Hybrid Director, Enterprise Architecture

at NMDP

• Job title: Director, Enterprise Architecture
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, ERP, Oracle
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Minneapolis, United States

About the role

• Director of Enterprise Architecture leading NMDP’s technology strategy and aligning investments with goals. Overseeing enterprise architects to ensure a coherent, future-ready technology landscape.

Responsibilities

• The Director of Enterprise Architecture leads the development and evolution of NMDP’s enterprise-wide technology blueprint and multi-year roadmap.
• This role oversees a team of enterprise architects, providing strategic guidance and solution leadership across all major technology initiatives.
• This leader partners closely with business leaders, product management, and IT teams to define and guide the future-state architecture, modernize core platforms, and solution design across the enterprise.
• Acting as a key strategic thought leader and influencer, the Director communicates complex architectural concepts in clear business terms.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships and drive adoption of architecture standards throughout the organization.
• Ensure that NMDP’s technology landscape is coherent, future-ready, and able to support enterprise growth, innovation, and operational excellence.
• Define and continuously evolve the enterprise architecture blueprint and multi-year roadmap in alignment with business strategy.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend modernization opportunities.
• Collaborate with solution architects to define scalable and adaptable enterprise solutions.
• Lead enterprise architecture governance, standards, and design reviews.
• Maintain expertise in emerging technologies and EA industry trends.

Requirements

• Experience architecting and integrating enterprise solutions on Salesforce and Oracle platforms (e.g., CRM, ERP, data, and workflow modernization) and aligning these platforms within a broader enterprise architecture and cloud strategy.
• Software development and testing methodologies along with experience in regulatory oversight is required.
• Solid understanding of operational processes and the ability to discuss technological terminology in business terms.
• Advanced knowledge supporting business capability development through application architecture.
• Strong understanding of current application technology trends, and overall IT industry trends and advanced knowledge of business, systems, and information modeling techniques.
• Advanced technical expertise in architectural design, development, and implementation with specialization in multiple technology disciplines, platforms, and applications.
• Expertise in IT business architecture including business process design and governance.
• Application of framework architecture, application servers, application security, distributed application security, database environment, data-driven application methodologies.
• Thorough understanding of the enterprise architectural blueprint requirements and the impact on business functions.
• Demonstrate effective organizational and cultural leadership to drive and implement major re-engineering efforts; strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skill; strong teamwork and collaboration across the organization; advanced planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Foster organization changes through multiple channels, influence at all levels, manage organization-wide change driven by significant innovation and remain neutral toward technology choices.
• Direct, lead and mentor project team/team members comprised of direct and indirect reports.
• Manage/support enterprise architecture roadmap.
• Apply knowledge of system integration and business process modeling.
• Demonstrate program implementation skills including project portfolio management, and the planning, reporting and directing the work of others across multiple initiatives.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or Engineering/Business with an emphasis in Information Technology. However, upon evaluation, equivalent related experience and/or education may be substituted for the degree requirement.
• 10+ years technical work experience in a software development environment which must include:
• 5+ years leading technical teams.
• 5+ years' experience as a Solution Architect or an Enterprise Architect and a minimum of 3 years as an Enterprise Architect with experience analyzing and creating artifacts describing the architecture from the business, information, application, and technology viewpoints.
• Demonstrated experience implementing solutions.
• Experience designing application architectures including both in-house and COTS (Commercial, off-the-shelf) solutions.
• Experience in establishing and executing multi-year application migration roadmaps.

Benefits

• NMDP offers regular, full-time employees medical, dental, vision, life and disability, accident/critical illness/hospital, well-being, legal, identity theft and pet benefits.
• Retirement, paid time off/holidays, leave and incentive plans are also offered to eligible employees.