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About the Role

The Principal Enterprise Architect is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping, guiding, and advancing enterprise architecture. This role translates enterprise strategy into practical architecture direction, standards, target-state designs, and transition roadmaps across various technology domains. The architect will collaborate closely with business and technology stakeholders to design enterprise solutions that scale for the organization.

Responsibilities

Support the Head of Enterprise Architecture in developing and evolving enterprise architecture strategy, principles, standards, and target-state roadmaps.
Define and maintain architecture perspectives across business, application, data, integration, cloud, platform, security, and AI-related capabilities.
Own enterprise standards, target state, governance, exceptions, and material technology decision frameworks.
Translate enterprise strategy and target-state direction into practical guidance for domain architecture and engineering teams.
Promote alignment across business units, shared services, and technology domains.
Provide architecture leadership for major strategic initiatives, modernization programs, and enterprise-impacting technology decisions.
Assess architecture options and recommend solutions that balance business value, cost, risk, resilience, time to market, and long-term maintainability.
Support enterprise transformation through simplification, rationalization, modernization, and platform reuse.
Identify opportunities to reduce duplication, retire legacy complexity, and improve interoperability across the enterprise.
Participate in and support enterprise architecture governance, standards councils, review boards, and strategic decision forums.
Evaluate material technology decisions using approved enterprise frameworks.
Review architecture proposals for compliance with enterprise standards, target-state architecture, and risk requirements.
Support management of architecture exceptions, including rationale, risk analysis, remediation paths, and time-bound approvals.
Available for production incidents with major impact to business operations.
Partner with federated domain architects, platform leaders, engineering teams, data and AI teams, security, infrastructure, and business technology leaders to drive alignment.
Facilitate resolution of cross-domain design issues, architecture conflicts, and overlapping capability decisions.
Act as a trusted advisor to leaders across technology and business-aligned delivery organizations.
Ensure architecture direction is understood and applied consistently across federated teams.
Works with Business Unit heads and principal solution architects to translate enterprise direction into federated execution.
Incorporate cybersecurity, privacy, resilience, recoverability, and regulatory considerations into architecture guidance and recommendations.
Partner with risk, security, and compliance stakeholders to ensure technology decisions align with enterprise control requirements.
Assess the operational and architectural implications of technology choices in regulated and high-availability environments.
Mentor and coach architects and senior technology professionals.
Contribute to architecture capability development, communities of practice, and architecture operating model maturity.
Support common role expectations, competency models, and quality standards across the architecture function.
Promote enterprise-first thinking, sound decision-making, and strong architecture discipline.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, domain architecture, or senior technology strategy roles.
Deep cross-domain expertise spanning applications, integration, data, AI, cloud, security, and platform strategy.
Experience supporting or leading architecture for large-scale transformation initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
Experience with architecture governance, standards development, target-state planning, and strategic technology decision-making.
Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
Experience in insurance, financial services, healthcare, or another highly regulated industry.
Experience in a federated technology organization with centralized architecture direction and distributed execution.
Experience with cloud modernization, API strategies, platform engineering, data ecosystems, and enterprise integration.
Familiarity with AI-enabled enterprise capabilities, automation, and emerging technology trends.
Advanced degree and/or relevant certifications such as TOGAF, SAFe, AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent.

Skills

Enterprise architecture principles
Methods and governance practices
Enterprise technology domains
Cross-domain dependencies
Target-state architecture
Pragmatic transition approaches
Business acumen
Connecting architecture decisions to business outcomes
Assessing tradeoffs among speed, cost, quality, risk, and strategic fit
Facilitation
Negotiation
Stakeholder management
Executive communication
Business communication
Technical communication
Analytical capabilities
Problem-solving capabilities
Operating effectively in ambiguity
Leading through influence

Location

New York, NY
Holmdel, NJ
Bethlehem, PA

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Principal
Senior

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
Advanced degree

Salary/Compensations

$178,690.00 - $293,560.00

Benefits

Support and flexibility to achieve professional and personal goals
Skill-building
Leadership development
Philanthropic opportunities
Opportunities to build communities and grow career
Diverse colleagues with high ethical standards
Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources

About the Company

Guardian provides insurance and wealth management products and services to 27 million people.
Founded in 1860, Guardian focuses on a long-term view to help customers prepare for life events.
Guardian is a Fortune 250 company and a leading provider of life, disability, and other benefits.
Digital & Technology (D&T) drives Guardian’s innovation agenda and operational excellence.
D&T leverages technology, data, AI, and modern engineering practices to create exceptional customer experiences.
D&T is shaping the future of how Guardian delivers value across the enterprise.

Equal Opportunity

Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.
Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment-based visas.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.