• The Senior IT Principal Enterprise Architect shapes and drives a global, multi-year technology strategy across a diverse global landscape. • This role partners with the VP of Architecture, domain architects, development teams, and business partners to evaluate the current estate, define a modern target architecture, and lead a pragmatic roadmap for the next five years of accelerated growth. • Drives Innovation Across the Enterprise. • Champions new ideas and emerging technologies that deliver transformative business value. • Encourages experimentation and calculated risk-taking across architecture and engineering teams. • Proactively scouts for opportunities to leverage AI, automation, advanced analytics, and next-generation platforms. • Launches pilot programs and proof-of-concepts to validate impact and scalability. • Facilitates workshops and innovation forums to accelerate ideation and solutioning. • Creates frameworks for evaluating, prioritizing, and scaling successful innovations. • Assesses current-state architecture (applications, data, integration, security, infrastructure—cloud and on-premises). • Defines target-state and reference architectures. Delivers a sequenced, value-centric 3 to 5 year roadmap. • Architect solutions spanning U.S. on-premises data centers, Azure (primary cloud), AWS (select workloads), and Google SecOps for SIEM. • Guides hybrid/multi-cloud patterns, landing zones, network/identity architecture, FinOps, cost governance, and observability. • Leads rationalization and modernization of legacy platforms to contemporary architectures. Establishes and evolves enterprise integration patterns (API-first, event-driven, data streaming).