Job Type: Contract

Job Category: IT

Job Description

Role - Enterprise Architect
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Employment Type: Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the enterprise architecture strategy in alignment with business goals, ensuring IT infrastructure, applications, data, and security architectures support those goals.
• Develop architecture blueprints, roadmaps and frameworks for technology, applications, data, integrations, and cloud adoption.
• Evaluate current systems, perform gap analyses, provide recommendations and oversee migration or modernization initiatives (legacy → cloud, monolith → microservices, etc.).
• Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, engineering leads, and operations to translate business requirements into technical architecture solutions.
• Establish and enforce architecture governance: standards, policies, principles, review of designs & implementations to ensure compliance (security, scalability, performance, cost).
• Lead design of scalable, secure, reusable solutions (APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, etc.).
• Identify new/emerging technologies, trends and best practices; assess them for adoption where beneficial.
• Provide technical leadership: mentor teams, articulate and communicate architectural decisions to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Contribute to or lead estimation, budgeting, and planning for architectural work/technology stack upgrades.
• Ensure non‑functional requirements (performance, availability, security, maintainability, scalability) are understood and factored into architecture decisions.

Required Skills