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11-24-2026
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Job Summary
The Director, Enterprise Architecture is a critical technology leadership role accountable for defining AEP’s target-state architecture and ensuring that business strategy, technology investment, and delivery execution come together in a coherent, secure, and cost-effective technology landscape. This leader will mature the enterprise architecture (EA) practice across business, application, data, integration and technology domains, establishing the standards, reference patterns, and governance that let delivery teams move quickly without adding unmanaged complexity, risk, or technical debt.
Building on AEP’s application inventory in LeanIX, the Director will lead Application Portfolio Management so that applications are continuously assessed by business value, cost, risk, and technical fitness to guide rationalization, roadmaps, and capital planning. The Director is responsible for making architecture a collaborative, enterprise-wide discipline through a domain-team model while shaping the multi-year roadmap that supports AEP’s growth and transformation.
Job Description
What you’ll do:
Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Target State
- Define and execute an enterprise architecture strategy, principles, and target-state architecture aligned to AEP business strategy, capital plans, and risk objectives.
- Develop and maintain multi-year architecture roadmaps that sequence platform, application, integration, data, and security investments to maximize business outcomes.
- Map business capabilities to applications, data domains, and platforms to identify gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for shared services.
- Provide architecture leadership for major transformation programs, including cloud adoption, enterprise and customer platform modernization, and legacy platform retirement.
Application Portfolio Management & Rationalization
- Own the enterprise architecture repository (LeanIX) as the trusted source of truth for applications, business capabilities, interfaces, and technology lifecycle.
- Lead Application Portfolio Management, continuously assessing and classifying applications by business value, cost, risk, and technical fitness.
- Guide portfolio decisions on where to invest, sustain, modernize, and retire technology platforms in partnership with CITO leadership.
- Deliver rationalization recommendations that reduce duplication, lower run costs, and retire technical debt while maintaining business continuity.
Architecture Standards, Patterns & Governance
- Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards across application, integration, data, infrastructure, security, and delivery domains.
- Publish reusable reference architectures and technology patterns that give delivery teams a proven path for common solutions.
- Stand up and lead cross-functional Domain Teams and working groups so that standards are vetted and owned by the broader organization rather than created in isolation.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI, intelligent automation, and robotics, and develop points of view on their applicability to AEP’s business and operations.
Stakeholder Engagement & Investment Alignment
- Serve as a trusted advisor to IT and business leaders, translating complex architecture topics into clear business trade-offs and recommendations.
- Partner with portfolio planning, finance, and procurement to align architecture roadmaps with demand intake, capital planning, and vendor strategy.
- Lead architecture input to technology sourcing decisions, including RFPs, vendor evaluations, and build-versus-buy analyses.
- Brief senior leadership on the health of the architecture portfolio, roadmap progress, and emerging technology risks.
Talent Strategy & Organizational Leadership
- Build and lead a high-performing team of enterprise, solution, and domain architects.
- Develop architecture talent and future leaders through coaching, defined career paths, and communities of practice.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, pragmatism, and rigor that keeps architecture practical and closely connected to delivery teams.
- Define and track EA value metrics such as standards adoption, portfolio rationalization savings, and architecture review cycle time.
What we’re looking for:
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
Experience
- 10 yrs of relevant experience required.
Preferred Experience:
- 12+ years of progressive IT experience, including 5+ years in enterprise or solution architecture roles.
- 5+ years of experience leading architecture or technology teams in a large, complex enterprise.
Preferred Skills
- TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification.
- Hands-on experience with EA and portfolio management tools such as LeanIX.
- Experience with cloud platforms, API management, and integration and event-streaming architectures.
- Experience in the utility or energy industry, or another highly regulated industry.
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks that affect technology, including NERC CIP and FERC.
- Passion for sustainability and the clean energy transition.
Location: American Electric Power (On-Site)
LI-Onsite
AEPCareers
At AEP, we’re more than just an energy company — we’re a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions. Guided by our mission to put the customer first, we strive to exceed expectations by listening, responding, and continuously improving the way we serve our communities. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact and being part of a forward-thinking organization, this is the company for you!
