Enterprise Architect, Tech Advisory
At West Monroe, our people are our business.
We pride ourselves on bringing a different mindset to consulting—and that takes a different approach: highly collaborative, flexible, and tenacious.
Our people-first culture is core to our identity. It’s something we care about, and something we strive to enrich and preserve. No hierarchies. No siloes. No egos. Just smart ideas, unique perspectives, and the drive to make an impact for our clients.
We also know that the best outcomes for both our people and our clients result from including diverse perspectives at the table. That’s why inclusion & diversity is one of our core values.
Every day our clients rely on us to help them tackle their greatest challenges, by strategically deploying technology through a business-focused and industry-specific lens. We bring together both the right knowledge and the right approach, so that they can capitalize on opportunities and deliver real results. That takes the right team. And that’s where you come in.
Ready to thrive in the next step on your career journey?
West Monroe is seeking an Enterprise Architect to focus on our Technology Advisory offering. Our Technology Advisory offering helps our clients define their technology strategy, assess solution options, and devise architectural solutions that help them both achieve strategic goals and meet operational requirements. The enterprise architect will work directly with client stakeholders across various industries as a member of our Software Engineering practice. As a technology agnostic firm, they will also have the opportunity to continuously expand their skillset while working with cutting edge tools, platforms, and frameworks.
Responsibilities:
- Interact with key client stakeholders (EA, Tech Directors etc.) to understand their vision, gather requirements, and offer relevant insight based on experience in the field
- Work in a collaborative team setting to support our clients and help solve their business problems through analysis of existing systems, applications, and processes
- Define enterprise, domain and platform target state architectures and roadmaps
- Drive the linkage between business strategy and technology (and vice versa), to deliver impactful outcomes
- Help clients understand the ‘art of the possible’ with innovative and disruptive technology
- Design innovative technology solution architectures across large programs to solve complex business problems
- Shape, define and provide technology leadership on large scale transformation programs, acting as overall program architect or workstream manager
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred, or equivalent experience required
- Consulting firm/industry experience preferred
- 4-7 years of Technology strategy and architecture experience preferably in Financial Services, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Energy and Utility, C&IP or Software / High-tech industries
- Displays different approaches to architecture governance and innovative ways of working
- Awareness of specialist architect domains (e.g., application, security, infrastructure/cloud, digital, data/information, integration, operations, DevOps, etc.)
- Stays aware of major technology trends, innovations and their practical (or potential) application
- Awareness of architectural patterns, styles, and respective tradeoffs
- Comfortable in the design and delivery of contemporary layered application/architecture stacks
- Understanding of standard data (interchange) formats and application integration techniques
- Preferred background/skills in digital, big data, customer engagement, and common core systems and platforms
- Well-versed in contemporary cloud stacks/services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- Excellent collaboration, organizational, and verbal/written communication skills
- Willingness to travel for out-of-town client engagements
Ready to get started? Join our team and make an impact.
To learn more about inclusion and diversity at West Monroe, visit www.wmp.com/inclusion.