IT Enterprise Architecture Manager (Hybrid)

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This position can be based in the Firm's global operations center in Tampa, FL or the Dallas office.

General Description :

We are seeking an IT Enterprise Architect (EA) Manager to join our team. The IT Enterprise Architect Manager will be responsible for overseeing the Solutions Architecture team and proactively and holistically helping and guiding enterprise leaders, product owners, and project teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The person fulfilling this role must have deep technical knowledge in networks, virtualization, cloud, application development, security, and automation tools. A successful EA Manager uses various approaches to construct current and future-state architecture models to support the Firm's growing needs. This person also facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution through a collaborative, supportive, and consultative manner, driving the organization's digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth. This role proactively researches technology trends and identifies new or upgraded systems to help Holland & Knight improve its processes to operate more efficiently. Most importantly, the incumbent in this role must have exceptional communication, leadership, and collaboration skills to help deliver the vision set forth by Firm leadership in alignment with its goals and objectives. This position offers a hybrid schedule, providing flexibility to work from home or the office. Currently, this role requires weekly in-office attendance, as well as participation in occasional team meetings, training sessions, and firm-sponsored events.

Key Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions :

• Works with the CIO, IT, and department leaders to design the required architecture to drive business outcomes.
• Oversees the Solutions Architecture team and leads team members to provide architecture direction, insight, and recommendations.
• Leads the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and technical debt and recommends improvement solutions.
• Responsible for the design, layout, floor plan, power management, capacity management, and cable management for the Firm's data centers and all the remote office MDF and IDF rooms.
• Maintain data center system documentation, including rack elevations.
• Assists with the development and administration of business continuity or disaster recovery plans.
• Helps to define metrics to measure and demonstrate enterprise technology value.
• Construct and maintain deliverables showing Holland & Knight's current and future-state architecture.
• Facilitates the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations
• Develops visualizations to help Firm leadership understand the future state architecture and how it achieves Holland & Knight's goals and objectives.
• Communicates the value of enterprise architecture and its portfolio of services to key stakeholders.
• Works closely with IT peers and product owners to enable infrastructure agility, scalability, and resilience.
• Collaborates with department leaders to develop strategies for innovation and process optimization.
• Coaches and mentors product owners / managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking.

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Benefits : Our goal is to promote a work environment in which individuals have access to the resources they need to be their best both professionally and personally, which includes resources that encourage individuals to focus on their health and well-being.

Below is a list of just some of the benefits we offer : comprehensive medical (PPO and HDHPs), dental and vision plans including coverage for domestic partners; life and AD&D insurance; short and long term disability insurance; tax-advantaged accounts for health care expenses, including FSAs and HSAs; FSAs for dependent care; health advocacy services; behavioral health and counseling resources for all family members; 401(k); profit sharing; pre-tax transit and parking program; backup dependent care; senior care planning support; resources for individuals with development disabilities and their caregivers; and paid holidays and other paid time off, including paid leave for new parents.

Benefits may vary by position and office.

Holland & Knight is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related conditions, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status or any other factor prohibited by law.

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