Compensation Data
Compensation Grade: SP20-012
Compensation Range: $188,524.00 - $245,080.00
The Physical Demand Level for this job is: S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
It is hereby reaffirmed that it is the policy of American Electric Power (AEP) to provide Equal Employment Opportunity in all respects of the employer-employee relationship including recruiting, hiring, upgrading and promotion, conditions and privileges of employment, company sponsored training programs, educational assistance, social and recreational programs, compensation, benefits, transfers, discipline, layoffs and termination of employment to all employees and applicants without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. When required by law, we might record certain information or applicants for employment may be invited to voluntarily disclose protected characteristics.
Job Posting End Date
11-24-2026
Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.
Job Summary
The Director, Enterprise Architecture is a critical technology leadership role accountable for defining AEP’s target-state architecture and ensuring that business strategy, technology investment, and delivery execution come together in a coherent, secure, and cost-effective technology landscape. This leader will mature the enterprise architecture (EA) practice across business, application, data, integration and technology domains, establishing the standards, reference patterns, and governance that let delivery teams move quickly without adding unmanaged complexity, risk, or technical debt.
Building on AEP’s application inventory in LeanIX, the Director will lead Application Portfolio Management so that applications are continuously assessed by business value, cost, risk, and technical fitness to guide rationalization, roadmaps, and capital planning. The Director is responsible for making architecture a collaborative, enterprise-wide discipline through a domain-team model while shaping the multi-year roadmap that supports AEP’s growth and transformation.
Job Description
What you’ll do:
Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Target State
- Define and execute an enterprise architecture strategy, principles, and target-state architecture aligned to AEP business strategy, capital plans, and risk objectives.
- Develop and maintain multi-year architecture roadmaps that sequence platform, application, integration, data, and security investments to maximize business outcomes.
- Map business capabilities to applications, data domains, and platforms to identify gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for shared services.
- Provide architecture leadership for major transformation programs, including cloud adoption, enterprise and customer platform modernization, and legacy platform retirement.
Application Portfolio Management & Rationalization
- Own the enterprise architecture repository (LeanIX) as the trusted source of truth for applications, business capabilities, interfaces, and technology lifecycle.
- Lead Application Portfolio Management, continuously assessing and classifying applications by business value, cost, risk, and technical fitness.
- Guide portfolio decisions on where to invest, sustain, modernize, and retire technology platforms in partnership with CITO leadership.
- Deliver rationalization recommendations that reduce duplication, lower run costs, and retire technical debt while maintaining business continuity.
Architecture Standards, Patterns & Governance
- Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards across application, integration, data, infrastructure, security, and delivery domains.
- Publish reusable reference architectures and technology patterns that give delivery teams a proven path for common solutions.
- Stand up and lead cross-functional Domain Teams and working groups so that standards are vetted and owned by the broader organization rather than created in isolation.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI, intelligent automation, and robotics, and develop points of view on their applicability to AEP’s business and operations.
Stakeholder Engagement & Investment Alignment
- Serve as a trusted advisor to IT and business leaders, translating complex architecture topics into clear business trade-offs and recommendations.
- Partner with portfolio planning, finance, and procurement to align architecture roadmaps with demand intake, capital planning, and vendor strategy.
- Lead architecture input to technology sourcing decisions, including RFPs, vendor evaluations, and build-versus-buy analyses.
- Brief senior leadership on the health of the architecture portfolio, roadmap progress, and emerging technology risks.
Talent Strategy & Organizational Leadership
- Build and lead a high-performing team of enterprise, solution, and domain architects.
- Develop architecture talent and future leaders through coaching, defined career paths, and communities of practice.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, pragmatism, and rigor that keeps architecture practical and closely connected to delivery teams.
- Define and track EA value metrics such as standards adoption, portfolio rationalization savings, and architecture review cycle time.
What we’re looking for:
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
Experience
- 10 yrs of relevant experience required.
Preferred Experience:
- 12+ years of progressive IT experience, including 5+ years in enterprise or solution architecture roles.
- 5+ years of experience leading architecture or technology teams in a large, complex enterprise.
Preferred Skills
- TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification.
- Hands-on experience with EA and portfolio management tools such as LeanIX.
- Experience with cloud platforms, API management, and integration and event-streaming architectures.
- Experience in the utility or energy industry, or another highly regulated industry.
