Enterprise Architect

Key Responsibilities1. Technical Architecture Discovery & Current-State Assessment

• Partner with application owners, infrastructure teams, data teams, cybersecurity, developers, vendors, project teams, and business SMEs to understand current-state technology environments.
• Document applications, interfaces, APIs, data flows, integrations, databases, infrastructure dependencies, hosting models, middleware, environments, and ownership models.
• Translate fragmented operational and technical knowledge into structured architecture diagrams, models, repositories, and decision-support artifacts.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, lifecycle issues, duplicate capabilities, integration pain points, and opportunities for standardization or modernization.
• Maintain technical architecture views that connect applications, data, integrations, platforms, infrastructure, business capabilities, and operational dependencies.

2. Solution & Technology Assessment

• Assess proposed solutions, system changes, application upgrades, vendor platforms, integrations, and technology introductions from an enterprise architecture perspective.
• Evaluate impacts across applications, integrations, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations, supportability, scalability, and lifecycle management.
• Support architecture governance forums by providing technical analysis, options, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.
• Contribute to architecture decision records, technical standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns.
• Challenge solution designs constructively when they create unnecessary complexity, duplication, risk, or misalignment with enterprise direction.

3. Application Architecture & Portfolio Visibility

• Maintain visibility of the enterprise application landscape, including application purpose, ownership, business capability alignment, integrations, lifecycle status, business criticality, technical fit, and risk profile.
• Support application rationalization by identifying redundant, obsolete, underutilized, high-risk, or non-standard applications.
• Analyze impacts of system replacements, upgrades, consolidations, integrations, and new application implementations.
• Support roadmap planning for enterprise platforms, ERP-related systems, operational applications, and business-critical technologies.

4. Data & Integration Architecture

• Document key data sources, system-of-record relationships, data movement, interfaces, APIs, middleware, file exchanges, ETL/ELT processes, and integration platforms.
• Support data governance by improving visibility into data ownership, lineage, metadata, dependencies, and control points.
• Identify manual handoffs, duplicate data entry, data synchronization risks, integration gaps, and opportunities for automation.
• Contribute to future-state integration and information architecture patterns.

5. Technology Architecture & Platform Alignment

• Maintain visibility of infrastructure platforms, hosting models, databases, cloud services, networks, identity services, middleware, environments, and core technology dependencies.

6. EA Tooling, Repository Enablement & AutomationRequired Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in IT architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, integration architecture, infrastructure architecture, technical leadership, systems engineering, or enterprise technology roles.
• Prior hands-on experience designing, supporting, integrating, assessing, or modernizing enterprise applications, platforms, APIs, infrastructure, or technical solutions.
• Strong understanding of enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, data flows, databases, middleware, infrastructure concepts, hosting models, cloud platforms, security considerations, and technology dependencies.
• Experience gathering information from technical and business SMEs and converting it into structured documentation, diagrams, architecture models, repositories, standards, or roadmaps.
• Experience supporting solution assessments, technical evaluations, impact analysis, architecture reviews, or technology/vendor evaluations.

MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class otherwise protected under applicable human rights legislation. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled and all other qualified applicants