Vice President, Enterprise Architecture, Data & Integrations

Vice President, Enterprise Architecture, Data & Integrations

Information Technology

Exempt, Regular, Pay Grade 5.5

Location: Hybrid

The Enterprise Architecture leader enables business and technology leadership to make informed investment decisions that balance near-term operational needs with long-term strategic goals. This role proactively and holistically guides leaders, product teams, and technology organizations through transformation and optimization initiatives, ensuring tight alignment between business strategy, operating models, and enterprise architecture.

The Enterprise Architect team develops and governs the enterprise architecture across all the technology and business domains, leads alignment of business and IT strategy. The leader provides technology guidance, roadmaps, standards and best practices, and positions the EA function as a strategic partner and internal consulting capability that supports targeted business outcomes such as revenue growth, cost optimization, risk mitigation, and improved sustainability.

The Data & Integrations Leader leads the design and execution of enterprise integration strategies that unify business systems, applications, and data platforms across the organization. This role oversees the adoption of modern integration frameworks, APIs, and cloud-native solutions to ensure scalability and security. The integration team is responsible for enabling real-time data exchange that supports operational efficiency and strategic growth.

This is a leadership role managing multiple architects, integration engineers, data, learning platforms and matrix responsibility for platform engineering, cybersecurity, operations, and project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategy, Alignment, and Architecture Leadership

• Provide overall direction, guidance, and definition of enterprise architecture to support corporate business strategy and digital transformation.
• Work with business and technology leadership to understand strategic objectives, operating models, and desired business outcomes, and translate them into current and future state architectures.
• Lead analysis of business and operating models, market and industry trends, and emerging technologies to determine their impact on enterprise strategy and architecture.
• Develop and maintain enterprise-wide architectural roadmaps that connect strategy to execution, highlighting options, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
• Construct technology-enabled business and operating models and provide viable options to achieve targeted outcomes.

2. Architecture Governance and Standards

• Lead the definition and continuous improvement of architectural principles, policies, standards, patterns, and guardrails.
• Chair or actively participate in architecture governance forums, ensuring that proposed solutions align with target-state architecture, and manage exceptions where appropriate.
• Define and apply minimal viable architecture and reference architectures that enable agility while maintaining coherence and integrity of the technology landscape.
• Approve or influence the selection of tools, platforms, and components used within the enterprise to ensure interoperability, scalability, and alignment with strategic goals.

3. Business Architecture and Portfolio Planning

• Work with business architects and leaders to identify key drivers, capabilities, and business outcomes, and create diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables (capability maps, value streams, impact analyses, etc.).
• Lead analysis of current and future state business and technology capabilities to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop and present IT investment roadmaps and portfolio views that reflect the ability of the existing landscape to support future-state capabilities and ecosystem or platform strategies.
• Maintain alignment, integration, and coordination of architecture activities across programs, projects, and products over time.

4. Integrations Architecture and Implementation

• Design and maintain enterprise integration patterns and reference architectures to support connectivity across applications, platforms, and data sources.
• Lead implementation of integrations to enable secure, scalable, and real-time connectivity between systems.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of current integration frameworks to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for simplification and modernization.
• Partner with platform engineering and operations teams to translate business requirements into technical integrations solutions.
• Establish monitoring, performance metrics, and governance frameworks to ensure integrations remain reliable, compliant, and cost-effective over time.

5. Data Management Leadership

• Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight for the Enterprise Data Management function.
• Ensure consistent data governance, high‑quality data standards, metadata management, stewardship processes, and secure data lifecycle practices that enable analytics, regulatory compliance, and trusted enterprise reporting.

6. Learning Platforms Ownership

• Lead the strategy, governance, and continuous improvement of enterprise learning platforms.
• Ensure platform reliability, integration with core systems, and the delivery of scalable, user‑centric learning experiences that support workforce development and organizational capability building.

7. Innovation, Trends, and Emerging Technology

• Continuously scan the business and technology ecosystem for emerging trends, innovations, and disruptions; contextualize them in terms of business relevance, timing, and risk.
• Assess disruptive forces and identify technology-enabled innovation opportunities that can support business strategy and competitiveness.
• Run or support pilots and proof-of-concepts for new technologies, business models, or services, and integrate successful initiatives into steady-state operations.
• Provide practical advice and best practices to leverage new technologies effectively, balancing innovation with stability and risk management.

