Chief Enterprise Architect, Information TechnologySputnik Solutions Inc • Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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Chief Enterprise Architect, Information Technology
Sputnik Solutions Inc
- Deerfield, Illinois, United States
- Deerfield, Illinois, United States
Über
Sputnik Solutions, Inc.
is a Schaumburg, Illinois–based IT and Non-IT consulting and staffing company dedicated to providing high-quality technology solutions, software development, and outsourcing services. With expertise across mobile and web development, IT staffing, and managed services, Sputnik helps businesses of all sizes enhance productivity, reduce costs, and achieve their digital goals. By combining onshore and offshore capabilities, the company delivers flexible, cost-effective, and scalable solutions tailored to client needs.
Led by a team of experienced professionals, Sputnik Solutions is known for its commitment to integrity, innovation, and client success. Beyond IT services, the company also offers registered agent services in Illinois, helping businesses stay compliant and operationally strong. Through personalized consultation and expert talent delivery, Sputnik Solutions continues to empower organizations to grow confidently in an ever-evolving technology landscape.
Job Description Role Purpose The
Chief Enterprise Architect (CEA)
is the senior Information Technology (IT) leader accountable for translating enterprise strategy into coherent, executable business and technology outcomes. The role ensures that technology strategy, technology evolution roadmaps, and technology selections are actively governed to enable the company’s customer experience, growth, productivity, compliance, security, operational simplification, capital allocation, and cost optimization goals.
Outcomes That Define Success Success for the CEA is demonstrated by:
Clear alignment between enterprise strategy and information technology strategy
Formal management of 5-year technology evolution roadmaps, refreshed annually
Simplification of the technology landscape, optimizing business processes, minimizing cost, and maximizing leverage of capabilities across the enterprise
Reduced architectural complexity, technical debt, and IT operating cost
A credible, high‑performing, outcome‑oriented architecture community actively engaged in executing the technology evolution roadmaps
Core Responsibilities People: Lead the IT Architecture Community
Lead the architecture community with a clear mission and governance model, and nurture the community to advance business and technology acumen
Establish architectural principles that emphasize enterprise-wide leverage, process and technology simplification, speed of execution, sound risk management, and revealing conditions for which specialized technological solutions are needed
Ensure the members of the architecture community operate in a fashion that defines and manages precise architectural standards while also actively engaging in efforts to architect and deploy optimal solutions
Strategy Realization: Shape Architectural Technology Strategy and Drive Execution
Partner with the CIO and executive leaders to translate strategy into target operating models, capability roadmaps, and investment priorities
Lead future‑state architecture across business capabilities, value streams, platforms, and ecosystems
Connect strategy to execution through implementable, sequenced roadmaps
Provide fact‑based guidance on readiness, trade‑offs, and change capacity
Sponsor annual refreshes of the Process-IT Landscape for the entire enterprise, covering all business functions and business divisions
Champion establishment and annual refreshes of a rolling 5-year Process-IT Target State Landscape to guide continuous evolution toward a simpler, more cost-effective, and capable technology ecosystem
Act as the integrator across business units, product teams, and technology domains to continually manage understanding of the Current State Process-IT Landscape and guide decisions that result in progressing to the Target State Landscape.
Business capabilities and value streams
Product portfolios and platform strategies
Technology standards and delivery autonomy
Surface cross‑enterprise dependencies, risks, and opportunities early
Enable consistent architectural decision‑making without slowing delivery
Governance: Drive Technology Selections and Innovation
Identify and contextualize emerging technologies and ecosystem trends
Sponsor the Technical Assessment Council (TAC) to validate, assess, and disposition new technology requests ensuring use of existing technologies is first priority
Review and validate proposed solution designs described in IT investment proposals
Ensure architectural target state guidelines enable re‑use and rapid deployment
Lead assessments of architectural health, technical debt, and technology modernization priorities
Champion the continuous improvement of the CMDB ensuring accuracy, clarity, and completeness throughout the knowledge base
Sponsor targeted experiments tied to tangible business outcomes
Ensure successful innovations scale into operational capabilities
Engage the architecture community to produce architectural designs for proposed IT investments leveraging existing technologies to the greatest extent possible across the enterprise, and utilizing new technologies only to address business‑critical capability gaps
Partner with delivery and infrastructure leaders to improve cost efficiency and time‑to‑market
Executive Relationships
CIO and IT leadership
Business Division and Functional leaders
Finance, Strategy, and Transformation leaders
The role requires executive‑level influence and the ability to challenge constructively in guiding technology strategies and selections to maximize enterprise leverage of capabilities and minimize operating cost.
Qualifications and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in IT or Engineering; or equivalent experience
15+ years in enterprise architecture, IT strategy, and business transformation
Track record in executing multi-year technology evolution roadmaps yielding tangible business outcomes
Global IT community leadership in delivering technology‑powered business transformations in complex environments
Critical Capabilities
Business and IT architectural design
Technology evolution roadmap planning and business case development
Technology trends assessment and application (cloud, SaaS, platforms, data, AI)
Executive communication and facilitation
Leadership Profile
Credible and persuasive with senior executives
Systems thinker balancing long‑term integrity with near‑term delivery
Pragmatic, commercially grounded, and politically astute
Builder of talent, trust, and cross‑functional alignment
CIO Perspective The Chief Enterprise Architect ensures we invest in the right technologies, design architectures coherently, and evolve the IT landscape to maximize enterprise leverage, minimize cost, and keep pace with technological trends that enable competitive advantage.
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Sprachkenntnisse
- English
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