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Farmington Hills, MI. This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement. Currently 5 days of on‑site work per month are required.

The Lead Enterprise Architect is responsible for leading the development, adoption, and continuous improvement of enterprise architectural frameworks, standards, governance, and architectural artifacts across the organization. This role provides leadership to a team of architects and coordinates cross‑functional support of business and technology strategy with design and architectural views. It also translates MDT strategic direction into practical architectural roadmaps, implementation guidance, and measurable processes. The Lead Enterprise Architect will work closely with leadership, engineering teams, operations teams, security, and business stakeholders to ensure architecture decisions are actionable, aligned, and sustainable.

• Leads the enterprise architecture function and provides day‑to‑day leadership, direction and mentoring to a team of architects.
• Establishes, maintains, and evolves the company’s enterprise architecture framework, standards, governance processes, and architectural repository.
• Aligns IT strategy, architectural direction, and technical planning with the company’s business goals and operating model.
• Provides long‑term strategic responsibility for architecture direction across infrastructure, applications, cloud, platform, network, security, data, and emerging technologies.
• Creates practical roadmaps and transition architectures that support implementation of target state capabilities.
• Promotes shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flow.
• Ensures that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from business and IT strategies.
• Manages risks associated with information and IT assets through appropriate standards, guidelines, and security policies.
• Provides direct leadership in the development of policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation, and use of Information Technology within the enterprise.
• Establishes standardized methods for review, documentation, and design across technology domains.
• Reviews new products, services, platforms, and technical initiatives with emphasis on documenting their impact in current architecture, operations, security, supportability, and total cost of ownership.
• Leads architectural assessments and design reviews for enterprise technology solutions.
• Conducts proof of concept, lab review, and validation activities to confirm architecture designs.
• Creates and maintains architecture artifacts to support planning, decision‑making, implementation, transition, and operational support.
• Develops current‑state, future‑state, and transitional architecture views that support business and technical planning.
• Defines and enforces architectural standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns to improve consistency and reduce delivery risk.
• Follows and promotes best practices in modeling standards, documentation, and architecture principles across the team.
• Leads the development of team processes including intake, review, prioritization, exception handling, and post‑implementation evaluation.
• Leads a team of architects through mentoring, work prioritization, and performance guidance.
• Builds strong partnerships with engineering, operations, security, application, and business teams.
• Ensures team services are well coordinated with other corporate and technology functions.
• Keeps senior management informed of architectural direction, standards adoption, progress toward established objectives and significant risks/issues.
• Facilitates architectural review boards, technical working group sessions, cross‑functional design discussions, and governance committees.
• Translates complex technical concepts into clear business and operational goals for stakeholders with varying degrees of technical knowledge.
• Assists team and project teams with architectural guidance, standards interpretation, and implementation planning.
• Promotes organizational maturity in architectural practices, governance, and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Stays informed of trends and changes in the information services field.
• Identifies opportunities to improve architecture processes, governance maturity, and technical standardization across the enterprise.
• Supports the organization in evaluating emerging technologies and evolving business needs with a practical and risk‑aware architecture approach.
• Embraces all other duties as assigned.
• Works 75% doing the work and 25% leading people.
• Oversees a small team.
• Primarily responsible for day‑to‑day operations within a team.
• Hands‑on with technical or project work.
• Focuses on tactical execution and task‑level support.
• Provides direction, mentoring, and removes blockers.
• Participates in performance evaluations.
• Approves PTO and oversees team coverage.
• Acts as a peer leader for the team.

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience and training.
• Architecture‑related certification or framework training preferred (TOGAF/SAFe or equivalent).
• Seven or more (7+) years of experience working in a 24×7 operational environment.
• Five or more (5+) years of architectural level experience, systems design, or enterprise/platform architecture experience.
• Two or more (2+) years of leadership experience, team‑lead experience, or equivalent decision‑making authority.
• Experience establishing or maturing architecture standards, governance processes, frameworks, or documentation practices.
• Experience leading cross‑functional technology initiatives and influencing technical direction across multiple teams.

• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, governance models, and operating practices.
• Strong knowledge of design and architectural patterns across infrastructure, platform, cloud, network, and application ecosystems.
• Strong business analysis skills and experience, including development of business vision and strategies, functional decomposition, requirements capture, and process modeling.
• Experience developing architectural standards, reference architectures, roadmaps, and implementation guidance.
• Experience with structured approaches to system design, implementation planning, and technology governance.
• Experience with “System of Systems” architecture development, partitioning of functionality among platforms, services, systems and identifying interoperability concerns.
• Working knowledge across multiple technology domains including Cloud, Networking, SaaS, Virtualization, AI, security, and emerging technologies.
• Strong analytical/technical knowledge pertaining to decision analysis.
• Knowledge of Change Management practices, operational support considerations, resiliency planning, and support model impacts of architectural decisions.

• No hazardous or significantly unpleasant conditions (such as typical office).
• Additional hours, including Saturday/Sunday support, as required.
• Occasional overnight travel for training, conferences, and clients as required.
• Long duration of computer workstation usage.
• On‑call responsibilities, available 24/7 via phone or pager.

The compensation is based on experience and offers a base salary plus bonus opportunities. We offer BCBS benefits, dental, disability and life insurance at 90 days and 401(k) after one year.

Member Driven Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We hire individuals on the basis of ability, experience, education, intelligence, and character. Member Driven Technologies does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, sex, religion, age, marital status, national origin, handicap, citizenship status or any other characteristic to the full extent of all applicable laws. Our equal employment opportunity policy applies to all our employment practices, including hiring, training, advancement, discipline, and compensation.