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AT&T

Principal Enterprise Architect

AT&T

. Define and lead enterprise architecture strategy, target-state architecture, and transformation roadmaps .

Posted 10/7/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $155,400 - $261,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Define and lead enterprise architecture strategy, target-state architecture, and transformation roadmaps
  • Align business objectives with scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective technology solutions
  • Partner with business executives, product organizations, engineering teams, security, operations, and technology leaders
  • Translate business drivers into practical architecture direction
  • Design high-level architectural blueprints across applications, data, infrastructure, cloud, AI-enabled solutions, and emerging technologies
  • Guide technology selection, solution design, and implementation approach
  • Establish and promote architecture frameworks, governance processes, reusable patterns, standards, and practices
  • Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities, for measurable business value
  • Support strategic investment decisions through architecture insight, risk assessment, modernization recommendations, and executive-level guidance
  • Serve as a senior technical advisor and mentor on complex architecture challenges and technology decisions

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 7+ years of related experience
  • Experience with LeanIX or comparable enterprise architecture management, application portfolio management, or business capability mapping tools
  • Extensive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, or a closely related architecture leadership role
  • Strong experience defining enterprise technology roadmaps, target-state architecture, modernization strategies, and architecture standards
  • Hands-on experience with AI-enabled solutions, AI strategy, or practical application of AI capabilities within enterprise technology environments
  • Deep understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks, business capability planning, application portfolio management, cloud transformation, governance, and technology modernization
  • Ability to work across business, product, engineering, security, operations, and technology teams to align solutions with enterprise goals
  • Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to influence senior leaders and clearly communicate architecture vision, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations
  • Ability to evaluate and recommend platforms, technologies, methodologies, and architecture patterns for enterprise-wide use
  • Experience leading high-impact enterprise transformation, cloud, data, infrastructure, application modernization, or AI-driven initiatives
  • Experience working in large, complex, matrixed enterprise environments with multiple lines of business and value streams
  • Ability to balance strategic vision with practical execution
  • Strong knowledge of architecture governance, standards, reusable patterns, and modernization best practices
  • Experience influencing technology investment decisions and helping leaders prioritize architecture initiatives based on business value, risk, cost, and scalability
  • Curiosity around emerging technologies and ability to identify where innovation can improve business outcomes, operational efficiency, and customer experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred
  • Architecture certifications or relevant technology certifications are a plus
  • Must not require employer sponsorship now or in the future
  • Must work in the posted location(s); no relocation is offered

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • Paid Time Off and Holidays (at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Caregiver Leave
  • Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
  • Adoption Reimbursement
  • Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
  • Life and Accidental Death Insurance
  • Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
  • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
  • Extensive employee wellness programs
  • Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone