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ECCO Select is a talent acquisition and consulting company specializing in people, process and technology solutions. We provide the talent behind the technology enabling our clients to achieve their goals. For more information about ECCO Select, visit us at www.eccoselect.com . Position Title: Enterprise Architecture Review Board (ARB) Lead Location Information Houston, TX – Onsite Position Responsibilities: The Enterprise Architecture Review Board (ARB) Lead will drive enterprise architecture governance by ensuring new technology initiatives align with organizational architecture standards, security requirements, and business strategies. The ARB Lead works cross-functionally with business stakeholders, architects, cybersecurity experts, and technology leaders to review and validate technology solutions, identify risks, and maintain architectural integrity across the enterprise. Key responsibilities include: • Leading and facilitating the Enterprise Architecture Review Board (EARB) meetings, overseeing the review of proposed technology solutions and architecture designs. • Evaluating architecture submissions to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, and overall business objectives. • Overseeing solution reviews covering cloud, infrastructure, application, data, integration, and cybersecurity domains. • Identifying architectural risks, technology gaps, dependencies, redundancies, and opportunities for standardization and optimization. • Collaborating with enterprise architects, solution architects, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to resolve design issues and recommend best-fit solutions. • Ensuring proposals comply with organizational cybersecurity requirements, regulatory constraints, data governance standards, and established technology guidelines. • Establishing and maintaining architecture review and governance processes, decision logs, and formal documentation. • Providing actionable recommendations and expert guidance to project teams across the entire solution design and implementation lifecycle. • Tracking review outcomes, exceptions, remediation actions, and approval decisions to drive continual improvement and compliance. • Communicating architectural recommendations, key decisions, and risks to senior IT leadership and executive stakeholders. • Facilitating, documenting, and reporting on ARB meetings, architecture decision records, and review assessment outcomes. • Maintaining up-to-date records on architecture standards, governance documentation, exception tracking, and risk and remediation action logs. • Reporting consistently on architecture compliance, review outcomes, and outstanding architecture decisions within the enterprise. Essential Skills, Experience • 7+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, IT governance, or technology design within large or complex enterprise environments. • Hands-on experience leading or facilitating architecture review boards or implementing enterprise architecture governance processes. • Deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, reference architectures, and technology standards. • Comprehensive knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), infrastructure, application architecture, data platforms, integration technologies, and cybersecurity practices. • Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex technology solutions and communicate architectural risks, trade-offs, and recommendations effectively. • Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams. • Excellent facilitation, presentation, and documentation skills, with a detail-oriented approach to decision logging and governance documentation. • Competence in tracking review outcomes, remediation actions, exceptions, and compliance with technology and security standards. • Ability to balance multiple priorities and work in fast-paced, dynamic environments while upholding architectural integrity and governance standards. Qualifications: • Professional experience with enterprise architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF or Zachman. • TOGAF certification or comparable enterprise architecture credentials (preferred). • Experience designing or reviewing cloud architectures on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud platforms. • Familiarity with architecture governance tools, standards repositories, and creating/managing technology roadmaps. • Demonstrated success working within large-scale, complex enterprise settings. ECCO Select is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. Our policy is to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category. Veterans of our United States Uniformed Services are specifically encouraged to apply for ECCO Select opportunities. 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Position Title: Enterprise Architecture Review Board (ARB) Lead
Location Information
Houston, TX – Onsite
Leading and facilitating the Enterprise Architecture Review Board (EARB) meetings, overseeing the review of proposed technology solutions and architecture designs.
Evaluating architecture submissions to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, and overall business objectives.
Overseeing solution reviews covering cloud, infrastructure, application, data, integration, and cybersecurity domains.
Identifying architectural risks, technology gaps, dependencies, redundancies, and opportunities for standardization and optimization.
Collaborating with enterprise architects, solution architects, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to resolve design issues and recommend best-fit solutions.
Ensuring proposals comply with organizational cybersecurity requirements, regulatory constraints, data governance standards, and established technology guidelines.
Establishing and maintaining architecture review and governance processes, decision logs, and formal documentation.
Providing actionable recommendations and expert guidance to project teams across the entire solution design and implementation lifecycle.
Tracking review outcomes, exceptions, remediation actions, and approval decisions to drive continual improvement and compliance.
Communicating architectural recommendations, key decisions, and risks to senior IT leadership and executive stakeholders.
Facilitating, documenting, and reporting on ARB meetings, architecture decision records, and review assessment outcomes.
Maintaining up-to-date records on architecture standards, governance documentation, exception tracking, and risk and remediation action logs.
Reporting consistently on architecture compliance, review outcomes, and outstanding architecture decisions within the enterprise.
Essential Skills, Experience
7+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, IT governance, or technology design within large or complex enterprise environments.
Hands-on experience leading or facilitating architecture review boards or implementing enterprise architecture governance processes.
Deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, reference architectures, and technology standards.
Comprehensive knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), infrastructure, application architecture, data platforms, integration technologies, and cybersecurity practices.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex technology solutions and communicate architectural risks, trade-offs, and recommendations effectively.
Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.

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TOGAF certification or comparable enterprise architecture credentials (preferred).

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