Enterprise Architect

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Experience: 15+ Years

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to define and drive the enterprise technology strategy, target architecture, and modernization roadmap. The role will serve as the key architecture liaison between client, partner, and offshore teams, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology solutions while providing bilingual (Japanese-English) stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, target state, and transformation roadmap.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, governance frameworks, and best practices.
• Review and guide solution designs across application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure domains.
• Drive technology modernization initiatives and strategic architecture decisions.
• Align business goals with technology strategy and enterprise capabilities.
• Identify architecture risks, manage deviations, and ensure governance compliance.
• Act as the primary architecture interface across business and technology stakeholders.
• Provide bilingual architecture communication and support technical leadership teams.

Mandatory Skills

• 15+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture and Technology Leadership.
• Strong expertise in:
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Technology Strategy
  • Enterprise Application Architecture
  • Solution Governance
  • Stakeholder Management
• Broad understanding of:
  • Application Architecture
  • Integration Architecture
  • Data Architecture
  • Security Architecture
  • Infrastructure Architecture
• Business-level communication skills in Japanese and English.

Preferred Skills

• Cloud Architecture
• Integration Architecture
• Security Architecture
• Data Architecture
• TOGAF or similar Enterprise Architecture frameworks

Good-to-Have

• Capital Markets domain experience
• Digital Transformation initiatives
• API-first and Event-Driven Architecture
• Data Governance frameworks

Expected Deliverables

• Enterprise Architecture Principles & Standards
• Current-State and Target-State Architecture Models
• Technology Transformation Roadmap
• Architecture Governance Framework
• Architecture Reviews, Risk Assessments, and Decision Logs