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About the Role

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for the design authority, technical standards, and target-state architecture guiding BerryDunn's business technology across the Microsoft cloud. This role focuses on the firm's AI strategy, emerging technology evaluation, and migration to Microsoft Azure, serving as the senior architecture authority for AI-enabled business applications, Azure platform services, Power Platform, and integration patterns.

Responsibilities

Own, maintain, and evolve BerryDunn's architectural principles and standards catalog.
Serve as design authority for AI, automation, integration, application, and Microsoft cloud solutions.
Chair or lead the architecture review gate for significant solutions and AI agents.
Maintain architecture decision records, reference architectures, solution patterns, and reusable design assets.
Align architecture work to the firm's TOGAF-based governance model.
Provide architectural leadership for the FY27 AI strategy.
Define target-state architecture and standards for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and custom AI services.
Set standards for agent design and classification, allowable autonomy, prompt and tool security, retrieval design, grounding, evaluation, and monitoring.
Require and validate human-in-the-loop controls and deterministic processing where sensitive data is involved.
Define AI production-readiness criteria and verify evidence before pilots scale.
Partner with the AI Hub-and-Spoke governance model, AI Community of Practice, Security, and Risk.
Advise Spokes and product owners on use-case feasibility, data readiness, cost, and reuse-first delivery.
Lead the architecture workstream for migrating workloads from the on-premises data center to Microsoft Azure.
Design and govern the Azure landing zone.
Define migration waves, cutover and rollback approaches, and resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery targets.
Establish standards for infrastructure as code, environment strategy, CI/CD, and release governance.
Own and mature FinOps practices for cloud and AI platforms.
Reduce and eventually retire on-premises dependencies.
Maintain a technology radar that evaluates emerging Microsoft, AI, data, and automation capabilities.
Design and run structured proofs of concept and pilots.
Assess vendor and product roadmaps, licensing implications, and platform lifecycle risk.
Translate emerging capability into practical firm roadmap recommendations tied to business outcomes.
Embed identity-first security in architecture.
Ensure designs meet data protection expectations.
Require unified auditability and evidentiary logging.
Partner with Security, Risk, Compliance and Data Governance on threat modeling, control evidence packs, and remediation of architectural risk.
Support client, regulatory, and professional-standards obligations.
Define target-state architecture for Power Platform.
Establish integration and API standards.
Set data platform architecture direction.
Ensure enterprise applications are architected for supportability, upgradeability, and secure integration.
Coach project teams through intake, design, implementation, and production readiness.
Publish templates, checklists, and reference implementations.
Communicate architectural direction, trade-offs, risk, and cost to IT leadership and executive stakeholders.
Mentor engineers, analysts, and solution specialists.
Represent architecture in project planning, change advisory, vendor selection, and governance forums.
Serve as a people manager for assigned team members.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (Equivalent experience or technical certifications may be considered).
10+ years of progressive technology experience, including 5+ years in an enterprise, solution, or principal architect role with accountability for standards and design authority.
Experience managing, coaching, or developing technical staff.
Demonstrated experience designing and governing solutions on Microsoft Azure.
Hands-on experience leading or architecting on-premises to Azure migrations.
Practical experience architecting AI solutions on the Microsoft stack.
Experience defining and enforcing architecture governance and setting architectural standards.
Experience with Power Platform environment strategy, DLP and connector governance, and application lifecycle management.

Skills

Microsoft cloud
AI strategy
Emerging technology evaluation
Microsoft Azure
AI-enabled business applications
Azure platform services
Power Platform
Integration patterns
TOGAF
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Copilot Studio
Azure AI Foundry
Azure OpenAI
Retrieval
Grounding
Evaluation
Guardrails
Azure landing zone design
Identity
Networking
Security baselines
Infrastructure as code
CI/CD
Release governance
FinOps
Technology radar
Proofs of concept
Pilots
Vendor roadmap assessment
Build-versus-buy analysis
Platform consolidation
Identity-first security
Entra ID
RBAC
Data protection
Unified auditability
Threat modeling
Power Platform environment strategy
Connector governance
DLP policies
Application lifecycle management
Integration standards
API standards
Data platform architecture
Azure SQL
Data pipelines
People management
Coaching
Communication

Location

Work Type

Minimal travel (<10% per year)

Experience Level

5+ years in an enterprise, solution, or principal architect role
10+ years of progressive technology experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (Equivalent experience or technical certifications may be considered.)

Salary/Compensations

$160,000 - $180,000

Benefits

Benefits that go beyond what’s expected to support physical, mental, career, social, and financial well-being.

About the Company

BerryDunn is the brand name under which Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker, LLC and BDMP Assurance, LLP, independently owned entities, provide services.
Since 1974, BerryDunn has helped businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies throughout the US and its territories solve their greatest challenges.
The firm’s tax, advisory, and consulting services are provided by Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker, LLC, and its attest services are provided by BDMP Assurance, LLP, a licensed CPA firm.
BerryDunn is a client-centered, people-first professional services firm with a mission to empower the meaningful growth of our people, clients, and communities.
The firm has been recognized for its efforts in creating a diverse and inclusive workplace culture, and for its focus on learning, development, and well-being.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.