Enterprise Architect
What the work is
Develops, maintains and communicates the overarching enterprise architecture for an organisation, aligning processes, information and technology with business strategy. Ensures coherence and alignment across departments, and optimises systems and processes to achieve business goals.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Creates and maintains the strategic enterprise architecture roadmap and frameworks in alignment with business objectives
- Describes the interrelationships between the organisation's business, data, applications and infrastructure
- Assesses existing functions and capabilities, and identifies gaps and vulnerabilities
- Develops strategies to improve and support enterprise efficiency and performance
- Evaluates new technologies for potential adoption to improve efficiency and achieve business requirements
- Ensures compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities, technology directions, policies and practices
- Facilitates architectural changes in the organisation, helps mitigate the associated risks, and evaluates its effectiveness
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in the operations improvement team of a fictional furniture maker with one factory and a warehouse. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A messy process you mapped on a whiteboard becomes one that the team actually likes
- Someone on the factory floor tells you the thing no report ever mentioned
- A small change you suggested saves the team a whole afternoon, every week
Hard days
- People think you are there to cut jobs and they stop talking when you walk in
- Your clear recommendation meets a manager who liked the old way
- Stacks of data that do not agree and a presentation due in the morning
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 223431, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.