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Senior level consulting architect jobs place experienced professionals in charge of architectural direction, end-to-end project ownership, and the technical teams that deliver complex solutions. Hiring is concentrated across Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Manufacturing, with 57% of openings remote or hybrid, and employers like Trimble, HP, and CDW hiring at this level now.
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Location: Dallas, TX preferred; candidates from other locations considered
Experience: 7+ years
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
Work Arrangement:
- DFW-based candidates: Hybrid schedule, 3 days onsite per week in Irving, TX.
- Candidates outside DFW: Remote, with occasional travel to Irving, TX as needed.
About the Role
VRIZE is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect Consultant with a strong Business Architecture background and financial services and insurance domain expertise to support a major enterprise architecture and operational resilience initiative for a leading financial services organization. This role requires an architect who understands both business operations and enterprise technology and can translate business capabilities into actionable architecture standards, service classifications, non-functional requirements, and disaster recovery strategies. The selected candidate will work directly with business stakeholders, internal architecture teams, and PwC to develop an integrated business capability model, enterprise taxonomy, and architecture governance framework. The ideal candidate is a business-focused architect who can build frameworks, facilitate cross-functional decisions, and establish alignment across enterprise architecture, technology, risk, and resilience initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Business Architecture & Enterprise Taxonomy
- Lead the development and maturation of enterprise business capability models and taxonomies.
- Work directly with business stakeholders to understand financial services and insurance business processes, capabilities, and technology dependencies.
- Establish consistent enterprise-wide application and service classification standards.
- Develop and refine application/service tiering methodologies based on business criticality.
- Connect business capabilities to enterprise architecture standards, non-functional requirements, availability expectations, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Identify application dependencies and assess their impact on business capabilities and operational resilience.
Enterprise Architecture Integration & Governance
- Collaborate with PwC and internal architecture stakeholders to establish integrated processes across SAP LeanIX, ServiceNow CMDB, Archer, and related enterprise systems.
- Analyze and reconcile application, architecture, and governance data across multiple platforms.
- Identify and resolve inconsistencies in enterprise architecture information, application classifications, and dependency mappings.
- Develop target-state architecture recommendations, governance standards, methodologies, and roadmaps.
- Support enterprise architecture governance and ensure alignment with established technology standards and strategic objectives.
- Provide independent architecture recommendations and help drive informed enterprise-level decisions.
Resiliency & Service Criticality
- Analyze application portfolios, business capabilities, service criticality, and technology dependencies.
- Align business/service classifications with Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), and availability requirements.
- Support development of a target-state application/service tiering operating model.
- Evaluate hybrid cloud and on-premises resiliency requirements, including high availability, replication, backup, and recovery.
- Connect business criticality with disaster recovery and operational resilience requirements.
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Partner with business leaders, enterprise architects, product teams, engineering, infrastructure, risk, and governance stakeholders.
- Facilitate cross-functional discussions and drive consensus on business capabilities, enterprise taxonomy, and architecture standards.
- Collaborate with external consulting partners, including PwC, to support integrated enterprise architecture initiatives.
- Present findings, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and business leadership.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of relevant architecture/technology experience, including demonstrated Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture experience.
- Strong financial services and insurance domain knowledge, including understanding of business capabilities, operational processes, and supporting technology environments.
- Demonstrated experience building business capability models and enterprise taxonomies.
- Experience working directly with business teams in a Business Architecture capacity.
- Strong understanding of application, technology, integration, and infrastructure architecture.
- Experience with application portfolio management, business capability mapping, application/service classification, dependency analysis, and architecture roadmaps.
- Experience with ServiceNow CMDB and enterprise architecture/APM platforms such as SAP LeanIX.
- Ability to integrate and reconcile architecture information across multiple enterprise systems.
- Understanding of enterprise governance, architecture standards, non-functional requirements, and decision-making frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of business continuity, disaster recovery, BIA, RTO, RPO, and service criticality.
