Hybrid Senior Enterprise Architect

at Global Credit Union

• Job title: Senior Enterprise Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $109,361 - $191,554 per year
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Anchorage, United States

About the role

• Senior Enterprise Architect providing strategic leadership for the creation and governance of enterprise architectures. Leading strategies, roadmaps, and standards to align technology investments with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Drive enterprise ‑ wide transformation by providing strategic leadership for the creation, evolution, and governance of enterprise architectures, programs, and policies.
• Lead the development of architecture strategies, roadmaps, and standards that guide technology investment decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and enabling impactful, future ‑ focused business and technology outcomes.
• Support the organization in achieving key business outcomes such as revenue growth, cost optimization, and risk mitigation.
• Build strong relationships with business and IT stakeholders to communicate EA value and guide delivery of EA services.
• Mature the EA practice into an internal management consultancy and expand EA service offerings.
• Develop future ‑ state and transition architectures to guide migration from current state to target state.
• Help balance organizational agility and risk by communicating EA positions to business and IT leaders.
• Lead development and implementation of enterprise architecture roadmaps.
• Scan emerging technologies and business trends to identify disruptive opportunities and provide guidance.
• Lead a collaborative federation of architects to ensure proposed solutions align with target architectures and roadmaps.
• Develop and apply architectural standards, minimal viable architectures, and EA governance aligned with business strategy and corporate policies.
• Provide actionable recommendations using structured decision analysis across technical, financial, risk, and execution factors.
• Facilitate discussions regarding enterprise ‑ wide risks and implications of architectural and business decisions.
• Demonstrate leadership, collaboration, communication excellence, and the ability to navigate organizational dynamics.

Requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, systems analysis, or a related field; or equivalent experience preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management, or operations in a multitier environment.
• Demonstrated experience across multiple domains, including cloud, networking, application development, or automation.
• Strong leadership skills with exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Strong consulting skills: targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management, and business development.
• Organizationally savvy, with situational and contextual intelligence to navigate enterprise politics.
• Knowledge of all components of enterprise architecture, business and IT principles, and processes.
• Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills.

Benefits

• Short-term and long-term incentives
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plan that has HSA and FSA options
• 401(k) plan with a 5% match
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Life and disability coverage
• Voluntary cash benefits for accident, hospitalization and critical illness
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Generous leave programs to include Paid Time Off accrual, Paid Sick Leave, Paid Holidays