Senior architect Jobs in Nashville, TN

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Drive the creation, maturation, and evolution of an integrated Maximus Enterprise Architecture practice, including governance, data standards, reference architectures, capability models, and enterprise roadmaps.
• Guide teams across programs, platforms, and business units in adopting common patterns, shared services, authoritative data sources, and enterprise-wide data and technology practices.
• Lead the development, evolution, and maintenance of a real-time or near-real-time core enterprise data set that Maximus employees and leadership consume and contribute to daily-ensuring it is complete, correct, relevant, timely, and actionable.
• Define and maintain enterprise principles, guardrails, and reference models across business, data, application, and technology domains.
• Train stakeholders on how to use the enterprise architecture to identify capability gaps, redundancies, and modernization opportunities across programs and business segments.
• Assist the data team in defining and enforcing enterprise data standards, data domains, and authoritative data sources.
• Participate in the creation of the enterprise data catalog, including metadata, lineage, stewardship models, and taxonomy management.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to guide the enterprise data pipeline strategy, ensuring reusability, interoperability, and alignment with governance standards.
• Drive adoption of enterprise data-sharing patterns, semantic consistency, and data quality frameworks.
• Work with stakeholders to define target-state application portfolios, integration patterns, shared platforms, and modernization pathways.
• Provide enterprise-wide guidance on platform rationalization, reuse of common services, and legacy modernization.
• Partner with the data team to establish standards for API governance, integration architectures, microservices strategy, and event-driven patterns.
• Work with the data team and key stakeholders to build and maintain enterprise technology standards spanning cloud, security, infrastructure, DevSecOps, and shared platform services.
• Establish rules for implementing emerging technologies with meaningful enterprise impact, and develop adoption recommendations, pilots, and guardrails.

Minimum Requirements :

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 12+ years of relevant professional experience required.
• Must show a proven track record establishing and maturing enterprise architecture practices; developing reference architectures, capability models, and enterprise roadmaps; and guiding cross-organizational adoption of standards, shared services, and authoritative data sources.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Enterprise Architecture Development, Strategy & Governance
• Contribute to the definition, execution, and maturity of the Maximus Enterprise Architecture framework under the guidance of the Senior Principal EA.
• Maintain and enhance enterprise principles, guardrails, and reference models across architecture domains.
• Participate in EA review boards, architecture working groups, and governance forums; prepare analyses and recommendations for senior architectural leadership.
• Assess programs and projects for alignment to enterprise strategies, standards, and target-state architectures.
• Support the development of enterprise capability maps, domain models, and multi-year transformation roadmaps.

Business & Capability Architecture

• Partner with business units to document, analyze, and refine business capabilities, processes, and value streams.
• Identify capability gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for simplification and modernization.
• Translate business strategy into target-state capability models and solution-agnostic architectural recommendations.
• Support adoption of enterprise capability frameworks across programs and delivery teams.

Enterprise Data Architecture

• Work with the data organization to apply and evolve enterprise data standards, data domains, and data governance models.
• Participate in the creation and maintenance of the enterprise data catalog, data lineage, and metadata frameworks.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to guide the design of data pipelines and shared data assets that align with enterprise interoperability and governance.
• Promote enterprise data-sharing patterns, authoritative data sources, and improved data quality practices across teams.
• Information, Application & Integration Architecture
• Assist in defining target-state application portfolios, integration architectures, and shared service patterns.
• Conduct architectural assessments to identify consolidation, rationalization, and modernization opportunities.
• Work with integration and platform teams to support API governance, microservices architectures, and event-driven design.
• Recommend solution patterns that maximize reuse, interoperability, and compliance with enterprise principles.

Technology Architecture & Modernization

• Support the development of enterprise technology standards across cloud, infrastructure, security, and platform services.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and provide input on enterprise adoption, pilot initiatives, and architecture guardrails.
• Partner with DevSecOps, security, and platform teams to promote standardized enterprise technology practices.

Enterprise Advisory & Leadership

• Provide architectural guidance to project teams, product owners, program managers, and technical leaders.
• Communicate architectural decisions, options, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Advocate for enterprise-first thinking, encouraging alignment to shared standards, reusable patterns, and enterprise roadmaps.
• Act as a trusted advisor, escalating enterprise-wide issues and risks to the Senior Principal EA as appropriate.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements

• 10+ years of experience across enterprise architecture domains (business, data, application, technology).
• Occasional travel to Maximus HQ or Client site
• Demonstrated experience designing architectures for complex systems and multi-program environments.
• Working knowledge of enterprise data architecture, metadata management, and data governance.
• Strong understanding of business processes, capability modeling, operating models, and strategic alignment.
• Experience developing technical roadmaps and supporting modernization initiatives.
• Ability to clearly communicate architectural guidance, risks, and recommendations.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive alignment without formal authority.
• Experience contributing to or supporting enterprise architecture governance and standards.

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Minimum Salary

161,440.00

Maximum Salary

242,160.00