- Understanding of hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure resilience.
- Working knowledge of cloud architecture, preferably Microsoft Azure.
- Strong stakeholder facilitation, analytical, executive communication, and decision-making skills.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience with SAP LeanIX.
- Experience with Archer or comparable governance, risk, and compliance platforms.
- Experience collaborating with major consulting firms on enterprise architecture transformation programs.
- Knowledge of BIAN (Banking Industry Architecture Network) methodology.
- Experience with application portfolio rationalization, operational resilience, technology lifecycle management, and exception management.
- TOGAF, cloud architecture, or comparable industry certification.
Ideal Candidate Profile
We are looking for a Business Architect with strong Enterprise Architecture expertise, rather than a purely infrastructure-focused architect. The ideal candidate has worked in financial services and/or insurance environments, developed enterprise business capability models and taxonomies, and helped organizations connect business operations to technology architecture, service criticality, governance, and disaster recovery requirements. Candidates should demonstrate experience influencing architecture decisions, working across complex stakeholder groups, and establishing integrated processes involving enterprise architecture platforms such as LeanIX and ServiceNow.
Priority will be given to candidates with demonstrated Business Architecture, financial services/insurance domain expertise, business capability modeling, enterprise taxonomy development, and cross-functional architecture leadership.
Location: Dallas, TX preferred; candidates from other locations considered
Experience: 7+ years
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
Work Arrangement:
- DFW-based candidates: Hybrid schedule, 3 days onsite per week in Irving, TX.
- Candidates outside DFW: Remote, with occasional travel to Irving, TX as needed.
About the Role
VRIZE is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect Consultant with a strong Business Architecture background and financial services and insurance domain expertise to support a major enterprise architecture and operational resilience initiative for a leading financial services organization. This role requires an architect who understands both business operations and enterprise technology and can translate business capabilities into actionable architecture standards, service classifications, non-functional requirements, and disaster recovery strategies. The selected candidate will work directly with business stakeholders, internal architecture teams, and PwC to develop an integrated business capability model, enterprise taxonomy, and architecture governance framework. The ideal candidate is a business-focused architect who can build frameworks, facilitate cross-functional decisions, and establish alignment across enterprise architecture, technology, risk, and resilience initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Business Architecture & Enterprise Taxonomy
- Lead the development and maturation of enterprise business capability models and taxonomies.
- Work directly with business stakeholders to understand financial services and insurance business processes, capabilities, and technology dependencies.
- Establish consistent enterprise-wide application and service classification standards.
- Develop and refine application/service tiering methodologies based on business criticality.
- Connect business capabilities to enterprise architecture standards, non-functional requirements, availability expectations, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Identify application dependencies and assess their impact on business capabilities and operational resilience.
Enterprise Architecture Integration & Governance
- Collaborate with PwC and internal architecture stakeholders to establish integrated processes across SAP LeanIX, ServiceNow CMDB, Archer, and related enterprise systems.
- Analyze and reconcile application, architecture, and governance data across multiple platforms.
- Identify and resolve inconsistencies in enterprise architecture information, application classifications, and dependency mappings.
- Develop target-state architecture recommendations, governance standards, methodologies, and roadmaps.
- Support enterprise architecture governance and ensure alignment with established technology standards and strategic objectives.
- Provide independent architecture recommendations and help drive informed enterprise-level decisions.
Resiliency & Service Criticality
- Analyze application portfolios, business capabilities, service criticality, and technology dependencies.
- Align business/service classifications with Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), and availability requirements.
- Support development of a target-state application/service tiering operating model.
- Evaluate hybrid cloud and on-premises resiliency requirements, including high availability, replication, backup, and recovery.
- Connect business criticality with disaster recovery and operational resilience requirements.
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Partner with business leaders, enterprise architects, product teams, engineering, infrastructure, risk, and governance stakeholders.
