Enterprise Architect (IT)

Location: Houston, TX, United States; Workplace type: Office

Salary: $102,000–$208,000 annual base compensation, plus eligibility for applicable incentive compensation.

Company

hirify.global provides banking and regulated financial services.

What you will do

• Define enterprise architecture strategy, target-state architecture, reference architectures, and modernization roadmaps.
• Translate business and technology priorities into architecture guidance, investment themes, and transformation plans.
• Establish architecture and AI governance standards, decision criteria, guardrails, review forums, and control practices.
• Create Architecture Decision Records and maintain reusable architecture artifacts.
• Evaluate enterprise platforms, integration patterns, emerging technologies, and vendors for architecture fit and risk alignment.
• Identify technology risk, technical debt, resiliency gaps, lifecycle obsolescence, and regulatory exposure while aligning architecture domains.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, business, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• At least 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, IT transformation, or financial services technology leadership.
• Experience implementing architecture governance in regulated, agile, product-centric, or scaled delivery environments.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, integration patterns, data platforms, cybersecurity, resiliency, modern application architecture, and responsible AI governance.
• Ability to influence business stakeholders and executives and communicate complex architecture topics clearly.

Nice to have

• 12–15 years of professional experience.
• Experience in banking, financial services, insurance, fintech, payments, lending, or another regulated technology environment.
• Experience across business, application, data, infrastructure, security, cloud, and integration architecture domains.
• Familiarity with technology risk management, operational resilience, data privacy, vendor governance, audit, regulatory examinations, AI governance, model risk, and responsible AI principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-based work with certain positions potentially eligible for flexible work arrangements determined by the hiring team.
• Health insurance, wellness programs, life and disability insurance, and retirement savings plans.
• Paid leave programs, paid holidays, and paid time off.
• Incentive compensation eligibility may apply.