Adv-Enterprise Architecture

While this is a remote position, the successful candidate must reside within 50 miles of a FedEx Freight location within the continental US. **POSITION OVERVIEW**: Provides governance and execution support for enterprise architecture by maintaining standards, guiding portfolio decisions and ensuring alignment across applications, data and infrastructure. Supports the Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (CoE) through best-practice development, training and enablement to drive consistent adoption across the organization. **ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS**: - Lead the Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (CoE) through best-practice development, training, and enablement activities - Govern architecture standards and practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and security across enterprise systems - Support portfolio reviews to guide technology investment decisions and ensure alignment with business priorities - Identifying training needs and skill gaps within the organization. - Provide architectural oversight and guidance across applications, data, and infrastructure/cloud environments, translating enterprise strategies into actionable designs in partnership with product, engineering, and data teams - Collaborate with stakeholders, e.g., solution architects, to ensure interoperability, alignment, and adoption of architectural standards across technology domains - Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures. - Perform other duties as assigned. **QUALIFICATIONS**: - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field - Five (5) years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture within complex environment - Strong expertise in architecture frameworks such as The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or ArchiMate, including modeling tools - Familiarity with modern data platforms including master data management (MDM), data lakes, and real-time data streaming - Strong communication skills to explain architecture concepts to technical and non-technical audiences - Strategic mindset with the ability to connect architecture decisions to business value and risk - Skilled collaborator capable of influencing adoption of standards across distributed teams **Preferred Skills & Knowledge:** The enterprise architect partners with business and IT stakeholders to plan and govern projects, manage resource capacity across portfolios, and perform financial analysis of technology investments to optimize cost, value, and risk. Participates in developing and guiding technology roadmaps, evaluates solution options, and ensures alignment with enterprise standards while balancing demand, capacity, and budget constraints. Experience in COE / SRE cross teams engagements is desired. **JOB CONDITIONS**: - Some travel required **Pay Transparency:** The compensation listed reflects the pay range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position at the posted location(s). If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the pay information represents the minimum and maximum range for all levels. Actual pay is determined by job-related factors permitted by law and relevant to the position, such as experience, tenure, market level, pay at the location for this job, performance, schedule, and work assignment. Eligible employees offered health, vision, dental, life, AD&D, STD and LTD insurance, employee assistance program, personal/sick paid time, 401(k) retirement savings plan, bonus potential, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, 2 weeks paid parental leave, paid bereavement, employee discounts, 6.67–13.34 hours vacation per month based on service time, 8 paid holidays. Pay Range: $103,880.00 - $181,790.00 per year Colorado Pay Ranges: Colorado Springs, Grand Junction $103,880 - $181,790; Henderson, Mead $103,880 - $181,790; Gypsum $103,880 - $181,790 Illinois Pay Ranges: Effingham, Kankakee, Lincoln, Quincy, Rockford, Aurora $103,880 - $181,790; Bolingbrook, Chicago…