Job Description: Title: Director, Enterprise Architect Reports to: Vice President, Genie Technology Location: Hybrid schedule, Seattle, WA area. Relocation: No Travel: 25% About the Position: The Enterprise Architect guides the enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes and capabilities. The enterprise architect's scope of activities could include helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks and improving sustainability. They focus on development of the business and IT strategy and enterprise architecture of the organization as a whole. The enterprise architect must: Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the broader IT landscape Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships Adapt to changing business and operating models Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes Support various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric Communicate the value of enterprise architecture, and its portfolio of services Drive the evolution of the EA teams services and operating model Responsibilities: The Enterprise Architect will demonstrate competencies across five key dimensions. Supports Formulation of Strategy and Guides Execution Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise's business strategy, direction, and architecture. Uses planning-driven, design-driven, and learning-driven approaches to construct future- and current-state business models. Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner. Translates and guides execution of business strategy to achieve the organization's targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture. Constructs technology-enabled business and operating models and provides viable options and visibility into execution issues. Builds and Maintains Relationships Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way. Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise operating model. Provides consultative advice, adapted to stakeholder context, to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions. Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise. Orchestrates the Delivery of Business Outcomes Positions the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensures that the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate and execute business strategy. Works with business architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes. Leads analysis of the business' future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities. Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture. Works with the CDO and IT leaders to find the right EA organizational design to drive business-outcomes. Ensures that the EA organizational desi