Principal Enterprise Architect

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Position Overview

The Principal Enterprise Architect plays a strategic architecture role within the Office of the CIO. The role helps establish and mature an enterprise architecture capability that connects business priorities with technology strategy and execution across the HP Enterprise.

The Principal Enterprise Architect translates business strategy into target architectures transition roadmaps standards and investment guidance across business application data integration cloud technology and AI domains. The role promotes reuse and simplification and helps teams deliver secure scalable resilient and business-aligned solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Help define and operationalize the enterprise architecture operating model principles methods standards decision rights and measures of value.

• Lead architecture for major enterprise initiatives from strategy and discovery through target-state definition transition planning and delivery guidance.

• Develop current-state assessments target architectures reference architectures and multiyear roadmaps for critical enterprise capabilities and platforms.

• Connect business strategy operating models and capability needs to technology priorities portfolio choices and investment decisions.

• Guide simplification reuse interoperability application rationalization lifecycle management and technical debt reduction across a complex global technology landscape.

• Assess complex technology choices and recommend patterns platforms and strategic direction based on business value total cost scalability resilience interoperability and long-term fit.

• Define and maintain reusable architecture assets including principles standards reference architectures patterns and decision records.

• Serve on the Architecture Review Board providing pragmatic review constructive challenge and clear guidance without creating unnecessary delivery friction.

• Partner with strategy product engineering data cloud security infrastructure and business technology leaders to align domain plans with enterprise direction.

• Influence portfolio planning and investment decisions by clarifying dependencies tradeoffs transition costs architectural risk and the business consequences of technology choices.

• Coach architects and senior technologists and strengthen shared practices reusable assets and consistent architecture methods across organizational boundaries.

• Communicate complex architecture topics clearly to executives business leaders architects engineers and delivery teams.

AI Platform Architecture and Enablement

The role sets enterprise architecture direction and guardrails for AI-enabled capabilities and partners with specialized platform data security and engineering teams on detailed design and delivery.

• Guide platform teams in designing enterprise AI platforms that support generative AI agentic AI machine learning MLOps enterprise data access model lifecycle management and observability at scale.

• Define reusable guardrails and patterns for AI security privacy responsible use data protection identity and access model governance resilience interoperability and cost-effective scaling.

• Guide evaluation and adoption of AI capabilities embedded in SaaS and vendor-packaged software including integration patterns enterprise data use workflow enablement vendor fit overlap and sustainable business value.

• Promote consistent AI platform capabilities and integration approaches that limit fragmentation duplicated investment unmanaged risk and isolated solutions.

• Apply AI within the enterprise architecture function to improve architecture knowledge retrieval portfolio analysis documentation standards analysis review preparation and roadmap scenario modeling.

Stakeholder Engagement

Build trusted relationships with senior business Digital and technology leaders. Facilitate decisions across organizational boundaries present clear options and tradeoffs and create alignment around enterprise direction while respecting domain ownership and delivery accountability.

Required Qualifications

• 12 or more years of progressive technology experience including enterprise architecture experience in a large complex global organization.

• Demonstrated experience developing target architectures reference architectures standards and multiyear transformation roadmaps across multiple architecture domains.

• Experience shaping enterprise technology strategy and influencing major platform portfolio modernization and investment decisions without relying on direct reporting authority.

• Experience partnering with platform and engineering teams on cloud data integration SaaS packaged applications and AI-enabled capabilities.

• Ability to translate business strategy and operating-model needs into practical business-aligned technology direction.

• Ability to communicate architecture recommendations and tradeoffs clearly to executives business leaders architects engineers and delivery teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors or graduate degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

• Familiarity with established enterprise architecture frameworks and methods. Practical application and sound architectural judgment are more important than certification.

Knowledge and Skills

Enterprise Architecture and Technology

• Enterprise architecture strategy operating models principles governance and value measurement

• Business capability modeling value streams operating-model alignment technology strategy target-state architecture transition architecture roadmapping scenario planning and dependency analysis

• Application portfolio strategy modernization rationalization lifecycle management and technical debt

• Data integration APIs event-driven systems cloud platform infrastructure and distributed-system architecture

• SaaS and vendor-packaged software evaluation integration extensibility and platform fit

• Architecture modeling reference architectures reusable patterns architecture decisions and executive-level visual communication

• Financial and commercial awareness including total cost of ownership investment tradeoffs and vendor considerations

AI and Cross Organizational Leadership

• Enterprise AI platforms generative and agentic AI patterns MLOps AI lifecycle management and responsible AI guardrails

• Enterprise mindset that balances strategic consistency business outcomes domain needs and delivery realities

• Influence facilitation negotiation and decision-framing skills across senior and highly technical audiences

• Ability to simplify complex issues make tradeoffs transparent and create alignment without direct authority

• Strong judgment intellectual curiosity learning agility and comfort working through ambiguity

• Ability to operate effectively with global teams across functions business units and time zones

• Commitment to practical architecture that accelerates delivery while improving long-term enterprise outcomes

Pay & Benefits

The pay range for this role is $147050 to $230850 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location job-related knowledge skills and experience.

Benefits:

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies including;
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave
• US benefits overview compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this

  posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time

  with or without notice subject to applicable law.

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  Full time

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  No shift premium (United States of America)

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