technology Evaluation

• Drive and own the selection of appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools for platform implementation
• May assist in platform selection and implementation of platforms 

 Standards and Guidelines

• 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

 People Leadership

• 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
   

 Other Qualifications 

• 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 vet