Chief Enterprise Architect

Director of Enterprise Architecture

About the Role

GoodLife Fitness is seeking a seasoned Director of Enterprise Architecture to lead the development and implementation of our technology roadmap. As a key member of our Technology and Innovation leadership team, you will be responsible for defining the architectural framework for applications system development and integration efforts.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a visionary enterprise architecture roadmap to align business strategy and needs.
• Collaborate with the Technology team to specify design patterns, development standards, best practices, coding styles, and other development guidelines.
• Advise on cross-enterprise integration of business processes, technology solutions, data, and Member experience to drive competitive capability, innovation, and new revenue.
• Define and document efficient and transparent architectural principles, standards, and guidelines regarding the proper use and deployment of business applications, data, and technology within GoodLife.
• Assess critical program-wide production problems to evaluate solutions, advise on recovery, and ensure resolution.
• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the enterprise's businesses, understanding current and future needs, and aligning the technology roadmap to deliver upon those needs.
• Partner with broader internal stakeholders to define architectural possibilities and futures, working with business and development teams to recommend processes or system design enhancements.
• Collaborate with the technology leadership to define the technology roadmap for the company, maintaining a roadmap that defines the path of the company in implementing, adopting, and enhancing the architecture.
• Represent enterprise architecture interests within the enterprise and market successes, providing periodic informal presentations on technical subjects to internal audiences.
• Implement and maintain governance mechanisms to operationalize enterprise architecture in business and technology decision making.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Business, or related disciplines or equivalent work experience and technical training.
• 10 years' experience in business system application design, development, or enterprise architecture.
• 5 years experience defining and implementing application architectures, with experience integrating systems in multi-user, multi-platform, operating systems environments.
• Conceptual knowledge of information technologies and methodologies in cloud environments.
• Knowledge of architectural platforms and how constraints impact development and operations of systems.
• Ability to analyze, learn, and apply changing technologies as part of integrated solutions to business requirements.
• Ongoing knowledge of current business and technological environments, and the ability to codify different approaches, strategies into a unified architectural blueprint and lead the migration to the new environment.
• Solid analytical problem-solving skills and planning and organizational capabilities.
• Experience with transformation strategy, approach, and planning.
• Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment that can adapt to change.
• Familiarity with business architecture concepts of business capability mapping and value stream analysis.
• Familiarity with industry leading frameworks and approaches such as TOGAF, Zachman, Lean EA, etc.

What We Offer

• Ongoing training and development to ensure a long and successful career path.
• Career advancement opportunities.
• Competitive Total Rewards Package.
• FREE Fitness membership.
• Fun and energetic atmosphere to come to every day.