8. Stakeholder Engagement and Consulting

• Build and maintain strong relationships with executives, business leaders, product managers, product owners, and technology leaders.
• Position the EA function as an internal management consultancy by developing a portfolio of EA services that support strategy development, solution shaping, and decision support.
• Provide consultative guidance and actionable recommendations to stakeholders regarding investment choices, risks, tradeoffs, and architectural implications.
• Facilitate business-driven conversations about product and project decisions, ensuring transparency on impacts to lines of business and the wider enterprise.
• Communicate architectural concepts, strategy, and roadmaps in clear, compelling narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences.

9. Collaboration with Delivery and Operations

• Collaborate with project and product delivery teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, and identify when adaptations to the enterprise architecture are needed.
• Provide “freedom-in-a-box” to delivery teams by defining clear boundaries and standards while empowering autonomous decision making.
• Work closely with infrastructure and platform teams to ensure consistency with enterprise architecture and scalable, secure, and resilient operations.
• Support both project-centric and product-centric operating models and agile, iterative delivery approaches.

10. Team Leadership and Capability Building

• Lead or influence the enterprise architecture practice, including defining required skills, competencies, and operating models.
• Recruit, develop, coach, and mentor architects and related roles where line management applies, or lead a community of practice where a federated model is in place.
• Promote architectural thinking and literacy across business and technology teams, providing training, knowledge sharing, and guidance.
• Develop and execute communication plans to increase understanding of enterprise architecture, its value, and its outcomes across the organization.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's or master's degree in business, computer science, information systems, engineering, systems analysis, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Experience

• Significant professional experience in business and technology roles, including strategic and operational planning, business analysis, or enterprise architecture.
• 10+ years experience across multiple disciplines such as business, information, solution and technical architecture, application development, platform or infrastructure engineering, data and analytics, or operations in complex environments. 5+ years of IT Leadership experience.
• Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional programs or portfolios and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in architecture design and deployment, systems or product lifecycle management, and infrastructure or platform planning and operations.

Skills and Competencies

• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture concepts, methodologies, and frameworks, as well as business and operating model design.
• Deep understanding of modern integration frameworks to enable seamless interoperability, scalability, and security.
• Knowledge of modern technology landscapes, including cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, data platforms, and integration patterns.
• Familiarity with agile and lean methodologies, product-centric operating models, and scaled agile frameworks.
• Strong grasp of financial and risk concepts, including basic financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.
• Ability to perform high-level and detailed analysis, develop clear recommendations, and create actionable roadmaps.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills with the ability to convey complex ideas to diverse audiences.
• Strong consulting skills, including stakeholder management, engagement management, influencing, and negotiation.
• Organizational savvy, with the ability to navigate complex political environments and build consensus.

Personal Attributes

• Trusted and respected as a strategic thought leader who can influence and persuade both business and technology stakeholders.
• Highly collaborative and supportive of organizational goals, open to different perspectives and operating styles.
• Innovative, with strong systems thinking and design thinking capabilities.
• Vendor- and technology-neutral, focusing on achieving targeted business outcomes rather than specific products or platforms.
• Composed and pragmatic when managing conflicts related to architectural principles, governance, and standards.
• Practical, outcome-oriented, and able to balance long-term vision with short-term delivery needs.

All submissions should include a cover letter and resume.

The University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination. UMGC is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, ancestry, political affiliation or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

Workplace Accommodations:

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Benefits Package Highlights:

• Generous Time Off: Enjoy 22 days of paid vacation, 15 days of sick leave, 3 personal days, and 16 paid holidays (17 during general election years). For part-time employees, time off rates will be prorated based on the number of hours worked.

• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Access to health care, medical with vision, dental, and prescription plans for both individuals and families, effective from the 1st of the month following your hire date.

• Insurance Options: Term Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance, and Long-Term Disability (LTD) Insurance. Part-time employees working less than 0.5 FTE are not eligible for LTD.

• Flexible Spending Accounts: Available for medical and dependent care expenses.

• Retirement Plans: Choose between the Optional Retirement Program (ORP) or the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System (MSRPS).

• Supplemental Retirement Plans: include 401(k), 403(b), 457(b), and various Roth options. The university does not provide matching funds.

• Tuition Remission: Immediate availability for Regular Exempt Staff. Spouses and dependent children are eligible for undergraduate tuition remission after two years of service. NOTE: For part-time employees (at least 50 percent of the time), tuition remission benefits are prorated.

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