Senior Director leading Enterprise Architecture at Fortrea to define technology strategy and governance. Overseeing architectural alignment and mentoring a global team for operational excellence.
Responsibilities
Define Fortrea’s multi-year enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and reference models across infrastructure, cloud, data, integration, cybersecurity, workplace, and applications.
Translate business strategy into technology roadmaps that enable operational excellence, clinical development capabilities, and future-ready IT platforms.
Establish and maintain Fortrea’s enterprise architecture repository, principles, and guardrails.
Own, publish, and maintain enterprise technology standards, approved patterns, and prohibited components.
Lead the formal exception-governance process, ensuring risk, licensing, regulatory, and financial considerations are properly evaluated.
Drive wide adoption of architectural guardrails and ensure consistency across all business units and technical domains.
Chair the Architecture Review Board (ARB) and serve as Fortrea’s authoritative voice on architectural feasibility, compliance, integration, and alignment to enterprise strategy.
Ensure timely, robust architectural assessments for new initiatives, major platform changes, and vendor-driven solutions.
Provide transparent decision-making, risk identification, and clear rationale for approvals, conditions, or escalations.
Ensure all technology domains operate cohesively, eliminating fragmentation and enabling scalable, integrated end-to-end solutions.
Oversee architectural alignment across shared services, platforms, and enterprise capabilities (e.g., identity, networking, data, cloud, automation, observability).
Drive modernization and rationalization initiatives to reduce technical debt, simplify the environment, and improve performance and resilience.
Partner with Data & Integration Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Hosting teams to ensure data flows, integration platforms, and cloud/hosting strategies align with enterprise guardrails.
Champion security-by-design, privacy-by-design, and compliance as core architectural principles.
Promote adoption of modern integration patterns (APIs, eventing, managed services) that enable scalability and efficiency.
Serve as trusted advisor to the VP FTSS, CIO, and senior business leaders on technology strategy, architectural risks, and modernization investments.
Partner with Product, Engineering, Clinical Technologies, and Corporate Functions to ensure architectural considerations are embedded early in planning processes.
Represent Enterprise Architecture in executive reviews, portfolio governance, and strategic planning forums.
Lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing global Enterprise Architecture team spanning enterprise, solution, domain, and security architecture competencies.
Build a culture of architectural excellence, shared accountability, and collaboration across architecture communities and platform teams.
Establish operating rhythms, EA communities of practice, and standards for architectural artifacts and engagement models.
Requirements
At least 10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture or a related field.
Proven leadership and management experience in IT strategy and enterprise architecture.
Extensive experience in implementing enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF.
Established track record of successfully implementing complex IT projects from ideation to deployment within set timelines and budgets.
Experience in governing the architecture process with cross-functional IT teams.
Experience in organizational change management, innovation, and technological transformation.
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