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The role helps establish and mature an enterprise architecture capability that connects business priorities with technology strategy and execution across the HP Enterprise.\nThe Principal Enterprise Architect translates business strategy into target architectures, transition roadmaps, standards, and investment guidance across business, application, data, integration, cloud, technology, and AI domains. The role promotes reuse and simplification and helps teams deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and business-aligned solutions.\nKey Responsibilities\nHelp define and operationalize the enterprise architecture operating model, principles, methods, standards, decision rights, and measures of value. \nLead architecture for major enterprise initiatives from strategy and discovery through target-state definition, transition planning, and delivery guidance. \nDevelop current-state assessments, target architectures, reference architectures, and multiyear roadmaps for critical enterprise capabilities and platforms. \nConnect business strategy, operating models, and capability needs to technology priorities, portfolio choices, and investment decisions. \nGuide simplification, reuse, interoperability, application rationalization, lifecycle management, and technical debt reduction across a complex global technology landscape. \nAssess complex technology choices and recommend patterns, platforms, and strategic direction based on business value, total cost, scalability, resilience, interoperability, and long-term fit. \nDefine and maintain reusable architecture assets, including principles, standards, reference architectures, patterns, and decision records. \nServe on the Architecture Review Board, providing pragmatic review, constructive challenge, and clear guidance without creating unnecessary delivery friction. \nPartner with strategy, product, engineering, data, cloud, security, infrastructure, and business technology leaders to align domain plans with enterprise direction. \nInfluence portfolio planning and investment decisions by clarifying dependencies, tradeoffs, transition costs, architectural risk, and the business consequences of technology choices. \nCoach architects and senior technologists and strengthen shared practices, reusable assets, and consistent architecture methods across organizational boundaries. \nCommunicate complex architecture topics clearly to executives, business leaders, architects, engineers, and delivery teams. \nAI Platform Architecture and Enablement\nThe role sets enterprise architecture direction and guardrails for AI-enabled capabilities and partners with specialized platform, data, security, and engineering teams on detailed design and delivery.\nGuide platform teams in designing enterprise AI platforms that support generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, MLOps, enterprise data access, model lifecycle management, and observability at scale. \nDefine reusable guardrails and patterns for AI security, privacy, responsible use, data protection, identity and access, model governance, resilience, interoperability, and cost-effective scaling. \nGuide evaluation and adoption of AI capabilities embedded in SaaS and vendor-packaged software, including integration patterns, enterprise data use, workflow enablement, vendor fit, overlap, and sustainable business value. \nPromote consistent AI platform capabilities and integration approaches that limit fragmentation, duplicated investment, unmanaged risk, and isolated solutions. \nApply AI within the enterprise architecture function to improve architecture knowledge retrieval, portfolio analysis, documentation, standards analysis, review preparation, and roadmap scenario modeling. \nStakeholder Engagement\nBuild trusted relationships with senior business, Digital, and technology leaders. Facilitate decisions across organizational boundaries, present clear options and tradeoffs, and create alignment around enterprise direction while respecting domain ownership and delivery accountability.\nRequired Qualifications\n12 or more years of progressive technology experience, including enterprise architecture experience in a large, complex, global organization. \nDemonstrated experience developing target architectures, reference architectures, standards, and multiyear transformation roadmaps across multiple architecture domains. \nExperience shaping enterprise technology strategy and influencing major platform, portfolio, modernization, and investment decisions without relying on direct reporting authority. \nExperience partnering with platform and engineering teams on cloud, data, integration, SaaS, packaged applications, and AI-enabled capabilities. \nAbility to translate business strategy and operating-model needs into practical, business-aligned technology direction. \nAbility to communicate architecture recommendations and tradeoffs clearly to executives, business leaders, architects, engineers, and delivery teams. \nPreferred Qualifications\nBachelor's or graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. \nFamiliarity with established enterprise architecture frameworks and methods. Practical application and sound architectural judgment are more important than certification. \nKnowledge and Skills\nEnterprise Architecture and Technology\nEnterprise architecture strategy, operating models, principles, governance, and value measurement \nBusiness capability modeling, value streams, operating-model alignment, technology strategy, target-state architecture, transition architecture, roadmapping, scenario planning, and dependency analysis \nApplication portfolio strategy, modernization, rationalization, lifecycle management, and technical debt \nData, integration, APIs, event-driven systems, cloud, platform, infrastructure, and distributed-system architecture \nSaaS and vendor-packaged software evaluation, integration, extensibility, and platform fit \nArchitecture modeling, reference architectures, reusable patterns, architecture decisions, and executive-level visual communication \nFinancial and commercial awareness, including total cost of ownership, investment tradeoffs, and vendor considerations \nAI and Cross Organizational Leadership\nEnterprise AI platforms, generative and agentic AI patterns, MLOps, AI lifecycle management, and responsible AI guardrails \nEnterprise mindset that balances strategic consistency, business outcomes, domain needs, and delivery realities \nInfluence, facilitation, negotiation, and decision-framing skills across senior and highly technical audiences \nAbility to simplify complex issues, make tradeoffs transparent, and create alignment without direct authority \nStrong judgment, intellectual curiosity, learning agility, and comfort working through ambiguity \nAbility to operate effectively with global teams across functions, business units, and time zones \nCommitment to practical architecture that accelerates delivery while improving long-term enterprise outcomes \nPay & Benefits\nThe pay range for this role is $147,050 to $230,850 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.\nBenefits:\nHP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:\nHealth insurance\nDental insurance\nVision insurance\nLong term/short term disability insurance\nEmployee assistance program\nFlexible spending account\nLife insurance\nGenerous time off policies, including;\n4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure\n11 paid holidays\nAdditional flexible paid vacation and sick leave\nUS benefits overview https://hpbenefits.ce.alight.com/\nThe compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this\nposting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time,\nwith or without notice, subject to applicable law.\nJob -\nData & Information TechnologySchedule -\nFull timeShift -\nNo shift premium (United States of America)Travel -\nRelocation -\nEqual Opportunity Employer (EEO)-\nHP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s).\nPlease be assured that you will not be subject to any adverse treatment if you choose to disclose the information requested. This information is provided voluntarily. 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