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WHO WE ARE Elliott Davis pairs forward-thinking tax, assurance and consulting services with industry-leading workplace culture. Our nine offices — located in the fastest growing cities in the US — are built on a foundation of inclusivity, collaboration, and collective growth. We work daily to provide exceptional service to our people, customers, and our communities. Audit and assurance services are provided by Elliott Davis, LLC (doing business in NC and D.C. as Elliott Davis, PLLC), a licensed CPA firm.

Position Overview

The Director of Enterprise Architecture & Digital Enablement is responsible for establishing and leading Elliott Davis' enterprise architecture capability while serving as the firm’s principal architect and strategic transformation advisor. This is a hands‑on leadership role that combines business transformation, enterprise architecture, solution design, governance, modernization, and technology strategy. The Director will partner closely with firm leadership, service lines, operations, and technology teams to simplify processes, modernize platforms, standardize technology practices, and ensure investments are aligned to measurable business outcomes. The successful candidate will initially serve as an individual contributor while building the architecture capability, influencing solution delivery standards, mentoring technical resources, and establishing the frameworks needed to support future growth. Over time, this leader will help develop additional architecture and digital delivery capabilities while leveraging external partners and strategic vendors as extensions of the team. #LI-DL1

Why This Role Exists

Elliott Davis is positioning technology as a strategic business capability that enables growth, optimization, innovation, and client service excellence. To support this transformation, the firm requires a leader who can simplify an increasingly complex technology landscape, guide business modernization efforts, establish architecture discipline, and create a scalable foundation for automation, data, analytics, and AI capabilities. This role will help bridge the gap between business strategy and technology execution while ensuring the firm continues evolving toward a Human‑Led, AI‑Enabled Professional Services organization.

ResponsibilitiesEnterprise Architecture & Technology Strategy

• Establish and lead the firm’s architecture function.
• Support the enterprise technology roadmap.
• Create adaptive architecture standards, reference architectures, and governance processes.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and make strategic recommendations.
• Drive application rationalization, simplification, and modernization efforts.
• Reduce technical debt and improve long‑term platform sustainability.

Business Transformation & Process Modernization

• Partner with business leaders to understand operational challenges and opportunities.
• Facilitate process simplification, standardization, and modernization initiatives.
• Translate business objectives into scalable technology capabilities.
• Help define business cases, expected outcomes, and value realization measures.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to firm leadership on technology‑enabled transformation.

Digital Delivery & Solution Excellence

• Establish solution design and architecture review practices.
• Improve the consistency, scalability, and supportability of delivered solutions.
• Partner with product owners, project managers, developers, analysts, and business stakeholders.
• Provide architectural guidance across strategic initiatives.

Data, Integration & AI Enablement

• Establish architecture patterns supporting data, integrations, automation, analytics, and AI.
• Ensure technology investments support the firm’s long‑term AI and automation strategy.
• Guide architecture decisions involving Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Fabric, Copilot, APIs, OTS solutions, and integration platforms.
• Enable scalable and secure data sharing throughout the organization.

Team Development & Technical Leadership

• Serve as the firm’s principal architect and lead solution advisor.
• Refine SLDC processes and tooling.
• Mentor developers, analysts, and technical resources to become stronger business‑facing solution architects and consultants.
• Build architecture and solution‑thinking capabilities across the IT organization.
• Influence technical direction without excessive reliance on organizational hierarchy.

Vendor & Strategic Partner Leadership

• Lead technical discussions with software vendors, implementation partners, and consulting firms.
• Establish partner governance and architecture expectations.
• Ensure external solutions align with firm standards and long‑term technology strategy.
• Leverage partner expertise while maintaining internal ownership of architecture direction.

Experience

10+ years of progressive technology leadership experience. Experience leading enterprise‑wide transformation initiatives. Strong background in enterprise applications, integrations, modernization and architecture. Experience building architecture capabilities or functions. Experience partnering directly with executives and business leaders. Familiarity with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Fabric, Copilot, and modern SaaS ecosystems. Professional services, consulting, accounting, legal, or other knowledge‑worker business experience preferred.

Characteristics

Strategic thinker with a bias toward execution. Simplifies complexity. Strong facilitator and communicator. Comfortable influencing without authority. Business‑minded technologist. Teacher and mentor. Practical innovator. Equally comfortable in the boardroom and the solution design session.

Supervisory Responsibility

This role will not require any direct supervisory responsibility. The person in this role will be asked to lead or manage projects and project teams.

ADA REQUIREMENTS

The physical and cognitive/mental requirements and the work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Cognitive/Mental Requirements While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: Use written and oral communication skills, Read and interpret data, information and documents, Analyze and solve non‑routine office administrative problems, Observe and interpret situations.

Working Environment While performing the duties of this Job, the employee will work under typical office conditions, with the noise level being usually quiet to moderate. There will be exposure to some noise while working in MDF/IDF locations due to server and networking hardware fans. There will also be occasional exposure to outside environment when traveling to and from various office locations as needed for meetings/training/events as requested.

Travel Some regular travel by car, possible flights, will be required.

ADA REQUIREMENTS

The physical and cognitive/mental requirements and the work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Physical Requirements While performing the duties of this job, the employee is: Regularly required to remain in a stationary position; use hands repetitively to operate standard office equipment; and to talk or hear, both in person and by telephone. Required to have specific vision abilities which include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Cognitive/Mental Requirements While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: Use written and oral communication skills. Read and interpret data, information, and documents. Observe and interpret situations. Work under deadlines with frequent interruptions; and Interact with internal and external customers and others in the course of work.

Elliott Davis pairs forward-thinking tax, assurance and consulting services with industry‑leading workplace culture. Our nine offices — located in the fastest growing cities in the US — are built on a foundation of inclusivity, collaboration, and collective growth.

EES Statement

Elliott Davis Advisory, LLC provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US

• generous time away and paid firm holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s
• flexible work schedules
• 16 weeks of paid maternity and adoption leave, 8 weeks of paid parental leave, 4 weeks of paid and caregiver leave (once eligible)
• first‑class health and wellness benefits, including wellness coaching and mental health counseling
• one‑on‑one professional coaching
• Leadership and career development programs
• access to Beyond: a one‑of‑a‑kind program with experiences that help you expand your life, personally and professionally

Elliott Davis pairs forward-thinking tax, assurance and consulting services with industry‑leading workplace culture. Our nine offices — located