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks that affect technology, including NERC CIP and FERC.
- Passion for sustainability and the clean energy transition.
Location: American Electric Power (On-Site)
LI-Onsite
AEPCareers
At AEP, we’re more than just an energy company — we’re a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions. Guided by our mission to put the customer first, we strive to exceed expectations by listening, responding, and continuously improving the way we serve our communities. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact and being part of a forward-thinking organization, this is the company for you!
Compensation Data
Compensation Grade: SP20-012
Compensation Range: $188,524.00 - $245,080.00
The Physical Demand Level for this job is: S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
It is hereby reaffirmed that it is the policy of American Electric Power (AEP) to provide Equal Employment Opportunity in all respects of the employer-employee relationship including recruiting, hiring, upgrading and promotion, conditions and privileges of employment, company sponsored training programs, educational assistance, social and recreational programs, compensation, benefits, transfers, discipline, layoffs and termination of employment to all employees and applicants without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. When required by law, we might record certain information or applicants for employment may be invited to voluntarily disclose protected characteristics.
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Map your credentials to specialty occupation standards
USCIS evaluates whether a Director of Enterprise Architecture role requires a directly related bachelor's degree. Document how your degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering maps to your specific job duties, not just your title.
Use OFLC Wage Search before salary negotiations
Look up the prevailing wage for enterprise architecture directors in your target metro before you receive an offer. Your employer's LCA must certify wages at or above this level, so knowing the floor protects you if an offer comes in low.
Target companies with active LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to find employers with verified LCA filing history for enterprise architecture and senior IT leadership roles, so you're applying to companies that have already navigated the sponsorship process for positions like yours.
Distinguish yourself from consultants in your resume
Many enterprise architecture directors are staffed through consulting firms, which complicates direct H-1B sponsorship. Emphasize your role as a full-time strategic decision-maker with budget authority and direct reports to strengthen the specialty occupation argument.
Clarify PERM eligibility early for green card planning
If your employer is open to green card sponsorship, ask whether they've filed PERM labor certifications for comparable roles. Senior architecture directors often qualify for EB-2, but PERM preparation requires documenting job requirements and recruiting efforts that take months to complete.
Align your start date with H-1B cap timelines
H-1B petitions are capped annually and subject to a lottery. If you're not already in H-1B status, an offer accepted outside the registration window means waiting until October 1 of the following fiscal year before you can begin work under a new petition.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Director of Enterprise Architecture role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS looks for roles that normally require at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field. Enterprise architecture directors typically require degrees in computer science, information systems, or engineering. If the role involves broad strategic oversight rather than a defined technical discipline, your employer may need to document the degree requirement more carefully to withstand a Request for Evidence.
Can I find Director of Enterprise Architecture jobs where employers are already open to sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified LCA filing history for senior technology and architecture roles, so you can focus your search on companies that have sponsored candidates in comparable positions before. This saves time you'd otherwise spend asking recruiters about sponsorship eligibility early in the process.
What happens to my visa status if my employer goes through a merger or reorganization after sponsoring me?
If your employer is acquired or merges with another company, your H-1B status may transfer automatically if the new entity assumes the same role and conditions, but this depends on how the transaction is structured. USCIS requires that the job duties, location, and wage remain materially unchanged. Your employer's immigration counsel should file an amended petition if any of those conditions change, which is common when enterprise architecture teams are restructured post-merger.
Does a three-year Australian or Canadian bachelor's degree satisfy H-1B degree requirements for this role?
USCIS accepts foreign three-year bachelor's degrees as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree when a credential evaluation confirms they represent comparable academic achievement. For enterprise architecture roles, the field of study matters as much as the credential level, so the evaluation should explicitly tie your degree to the technical discipline your job requires.
Is an O*NET profile useful when applying for enterprise architecture director roles under H-1B?
Yes. O*NET classifies enterprise architecture roles under a job zone that typically requires a bachelor's degree, which supports your employer's specialty occupation argument in the LCA and I-129 petition. If USCIS issues an RFE questioning whether the role requires a specific degree, your employer's attorney can reference the O*NET occupational profile alongside internal job descriptions and industry norms to build the response.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Director of Enterprise Architecture jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.