Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture & Transformation

At Ensono, our Purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things!  We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.

We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business. These five traits are the key to achieving our purpose:

Honesty, Reliability, Curiosity, Collaboration, and Passion.

About the role and what you'll be doing: 

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture & Transformation is responsible for leading and advancing Ensono's Transformation Architecture Office across Transformation & Transition (T&T), Migration & Onboarding (M&O), Public Cloud, Enterprise Solutions Architecture, High-Level Design (HLD), and Low-Level Design (LLD) functions.  This leadership role is accountable for the overall health, maturity, effectiveness, and strategic direction of the architecture discipline. The Senior Director will develop and lead a high-performing team of architects, establish architecture standards and governance, and drive alignment across presales, delivery, engineering, operations, and product organizations. 

As a senior technical and business leader, this individual will serve as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders and clients, ensuring architecture strategies are translated into successful business outcomes while enabling scalable, supportable, and profitable solutions.

We want all new Associates to succeed in their roles at Ensono. That's why we've outlined the job requirements below. To be considered for this role, it's important that you meet all Required Qualifications. If you do not meet all of the Preferred Qualifications, we still encourage you to apply. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Organizational Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop the Transformation Architecture Office, including Technical Architects, LLD Architects, Migration Architects, Cloud Architects, Enterprise Solution Architects, and Architecture Consultants.
• Establish the vision, strategy, structure, and operating model for the architecture organization.
• Build architecture career paths, succession planning, technical development programs, and mentoring frameworks.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with senior leadership to align architecture priorities with business objectives and organizational strategy.

Architecture Strategy & Governance

• Establish architecture standards, methodologies, governance processes, review boards, and quality controls across the organization.
• Drive consistency, reuse, and continuous improvement across architecture deliverables and practices.
• Provide executive oversight across the full architecture lifecycle from target-state architecture through HLD, LLD, migration design, operational readiness, and ongoing optimization.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex transformation and modernization initiatives.

Client Advisory & Business Impact

• Build trusted relationships with client executives, technology leaders, and key stakeholders.
• Advise clients on cloud modernization, workload transformation, migration strategy, resiliency, operational readiness, and technology roadmaps.
• Partner with Sales Architecture and delivery teams to improve solution quality, reduce risk, and enhance client outcomes. 
• Advocate for client needs while balancing operational, technical, and commercial objectives.

Product, Engineering & Innovation Leadership

• Partner closely with Product Management, Product Development, Platform Engineering, Service Engineering, and Cloud Engineering teams to align architecture strategy with product and technology roadmaps.
• Create strong feedback loops between architecture, delivery, operations, and engineering organizations.
• Champion modern architectural practices, automation, AI-enabled capabilities, and emerging technologies that improve delivery effectiveness and client outcomes.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted architecture practices that improve discovery, design quality, knowledge sharing, documentation, risk analysis, and overall architect productivity.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 15+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Engineering, Consulting, or Technology Transformation leadership.
• Proven experience leading architecture organizations and multidisciplinary architecture teams.
• Deep technical expertise across public cloud, private cloud, infrastructure modernization, migration, resiliency, backup and recovery, networking, and operational architecture.
• Experience working directly with Product Development, Platform Engineering, and Engineering leadership teams.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale transformation and modernization initiatives.
• Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder management, and consulting skills.
• Proven ability to develop talent, build high-performing teams, and lead through influence across organizational boundaries.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Enterprise Architecture certifications such as TOGAF or equivalent.
• Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud professional certifications.
• ITIL, PMP, SAFe, or related certifications.
• Experience supporting highly regulated industries, including healthcare and financial services.

SUCCESS MEASURES

• Mature and scale the Transformation Architecture Office into a strategic organizational capability.
• Improve alignment between presales, architecture, migration, engineering, and operations teams.
• Increase architecture quality, consistency, reuse, and governance effectiveness.
• Accelerate adoption of AI-enabled architecture practices and modern engineering approaches.
• Improve client outcomes, delivery predictability, operational readiness, and overall business performance.
• Strengthen Ensono's architecture leadership, technical capability, and trusted advisor presence across the client lifecycle.

Why Ensono?

Ensono is a place to make better happen – for our clients and for your career. You can do great things through innovation or collaboration, by learning or volunteering, or to promote diversity and inclusion. You can do great things for your own health or for a healthier planet. Whatever it means to you to do great things we want Ensono to be the place you can do it. 

We are a client-facing business, but we do encourage clients to allow us to work remotely most of the time so if you are not required to be on a client site, you can choose to work from home or in our Ensono offices.

Some of our benefits include:

• Unlimited Paid Days Off
• Three health plan options
• 401k with company match
• Eligibility for dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D coverage, and flexible spending accounts
• Family Forming Benefit including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy reimbursement
• Paid childbearing and paternal leave
• Education Reimbursement, Student Loan Assistance or 529 College Funding
• Sabbatical leave
• Wellness program
• Flexible work schedule

As of the date of this posting, a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this role is $180,000 to $242,000 annually based on a full-time schedule. Please note that placement in the range may vary based on numerous factors including but not limited to skills, experience, internal equity, and business needs. In addition to base salary, other compensation programs, depending on eligibility, include an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance and an equity grant under our Associate Equity Appreciation Program.

Ensono is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to providing equal employment to our Associates and building a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Pay transparency nondiscrimination statement/posting OFCCP’s pay transparency policy can be found on OFCCP’s website.

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