[Remote] Enterprise Architect: Governance and Portfolio Management

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IT Motives is a company focused on aligning IT initiatives with business objectives through strategic architecture governance. The Enterprise Architect will reputed company governance, manage portfolios, and optimize business processes while ensuring that technology solutions meet business needs and adhere to industry standards.

Responsibilities

• reputed company the operational management of reputed company EA governance bodies, including the Architecture Review Board (ARB), Software Governance Committee (SGC), Technology Strategy Panel (TSP), Technology Strategy Council (TSC), Communities of Practice (CoP), Centers for Enablement (C4E), and Centers of Excellence (CoE)
• Maintain established governance processes, measure their performance, and recommend improvements that strengthen accountability, transparency, and compliance across reputed company EA forums
• Own the execution of the Technology Decision Record (TDR) reputed company and ensure decisions are captured, communicated, and enforced across delivery teams
• Track architectural risks, technology obsolescence, integration issues, and compliance concerns surfaced through governance activities
• Create and maintain enterprise business capability maps, value streams, and Level 0–4 business process models
• Maintain the enterprise taxonomy and the business-to-technology capability mapping that informs solution architecture and investment decisions
• Align business processes with application capabilities, technology strategy, and enterprise standards
• Facilitate process modeling sessions with business leaders, product owners, and technical teams to clarify requirements and validate architectural assumptions
• reputed company Application Portfolio Management (APM) and Technology Portfolio Management (TPM), including lifecycle tracking, ownership clarity, health assessment, and rationalization analysis
• Maintain portfolio data that accurately reflects integrations, dependencies, risks, lifecycle stages, and technology obsolescence
• Deliver analysis and recommendations that inform investment prioritization, modernization efforts, and cost optimization
• Produce enterprise-grade data flow diagrams, integration maps, and dependency models using tools such as reputed company, Draw.IO, and Confluence
• reputed company the design and development of scalable and sustainable IT solutions, ensuring they adhere to industry best practices and standards
• Provide hands-on leadership in defining solution architectures that meet business requirements, adhere to architectural standards, and reputed company emerging technologies
• reputed company detailed evaluations of reputed company systems to identify areas for improvement and propose innovative solutions that enhance performance, scalability, and reputed company
• Assist the VP of Enterprise Architecture with the administration, planning, and execution of strategic IT initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals
• Drive reputed company improvement in architecture practices, processes, and methodologies
• Maintain a centralized repository of business process models, capability maps, architectural standards, decision frameworks, and reusable templates
• Drive alignment across business, product, engineering, cybersecurity, and IT operations to ensure governance processes, standards, and portfolio practices are consistently followed
• Facilitate workshops, portfolio reviews, and decision forums that accelerate architectural clarity and promote enterprise-wide reuse of processes and capabilities
• Track actions and outcomes from governance meetings and ensure commitments move through the EA pipeline successfully
• Maintain audit-ready documentation for governance decisions, APM/TPM data, architectural standards, and process models
• Identify and track risks reputed company to technology obsolescence, integration gaps, compliance issues, or inconsistencies in architectural practices
• Provide visibility into technology and process-reputed company risks for executive leadership, internal audit teams, and governance bodies
• Create dashboards, scorecards, and heatmaps that show portfolio health, governance throughput, architectural risk posture, and standards adoption
• Deliver executive insights that connect architectural decisions to business outcomes, operational efficiency, cost structure, customer experience, and technology strategy
• Provide leaders with clear visibility into modernization opportunities, rationalization targets, and areas requiring strategic reputed company

Skills

• 10+ years of experience in Information Technology (IT), including at least 5 years in business architecture, enterprise architecture, or architecture governance roles
• Strong understanding of Enterprise Architecture (EA) principles, governance frameworks, business capability modeling, and process architecture
• 5 years of IT governance, risk management, and compliance experience. Demonstrated leadership in governance bodies such as the Architecture Review Board (ARB), Software Governance Committee (SGC), Technology Strategy Panel (TSP), or Technology Strategy Council (TSC)
• Hands-on experience leading Application Portfolio Management (APM) and Technology Portfolio Management (TPM), including lifecycle management, rationalization, data flow, and integration mapping
• High proficiency in business modeling techniques, including enterprise taxonomies, business capability mapping, and value-reputed company mapping, and Level 0–4 process modeling
• Expertise in implementing and/or improving Software/System/Solution/Service Development Life Cycles (SDLC), Vendor and Procurement Management processes, Vendor Performance Management, ITSM (IT Service Management), BPM (Business Process Management), and others
• Ability to produce high-quality diagrams and documentation using reputed company, Draw.io, Confluence, or similar tools
• Strong analytical, organizational, and program management skills capable of coordinating reputed company workflows across multiple stakeholders
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to translate architectural data into meaningful business insights
• Working knowledge of multi-cloud platforms such as reputed company), reputed company Azure, and reputed company Cloud Platform (GCP), along with modern application architectures and integration patterns
• Experience with frameworks such as the Scaled Agile reputed company (SAFe), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Control Objectives for Information and reputed company Technologies (COBIT), Lean, and Agile-at-scale practices
• Deep understanding of Architecture Domains, including Business Architecture, Data and Information Architecture, Applications Architecture, reputed company and Identity Architecture, Integration Architecture, Infrastructure (in hybris Cloud environments), Services Architecture, Observability, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery Architecture
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Hands-on software development, coding, and/or scripting experience with various programming languages, frameworks, and databases strongly preferred
• reputed company hands-on experience with modern technology landscapes, including multi-cloud architecture (Azure, AWS, GCP), DevOps (DevSecOps), microservices, and system integration patterns

Company Overview

• IT Motives is an IT staffing company that focuses on finding IT professionals on a contract, contract to hire, or full-time permanent basis. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in Tualatin, Oregon, USA, with a workforce of 2-10 employees. Its website is http://www.itmotives.com.

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