Director, Enterprise Architecture; IT

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the enterprise authority for architecture across infrastructure, cloud, networking, applications, ERP, and platform services.
• Define and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and approved design patterns.
• Establish and govern formal architecture review and approval processes for all significant technology initiatives.
• Own and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap, ensuring alignment with business strategy and long‑term modernization goals.
• Act as the final architectural escalation point for complex, cross domain design decisions.
• Ensure architectural consistency, resilience, security, and long term technical integrity across all enterprise platforms.
• Serve as the authoritative enterprise architect for OCI.
• Design and review OCI tenancy models, compartment strategies, IAM policies, and security zone implementations.
• Define enterprise standards for OCI networking, connectivity, and hybrid integration.
• Architect and review high availability, disaster recovery, and multi‑region OCI designs.
• Provide architectural oversight for OCI services including Exadata, OCVS, Compute, Storage (ZFS/Object), and hybrid cloud integrations.
• Establish and govern OCI automation and infrastructure as code standards using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines, Network, Connectivity & Zero Trust Architecture.
• Own enterprise network architecture standards and lead all network and connectivity design reviews.
• Architect hybrid and global connectivity across on premises environments, OCI, SaaS providers, and external partners.
• Define enterprise patterns for segmentation, routing, resiliency, performance, and availability.
• Define and govern Zero Trust architecture, including identity aware access, least privilege connectivity, and continuous verification.
• Architect and review ZTNA, SSE, and SASE based client access models, including integrations with Cloudflare, Zscaler, or equivalent edge security platforms.
• Establish standards for secure remote user, branch, and third party access using edge based policy enforcement.

• Serve as the enterprise architecture authority for application platforms, middleware, and ERP systems.
• Lead architecture and design reviews for Oracle E Business Suite (EBS) environments, including scalability, security, integrations, and lifecycle management.
• Define enterprise standards for application hosting models, platform services, and integration patterns.
• Guide EBS modernization and coexistence strategies, including integration with OCI and other enterprise platforms.
• Ensure application and ERP architectures align with approved enterprise network, cloud, and security standards.
• Embed security by design principles across infrastructure, network, application, ERP, and cloud architectures.
• Define and govern enterprise Zero Trust architecture standards aligned to industry frameworks (e.g., NIST, CISA).
• Establish architecture patterns for identity centric access, continuous authentication and authorization, and least privilege enforcement.
• Ensure architectural alignment with ZTNA, SSE, and edge security platforms across user, device, and application access paths.
• Enforce architectural compliance through governance forums and formal design review processes.

• Communicate architectural decisions, risks, and trade offs clearly to executive and senior IT leadership.
• Serve as a trusted architectural advisor to technology and business stakeholders.
• Influence outcomes through expertise, governance, and architectural authority rather than direct operational control.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience, with 12 + years of leadership experience in enterprise‑level architecture.
• Deep, hands‑on expertise in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including tenancy design, compartment strategy, IAM, security zones, and multi‑region high‑availability architectures.
• Proven authority in enterprise infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, ERP, and platform architecture, with a track record…