- Facilitate cross-functional discussions and drive consensus on business capabilities, enterprise taxonomy, and architecture standards.
- Collaborate with external consulting partners, including PwC, to support integrated enterprise architecture initiatives.
- Present findings, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and business leadership.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of relevant architecture/technology experience, including demonstrated Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture experience.
- Strong financial services and insurance domain knowledge, including understanding of business capabilities, operational processes, and supporting technology environments.
- Demonstrated experience building business capability models and enterprise taxonomies.
- Experience working directly with business teams in a Business Architecture capacity.
- Strong understanding of application, technology, integration, and infrastructure architecture.
- Experience with application portfolio management, business capability mapping, application/service classification, dependency analysis, and architecture roadmaps.
- Experience with ServiceNow CMDB and enterprise architecture/APM platforms such as SAP LeanIX.
- Ability to integrate and reconcile architecture information across multiple enterprise systems.
- Understanding of enterprise governance, architecture standards, non-functional requirements, and decision-making frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of business continuity, disaster recovery, BIA, RTO, RPO, and service criticality.
- Understanding of hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure resilience.
- Working knowledge of cloud architecture, preferably Microsoft Azure.
- Strong stakeholder facilitation, analytical, executive communication, and decision-making skills.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience with SAP LeanIX.
- Experience with Archer or comparable governance, risk, and compliance platforms.
- Experience collaborating with major consulting firms on enterprise architecture transformation programs.
- Knowledge of BIAN (Banking Industry Architecture Network) methodology.
- Experience with application portfolio rationalization, operational resilience, technology lifecycle management, and exception management.
- TOGAF, cloud architecture, or comparable industry certification.
Ideal Candidate Profile
We are looking for a Business Architect with strong Enterprise Architecture expertise, rather than a purely infrastructure-focused architect. The ideal candidate has worked in financial services and/or insurance environments, developed enterprise business capability models and taxonomies, and helped organizations connect business operations to technology architecture, service criticality, governance, and disaster recovery requirements. Candidates should demonstrate experience influencing architecture decisions, working across complex stakeholder groups, and establishing integrated processes involving enterprise architecture platforms such as LeanIX and ServiceNow.
Priority will be given to candidates with demonstrated Business Architecture, financial services/insurance domain expertise, business capability modeling, enterprise taxonomy development, and cross-functional architecture leadership.
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Senior Level Consulting Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level consulting architect job?
Employers at this level look for demonstrated ownership of large-scale architecture decisions, not just execution. A strong candidate shows a portfolio of enterprise-level engagements, the ability to lead cross-functional teams, and experience translating ambiguous client requirements into defensible technical roadmaps. Certifications in cloud platforms or enterprise architecture frameworks, combined with visible thought leadership, give candidates a measurable edge over equally experienced peers.
Which companies hire senior level consulting architects?
Companies hiring senior level consulting architects right now include Trimble, HP, and CDW, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this level, hiring comes from large systems integrators, management consulting firms, and technology companies standing up or modernizing enterprise-scale platforms.
Are there remote senior level consulting architect jobs?
Yes, though many roles still require periodic client travel or on-site presence for critical project phases. About 57% of senior level consulting architect openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand from employers who prioritize access to experienced talent over geography. Fully remote roles tend to be concentrated in cloud, data, and digital transformation practices.
What makes a consulting architect role senior level?
Senior level roles are defined by scope and ownership rather than task execution. A senior consulting architect sets the technical direction for an engagement, makes binding architectural decisions, and is accountable for outcomes across the full project lifecycle. They are also expected to mentor junior architects, contribute to practice development, and serve as a credible technical authority in front of executive stakeholders and clients.
Which industries hire the most senior level consulting architects?
Senior level consulting architect roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Manufacturing, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive hiring at this level because they are actively modernizing legacy infrastructure, scaling cloud environments, or rebuilding core platforms, all of which require experienced architects who can own the strategy and not just support it.