Senior Director, IT Enterprise Architecture

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Planned Parenthood Action Fund seek a hands-on and strategic Senior Director, Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture. This role reports to the Vice President, Tech Strategy and Architecture in the Information Technology department of PPFA.

Purpose

The role of the Enterprise Architect is to enable business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization.

• Provides overall direction, guidance, and definition of IT architecture to effectively support the PPFA business strategy.
• Supports all enterprise architectural disciplines (Data, Application, Infrastructures) and champions architectural initiatives.
• Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes.
• Leads programs to develop, maintain, and govern the enterprise architecture across the organization.
• Leads the EA review board and ensures that the solutions are compliant with target-state architecture models.
• Aligns architecture strategy with business goals and leads teams in developing technology plans.
• Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Directs the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends.
• Key partner role with technology services to ensure all tech services are scalable and aligned with strategic plans.
• Advises on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities.
• Owns and leads enterprise initiatives to define, design, and implement solutions, including reference architectures, estimates, and costs.

Engagement

• Partners with InfoSec Enterprise Architecture to ensure end-to-end architecture standards and design principles are in place.
• Partners across the Information Technology and Information Security organization to provide strategic and operational direction.
• Works with the Tech Business Partner team, application owners, and business leaders to understand business requirements.
• Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment.
• Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture.
• Partners with the IT/IS communication lead on the development and execution of communication and education plans for EA capabilities.
• Partners with AppDev and Enterprise Application Systems' solution architects and application owners to ensure enterprise direction and standards align with specific application solution architecture.

Architect

• Analyzes the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Ensures the quality documentation of all architecture design and analysis work.
• Oversees the evaluation and selection of hardware and software product standards.
• Consults with application engineering and development projects to fit systems to architecture.
• Consults with infrastructure development projects to fit the infrastructure to the architecture.
• Owns and leads enterprise initiatives to define, design, and implement cloud-based solutions.
• Leads and mentors solution architects, engineers, managers, business teams, and individuals.
• Acts as a subject matter expert on cloud best practices within and outside the organization.

Lead

• Leads the creation and evolution of the EA function.
• Assesses and communicates the achievement and impact of the EA.
• Identifies organizational needs (financial, skill, and process resources) and the structures and cultural change necessary to support the EA.
• Builds and drives the maturity of Enterprise Architecture capabilities.
• Promotes EA to the organization, including IT and business leaders.
• Responsible for the overall training and development of the architecture resources.

Govern

• Leads and facilitates the creation of governing principles to guide enterprise information, technology, and solution decision-making.
• Ensures Information Security Architecture is foundational to all solution designs.
• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the EA capabilities.
• Designs and directs the EA governance structure and compliance activities.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, system analysis, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 12+ years of IT and business/industry work experience, including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations.
• Leadership experience in cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders.
• Requires exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture, business re-engineering principles and processes, and basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting.
• Excellent organizational, collaborative leadership, decision-making, and communication skills.
• Ability to be assertive and influence across all levels.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to perform critical conversations.
• Excellent business acumen and sound business judgment.
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly language.

Additional Information

• Travel: 0-10%, NYC/DC-based - hybrid schedule of 2 days/week onsite.
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America is an equal employment opportunity employer.