Hiring: Principal Enterprise Architect Company: Guardian Life Location: Holmdel, NJ Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 15:43:23 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Azure, GCP, SAFe About the job Experience: •Operational familiarity with AI-enabled enterprise capabilities, automation, and emerging technology trends. Required Skills: •Enterprise Architecture Leadership •Actively facilitate and support Head of Enterprise Architecture in developing and evolving enterprise architecture strategy, principles, standards, and target-state roadmaps. •Define and maintain architecture perspectives across business, application, data, integration, cloud, platform, security, and AI-related capabilities as applicable. •Own enterprise standards, target state, governance, exceptions, material technology decision frameworks •Translate enterprise strategy and target-state direction into practical guidance for domain architecture and engineering teams. •Promote alignment across business units, shared services, and technology domains. •Provide architecture leadership for major strategic initiatives, modernization programs, and enterprise-impacting technology decisions. •Assess architecture options and recommend solutions that balance business value, cost, risk, resilience, time to market, and long-term maintainability. Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field. •12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, domain architecture, or senior technology strategy roles. •Deep cross-domain expertise spanning applications, integration, data, AI, cloud, security, and platform strategy. •Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority. •Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills. •Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, methods, and governance practices. •Broad understanding of enterprise technology domains and cross-domain dependencies. •Demonstrated capacity to develop target-state architecture and pragmatic transition approaches. •Strong business acumen and ability to connect architecture decisions to business outcomes. •Demonstrated capacity to assess tradeoffs among speed, cost, quality, risk, and strategic fit. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!