Lead Enterprise Architect

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Job Description

The Lead Enterprise Architect will establish and govern a comprehensive enterprise API ecosystem by bringing together API providers and consumers through a unified, business-aligned API catalog. This role ensures effective lifecycle management, promotes reuse, and drives consistency across all enterprise integrations while enabling AI-driven and agentic capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Define, evolve, and promote enterprise API architecture, design patterns, and standards, including transition and target-state architectures. Lead enterprise-wide API governance, including intake, design review, lifecycle management, and compliance enforcement.

Partner with architecture, engineering, security, data, and business teams to drive adoption of API standards and reusable integration patterns. Build and scale enterprise API platforms enabling federated development, developer self-service, and catalog-driven discovery.

Develop AI-enabled governance capabilities, including automation, AI-ready API design, and gap detection across the API lifecycle.

Define and implement reference architectures for modern integration patterns, including: Event-driven architectures Microservices integration LLM integration, RAG, and vector data platforms Architect and operationalize agentic ecosystems, including orchestration frameworks and MCP-based integrations.

Establish governance metrics and KPIs, including API adoption, lifecycle maturity, reuse, performance, and compliance. Design and deliver executive dashboards and reporting on API ecosystem health and integration outcomes.

Lead prototyping, proof-of-concepts, and evaluation of emerging technologies in APIs, AI, and integration. Improve engineering velo