Presales Enterprise Architect - Data, AI & Cloud

About Argano

Argano is the first of its kind: a digital consultancy totally immersed in high-performance operations. We steward enterprises through ever-evolving markets, empowering them with transformative strategies and technologies to exceed customer expectations, unlock commercial innovation, and drive optimal efficiency and growth. For more information, visit www.argano.com

JOB SUMMARY

The Presales Enterprise Architect - Data, AI & Cloud is a director strategic technology individual contributor responsible for defining and guiding enterprise architecture across complex digital transformation programs. This role partners closely with executive stakeholders (including C-suite leaders) to align business goals with technology strategy, shape target-state architectures and modernization roadmaps, and ensure architectural decisions support long-term scalability, security, performance, and business value.

This leader provides architectural oversight across cloud, data, analytics, integration, automation, AI, and enterprise platform initiatives, ensuring cohesive solutions across teams and avoiding siloed implementations. They also drive architecture governance, establish standards and reusable patterns, mentor architects and senior technologists, and influence delivery quality and engineering maturity across engagements.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years of enterprise or solution architecture experience, strong executive presence, deep cross-platform technical expertise, and a proven track record leading large-scale enterprise transformations in consulting or complex enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Leadership

• Own and drive enterprise architecture strategy across complex transformation programs.
• Define target-state architectures, roadmaps, and modernization strategies aligned to business outcomes.
• Guide architectural decisions that balance scalability, security, performance, cost, and time-to-value. Define and maintain enterprise reference architectures, standards, and reusable design patterns across practices.
• Ensure architectural decisions support long-term scalability and operational sustainability, not just near-term delivery

Executive Advisory & Business Partnership

• Partner directly with C-suite and senior business leaders to shape digital strategy and technology direction.
• Translate business drivers into architectural approaches and investment recommendations.
• Serve as a primary architectural voice in executive forums, steering committees, and client leadership sessions.
• Act as a trusted advisor and support client decision-making by clearly articulating architectural risks, dependencies, and options.

Solution Strategy & Oversight

• Provide senior architectural leadership across CRM, cloud, data, analytics, integration, automation, and AI initiatives.
• Ensure solution designs are cohesive across platforms and teams, avoiding siloed implementations.
• Lead architectural governance for major programs and ensure alignment to enterprise standards.
• Partner closely with sales and solutions teams to shape solution strategy, scope, and delivery approaches for complex pursuits.

Cross-Platform Technology Stewardship

• Maintain broad awareness across enterprise platforms, emerging technologies, and industry trends.
• Evaluate new technologies and patterns, guiding adoption based on business value rather than novelty.
• Embed security, privacy, and compliance requirements into architecture designs.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise quality, reliability, and supportability expectations.

Organizational Influence & Credibility

• Establish and evolve architecture principles, frameworks, and best practices across Argano engagements.
• Mentor solution architects and senior technologists.
• Build strong internal credibility by setting architectural direction and raising overall engineering maturity.
• Actively collaborate with delivery leaders to support execution, resolve architectural issues, and reduce delivery risk.

Thought Leadership

• Contribute to Argano’s technical thought leadership through client engagements, internal enablement, and strategic initiatives.
• Help shape offerings, accelerators, and architectural approaches that strengthen Argano’s market position.
• Support internal education and enablement by sharing architectural patterns, lessons learned and best practices.

Required Skills & Experience

• 15 plus years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or senior technology leadership roles.
• Proven track record leading architecture for large-scale enterprise transformations.
• Strong executive presence with experience advising C-suite stakeholders.
• Broad technical depth across cloud platforms, integration architectures, data & analytics, enterprise applications, and customer experience technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to align technology strategy directly to business outcomes.
• Experience in consulting or complex enterprise environments strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at all organizational levels.

Same Posting Description for Internal and External Candidates

Argano is the first of its kind: a digital consultancy totally immersed in high-performance operations. We steward enterprises through ever-evolving markets, empowering them with transformative strategies and technologies to exceed customer expectations, unlock commercial innovation, and drive optimal efficiency and growth.