Enterprise Architect
Plan and design the technological infrastructure of an organisation in alignment with its business goals.
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- What's it like to be an Enterprise Architect?
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- Top skills and experience for Enterprise Architects
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What's it like to be an Enterprise Architect?
An Enterprise Architect is responsible for aligning the IT and architectural strategy with the organisation's business goals. They create a roadmap for the systems and software that a business uses, design the technical standards, and guide the organisation's IT projects. They may also troubleshoot and solve enterprise-wide issues.Tasks and duties
- Ensuring solution architectures conform to enterprise architecture principles, standards, and strategy.
- Leading the creation of the enterprise architecture capability.
- Understanding the business's economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation, to effectively support and guide technology investment decisions.
- Demonstrating business value of enterprise architecture.
- Developing and presenting business capability models and roadmaps to facilitate discussion and decision making.
- Leading a team to design and build the application that has been architected.
- Discussing the overall business plan with clients and what areas can be improved that might streamline a business or software process.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Enterprise Architect employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Enterprise Architecture
the Open Group Architecture Framework
Technology Strategy
Architecture Governance
Digital Transformation
Business Requirements
Solutions Design
Mature Thinking
AWS
Pre Sales
Microsoft Azure
Business Architecture
Technical Architecture
Strategic Thinking
Digital Innovation
Enterprise Architecture Practice
Information Technology Strategy
Strategic Consulting
Emerging Technologies
Public Sector
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Latest Enterprise Architect reviews
Jun 2025
As an Enterprise Architect, I have led strategic transformations across public and private sectors by bridging business needs and technology, delivering scalable, secure, and future-focused solutions
Reviewer's QualificationMaster of Computing
Experience1 – 4 years
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationGovernment & Defence
The good thingsWhat I enjoy most about being an Enterprise Architect is the opportunity to drive meaningful, strategic change across an organisation. I like being at the intersection of business and technology - hel...
The challengesOne of the more challenging aspects of the Enterprise Architect role is when there's a misalignment between strategy and execution - when the long-term vision isn't fully supported by governance, fund...
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Apr 2024
Guiding an organisation via Enterprise arhcitecture
Reviewer's QualificationMaster of Science
Experience10+ years
Organisation sizeI'm self-employed
SpecialisationCEO & General Management
The good thingsFrom a strategic viewpoint I am able to guide IT implementations to support the strategy. This means a lot of discussion, managing different viewpoints and creating guiding principles.
The challengesYou need to be political inclined to manage the different Interests within the organisations. This means that getting results takes time and a lot of management.
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