Senior Enterprise Architect

Senior Enterprise Architect

Mutual of Omaha is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to lead architecture for a defined business or technology domain. This role is responsible for setting target state architecture, guiding modernization and platform decisions, and ensuring architectural consistency across the enterprise. As a senior member of the Enterprise Architecture practice, you will act as the “CTO for your domain,” partnering with business and technology leaders to translate strategy into scalable, secure, and future‑ready solutions. This includes embedding AI‑enabled and agentic capabilities as a natural part of enterprise platforms and workflows.

What We Can Offer You:

• Estimated Salary: $158,000 - $230,250, plus annual bonus opportunity.
• 401(k) plan with a 2% company contribution and 6% company match.
• Work-life balance with vacation, personal time and paid holidays. See our benefits and perks page for details.
• Applicants for this position must not now, nor at any point in the future, require sponsorship for employment.

What You'll Do:

Architecture Strategy and Domain Leadership

• Own and evolve current and target state architectures for your domain, including data, analytics, AI, and automation.
• Translate business strategy into application, integration, and technology architectures that drive outcomes.
• Serve as the architectural authority for your domain, guiding design and platform decisions.
• Partner with business leaders to apply AI‑driven insights, copilots, and intelligent workflows where they add value.

Modernization and Platforms

• Guide modernization efforts, including legacy rationalization, decommissioning, and adoption of cloud‑native, AI‑ready platforms.
• Ensure architectures support AI and agentic use cases such as retrieval‑augmented generation and intelligent orchestration.
• Shape platform, API, and event strategies that enable scalable and governable solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and advise on proofs of concept.

Governance and Consistency

• Lead and approve Enterprise Architecture Assessments (EAAs), including AI‑enabled solutions.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise standards, security, data governance, privacy, and responsible AI expectations.
• Drive architectural consistency across domains and contribute artifacts to the enterprise architecture repository.

Domain Ownership and Insight

• Maintain visibility into application, technology, data, and integration lifecycles, including AI readiness.
• Deliver an annual State of the Domain covering architecture health, risks, and investment needs.
• Advance API, event, and data maturity to support analytics, AI models, and agent‑driven interactions.

Coaching and Practice Leadership

• Coach and develop architects within your domain.
• Provide input into objectives and performance discussions.
• Help evolve enterprise architecture standards and practices as intelligent systems become core capabilities.

What You’ll Bring:

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise, solution, or domain architecture.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into architectures that include data, analytics, AI, and automation.
• Experience influencing senior leaders in complex organizations.
• Strong knowledge of modern architecture patterns, including cloud, APIs, event‑driven systems, data platforms, and AI‑enabled solutions.
• Experience with architecture governance and design reviews.
• Experience in regulated industries such as insurance or financial services, incorporating compliance and risk considerations into architecture decisions.
• You promote a culture of diversity and inclusion, value different ideas and opinions, and listen courageously, remaining curious in all that you do.
• Able to work remotely with access to a high-speed internet connection and located in the United States or Puerto Rico.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience as a domain or enterprise architecture lead.
• Exposure to AI‑enabled platforms, copilots, intelligent automation, or agentic patterns.
• Experience modernizing legacy environments to become AI‑ready.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills.

Key skills/competency

• Enterprise Architecture
• AI Strategy & Integration
• Cloud-native Platforms
• Modernization Leadership
• Data & Analytics Architecture
• API & Event Strategies
• Architecture Governance
• Financial Services Experience
• Technology Roadmapping
• Stakeholder Influence