Principal Architect- Enterprise Architecture
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$134.3K - $231.7K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Architect- Enterprise Architecture
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
Role Description As a Principal Architect- Enterprise Architecture, you’ll be part of our Information Technology Team working as a remote employee. The Enterprise Architect serves as a strategic technology partner to the business, responsible for translating strategic opportunities into actionable, business-aligned technology strategies. This role ensures that technology investments deliver measurable value and support the organization’s long-term objectives. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Integration, ERP, Data, AI, and related domains, and excels at bridging business needs with innovative technology solutions. - Partner with business leaders and IT to understand strategic objectives and translate them into actionable architecture artifacts (capability maps, value streams, operating models, and roadmaps). - Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework, ensuring alignment between business goals and IT strategy. - Support portfolio planning by linking initiatives to capabilities and strategic outcomes. - Track and communicate the value delivered by technology initiatives, using metrics and KPIs to demonstrate business impact. - Facilitate cross-functional workshops and architecture reviews to drive alignment and decision making. - Establish and maintain architectural standards, templates, and governance practices. - Promote application, integration, data architecture strategy, including data governance, quality, security. - Lead the adoption and integration of AI/ML technologies across capabilities, ensuring responsible and ethical use of AI. - Interact with various business and IT stakeholders throughout the planning, PMO, SDLC, and Service Management processes. - Lead the complexity reduction agenda by enabling alignment to standards. - Work with the BUs, responsible for retirement of obsolete applications and technologies. - Incorporate domain-specific strategies into the future state BU app portfolio. - Facilitate the effective integration of frameworks and corresponding processes with other related business and IT processes and patterns from an architectural standpoint. - Lead/facilitate the creation of governing principles to guide information, technology, and solution decision making for the enterprise. - Oversee development and maintenance of conceptual, logical, and physical application architecture. Qualifications - Ability to tie together solutions across systems. - Business acumen in multiple capability areas (Finance, Supply Chain, Enterprise Services), preferably in the manufacturing industry. - Business process modeling. - Facilitation. - Knowledge of required technologies (including 3rd party solutions). - Understanding of future technologies. - Project & Product Delivery Model knowledge. - Strong understanding of value tracking methodologies and experience with business case development. - Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills. Requirements - Undergraduate degree and 16+ years relevant experience, or Graduate degree and 12+ years relevant experience. - Additional training or certification in organization change management highly desirable. - Previous experience as a successful enterprise architect highly desirable. - 7 to 10 years of experience in at least two IT disciplines (such as technical architecture, solution architecture, network management, application development, middleware design, information analysis, database management, or operations management) in a heterogeneous environment — or five years of experience in solution architecture, business analysis, or business strategic planning. Benefits - Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being. - Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs. - Career paths aren’t linear; grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths. - Access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal. - Experience an awesome place to work, with mutual respect and appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences. - Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.
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