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We are committed to providing extraordinary service to our customers, helping our employees improve, supporting our communities, and increasing the value of the company for our shareholders.\nPosition Summary\nThis position is responsible for defining and maintaining the organization’s overall architecture framework, ensuring that technology strategy aligns with business objectives. This role provides strategic guidance for technology investments, promotes architectural coherence across systems and processes, and drives innovation through enterprise-level design principles. The Enterprise Architect must have a holistic view of the organization’s technology landscape and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.\nKey Responsibilities\nDevelop and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy, standards, and roadmap for digital platforms, custom applications, portals, integration touchpoints, automation capabilities, AI-enabled business solutions, and the internal AI development capabilities needed to support them.\nProvide architecture leadership across the full solution lifecycle, ensuring digital and AI solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, cost-effective, and aligned with business priorities, enterprise technology direction, and a supported path from experimentation to production.\nTranslate business needs into practical architecture direction by defining target-state designs, transition architectures, platform recommendations, implementation guidance, and developer enablement approaches for product, engineering, and delivery teams.\nEstablish and promote reusable architecture patterns, reference designs, shared repositories, templates, starter kits, decision frameworks, and design review practices that improve consistency, quality, governance, and speed of delivery across digital and AI initiatives.\nGuide AI platform and application architecture, including retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings and vector search, agent and orchestration patterns, API-based model integration, hosted and locally run model options, observability, security, privacy, compliance, prompt and context handling, and human-review guardrails.\nAssess current digital and AI capabilities, emerging technologies, models, vendor solutions, platform fit, technical debt, modernization opportunities, and trade-offs across capability, cost, latency, data sensitivity, hosting constraints, and operational support to inform roadmaps, investment decisions, standards, and lifecycle management.\nBuild prototypes, reference implementations, and proof-of-concepts to validate architectural choices, reduce delivery risk, demonstrate value, and accelerate adoption of effective digital and AI patterns by application teams.\nPartner closely with business stakeholders, enterprise architecture, engineering, security, data, infrastructure, and leadership teams to align solution direction, resolve architecture tradeoffs, mentor developers, and support enterprise adoption.\nWhat is Expected of You and Others at This Level\nDemonstrates expertise in own area within the organization\nRequired specialized depth and/or breadth of experience\nInterprets internal or external business issues and recommends solutions/best practices\nSolves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify solutions\nCompetencies Expected of You and Others at This Level\nBalances Stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders\nBusiness Insight - Applies knowledge of the business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals\nDrives Results - Consistently achieves results, even under challenging circumstances\nManages Ambiguity - Operates effectively in uncertain or unclear situations\nOrganizational Savvy - Maneuvers comfortably through complex policy, process, and people related organizational dynamics\nEducation and Experience\nBachelor’s Degree required in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Master’s Degree preferred\n7-10 years’ relevant experience as an Enterprise or Domain Architect required\nExperience defining architecture direction for digital platforms, customer-facing applications, portals, or internal digital products.\nHands-on experience designing, implementing, or governing AI or machine learning enabled systems in a complex enterprise environment.\nPractical experience working with a range of AI models across hosted and locally run environments, with a working understanding of the capability, cost, performance, security, and data-handling trade-offs between them.\nWorking knowledge of model lifecycle management, model evaluation and benchmarking, and monitoring of AI workloads in production.\nExperience establishing standards, patterns, or guardrails for AI usage in application development.\nExcellent organizational skills and attention to detail \nExcellent written and verbal communication skills \nProficient in Microsoft Office Suite or similar software \nPhysical Requirements and Working Environment\nProlonged periods of sitting at a desk and working at a computer \nThis job description is intended to give you a general understanding of the role and the type of work involved, but it may not include every responsibility or requirement. Employment with The Andersons, Inc. is at will, which means both you and the Company can end the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause or notice, consistent with applicable law, nothing in this description should be viewed as a contract.\nDisclaimer:\nThe Andersons, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment and consider candidates without regard to any status protected by law, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability.\nWe also prioritize a safe and healthy workplace. The Company maintains a drug-free work environment and may require drug, alcohol, and/or medical testing depending on the role.\nTo ensure a consistent hiring process, The Andersons, Inc. does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies that do not have a formal agreement in place and is not responsible for any related fees.\nFinally, we want to help you stay informed and safe during your job search. Please note that The Andersons only uses company email addresses, which contain “@andersonsinc.com” or\"@theandersons.com\", to communicate with candidates via email. If you are contacted by someone about an open job at The Andersons, please verify the domain of the sender’s email address. 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