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Position Summary

The VP Enterprise Architecture (EA) is responsible for building, leading, and continuously evolving the Enterprise Architecture function to deliver measurable business and technology outcomes. This role ensures that enterprise and future state architectures enable strategy execution, technology modernization, and sound investment decisions that support revenue growth, cost optimization, and risk mitigation.

Acting as a strategic partner to the senior business and IT leaders, the Vice President EA positions the EA function as an internal management consultancy—providing advisory services, governance, and actionable guidance that connect business strategy to technology execution. The role leads and develops a high performing team of enterprise, business, and IT architects and ensures EA remains aligned with evolving business priorities and the external technology landscape.

DESCRIPTION

Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities

Evolve and Lead Enterprise Architecture Function

• EA Strategy, Charter, and Value Proposition
• Define, communicate, and continuously adapt the EA function’s charter, service portfolio, and value proposition in response to changing business and technology needs.
• Promote EA as a strategic enabler of business outcomes, digital strategy, and technology innovation.

• Secure stakeholder alignment, sponsorship, and resources required to deliver EA services effectively.

• Team Leadership and Talent Development

• Build, lead, and manage a diverse team of enterprise, business, and IT architects.
• Recruit, develop, and retain talent with strong technical, business, and behavioral competencies.
• Establish clear career paths and mentoring programs, emphasizing storytelling, influence, design thinking, and executive communication.

• Foster a culture of collaboration, learning, innovation, and accountability across the EA function and broader architecture community.

• EA Operating Model and Governance

• Define and evolve the EA operating model, including organizational structure, decision rights, governance processes, and engagement models.
• Partner with the CIO and senior IT leaders to balance agility, autonomy, risk, and compliance.

• Establish outcome driven metrics (ODMs) to measure EA effectiveness and business value.

• Drive Technology Modernization and Innovation

• Technology Trends and Disruption Analysis

• Enable continuous assessment of technology, economic, regulatory, social, and environmental trends and their impact on business and IT strategy.

• Provide practical, actionable guidance on emerging and innovative technologies, including generative AI.

• Technology Modernization Planning

• Assess current state architectures, technology portfolios, and investment roadmaps.
• Identify gaps and technical debt and lead rationalization initiatives to improve reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

• Develop and guide execution of technology modernization roadmaps aligned to business capabilities and delivery models.

• Support for Solution Delivery

• Establish and maintain architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Enable adaptive, context driven governance that empowers delivery teams while ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy.

• Partner with product, delivery, infrastructure, and data leaders to ensure cross functional alignment and reuse of shared platforms and capabilities.

• Connecting IT Investment Decisions to Business Outcomes

• Strategy and Business Alignment

• Collaborate with business and IT leaders to translate enterprise strategy into executable architecture and roadmaps.

• Assess organizational readiness for change and support strategy formulation and execution.

• Strategy to Execution Enablement

• Facilitate alignment between business capabilities, value streams, and IT architecture.
• Orchestrate future state architecture delivery across business units and IT functions.

• Provide diagnostic and consumable architecture deliverables that support decision making and execution.

• Stakeholder Engagement and Value Communication

• Act as a trusted advisor to executives and senior leaders.
• Lead outcome focused conversations on investment tradeoffs, risks, and enterprise impacts.
• Build strong cross functional relationships and resolve conflicts between local optimization and enterprise outcomes.
• Clearly communicate the value and impact delivered by the EA function.
• Ability to effectively and accurately convey information to others.
• Performs related duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, computer science, engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of experience in strategic planning, business analysis, or enterprise architecture.
• 10+ years of experience across multiple architecture or technology disciplines (e.g., business, enterprise, application, solution, infrastructure, data, or operations).

Skills, Abilities, and Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of business and operating models, financial analysis, budgeting, and risk management.
• Deep understanding of modern technology ecosystems, including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, APIs, microservices, event driven architectures, and analytics.
• Familiarity with EA frameworks, IT service management, agile and lean methodologies, and scaled agile practices.
• Awareness of emerging technologies, including generative AI and their enterprise applications.
• Experience with EA tools, modeling techniques, and architecture repositories.
• Strong verbal communication skills; strong writing and composition abilities.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain effective and professional relationships across the organization and with customers.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills; consultative and collaborative work style.
• High learning agility with the ability to learn and integrate business variables and learn new systems and platforms.
• Strong analytical skills & problem-solving abilities; solid decision-making abilities coupled with sound judgment.
• Effective at managing multiple priorities under tight deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong project management and time management capability.
• Self-directed and comfortable working with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• High degree of professional maturity, integrity, ability to maintain confidential data and information.
• High degree of business acumen; strong technical aptitude.

Work Environment and Physical Requirements

• Describe the work environment and physical requirements. Example below.
• Working on-site at assigned office location.
• Regular and punctual attendance adhering to schedule established by leadership.
• Flexibility to work occasionally adjusted work schedules, overtime, and evening and/or weekend hours to meet deadlines or as business needs demand.
• Working in a cubicle hub, maintaining focus on phone calls in a noisy environment within earshot of multiple other conversations.
• Sedentary work in a stationary position at a cubicle for prolonged periods of time.
• Constant repetitive motions required for operating a computer, such as typing and managing phone calls.
• Constantly communicating effectively verbally in English, including accurately exchanging information with others following identification of correct procedures.

Additional Information:

While this description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the position’s requirements, it in no way implies/states that these are the only job responsibilities. Management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and request other duties, as necessary.

All employees are required to have smart phones that meet Company security standards with the ability to install apps such as Microsoft Authenticator. Employment will be contingent on this requirement.

Why Newrez

We’re a great place to work because we invest in what matters: your career, your community, your wellbeing, and your future. Our total rewards package is designed to support your whole self.

Company Benefits:

We offer benefits, programs, and perks that support you in every aspect of your life.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account with employer contribution
• 401(k) Retirement plan with employer match
• Paid Maternity Leave/Parental Bonding Leave/Caregiver Leave
• Adoption Assistance
• Tuition & Certification reimbursement
• Employee Mortgage Loan Program
• The Newrez Employee Emergency and Disaster Fund is a program to support our team members experiencing hardships

Newrez NOW:

Through Newrez NOW, our Corporate Social Responsibility program, you’ll have opportunities to give back, lead, and make a difference.

• 1 company-paid Volunteer Time Off day (with over 40,000 volunteer hours contributed since our inception)
• Matching Gifts Program - dollar-for-dollar up to $1,000
• Access to grants, nonprofit resources, and volunteer opportunities
• More than $6,000,000 donated since 2020
• 1 in 5 employees participates in at least one Employee Resource Group (ERG)

Equal Employment Opportunity

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our employees' differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. Different makes us better.