Principal Enterprise Architect

Overview

Frontdoor is reimagining how homeowners maintain and repair their most valuable asset – their home. As the parent company of two leading brands, we bring over 50 years of experience in providing our members with comprehensive options to protect their homes from costly and unexpected breakdowns through our extensive network of pre-qualified professional contractors. American Home Shield, the category leader in home service plans with approximately two million members, gives homeowners budget protection and convenience, covering up to 23 essential home systems and appliances. Frontdoor is a cutting edge, one-stop app for home repair and maintenance. Enabled by our Streem technology, the app empowers homeowners by connecting them in real time through video chat with pre-qualified experts to diagnose and solve their problems. The Frontdoor app also offers homeowners a range of other benefits including DIY tips, discounts and more. For more information about American Home Shield and Frontdoor, please visit frontdoorhome.com .

Responsibilities

Summary (100-200 words) :Responsible for overarching enterprise business and technology architectures across the entire organization. Act as a technology generalist with expertise crossing multiple business and technology domains. Works on highly complex efforts and initiatives that require a technical perspective with limited oversight.

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture efforts for projects involving technical and business complexity.

• Influence business results.

• Analyze and resolve multi-dimensional business and technical problems using broad and deep experience and relationship skills among diverse stakeholders.

• Make recommendations while still requiring outside support to make large decisions within area of direct responsibility.

• Apply architecture tools and techniques to resolve complex problems.

• Managing major, complex projects,involving delegation of work and review of work products.

• Contribute to the analysis and development of architectural roadmaps and implementation plans

• Contribute to the development of software and other delivery platforms with the design of reusable components

• Partner with business leaders to understand business needs and provide technology options to meet the needs

• Provide advice to internal clients and teams on future requirements, architecture decisions, and system optimization

• Lead the technical design of systems and services and communicate design decisions

• Contribute to designs applied to all aspects of business systems and/or infrastructure prototypes and eventual implementation

• Validate architectural decisions on a day-to-day basis

• Lead the research of emerging technology, industry and market trends to identify potential impact to architecture

• May assume other duties as applied.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Ability to align IT strategies with business goals and identify areas for improvement.

• Deep understanding of IT systems, architecture frameworks, and emerging technologies.

• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate with various teams.

• Capability to participate in IT transformations and guide individuals towards achieving organizational objectives.

• Proficiency in identifying issues and developing effective solutions to improve system performance and efficiency.

• Skills in managing projects, including planning, execution, and monitoring to ensure successful implementation of IT strategies.

• In-depth understanding of various enterprise-scale technology capabilities and the ability to use these in unique ways to create value-generating solutions

• Expertise in designing and implementing the overall structure and framework for an organization's technological systems and processes.

• Strong communication skills to effectively contribute in transformations necessary to achieve long-term success.

Preferred Skills:

• TOGAF/Zachmann Certification

Physical Role Requirements : Be seated at a computer intermittently for up to eight hours a day. Move up to 10 pounds occasionally, by lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or otherwise repositioning objects. Sitting for long periods of time while using office equipment such as computers and phones. Repetitive motions using hands and digits; such as movement of wrists, hands and fingers while picking, pinching and typing during your normal working environment.

Minimum Education, Licensure and Professional Certification requirements: Bachelor's degree required in engineering, computer science or equivalent

Minimum Experience required (number of years necessary to perform role) :12+ years of hands-on experience required inarchitecture, software engineering, system engineering, project management and/or businessanalysisor any equivalent

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Job Locations US

ID 2024-3569

Category Computer Programmers

Type Full Time

Company AHS American Home Shield Corp