Enterprise Architecture Priorities

A strategic overview of the key responsibilities and focus areas for a successful Enterprise Architecture leader.

1. Business-IT Alignment

  • - Understand business goals, strategies, and market drivers.
  • - Ensure technology architecture supports business outcomes.
  • - Facilitate communication between IT and business leadership.

2. EA Governance

  • - Establish and enforce architecture standards and guidelines.
  • - Lead the Architecture Review Board (ARB).
  • - Oversee compliance with regulatory, security, and data governance.

3. Strategy & Roadmapping

  • - Develop multi-year architecture roadmaps.
  • - Define technology standards and future-state architectures.
  • - Identify modernization and transformation initiatives.

4. Portfolio Management

  • - Assess and rationalize the technology stack and vendor ecosystem.
  • - Guide decisions on build vs. buy and platform selection.
  • - Oversee legacy system reduction and tech debt management.

5. Innovation & Emerging Tech

  • - Evaluate emerging technologies for strategic fit.
  • - Recommend proofs of concept (PoCs) and pilots.
  • - Partner with business on digital innovation initiatives.

6. Risk & Security Architecture

  • - Align security architecture with enterprise risk frameworks.
  • - Ensure resilience, business continuity, and compliance.

7. Team Leadership & Building

  • - Lead and mentor architects.
  • - Build architecture practice maturity.
  • - Promote cross-team collaboration.

8. Stakeholder Engagement

  • - Communicate architecture vision to executive leadership.
  • - Build partnerships with business units and IT leaders.
  • - Support strategic decision-making with architectural insights.

9. Operational Excellence

  • - Monitor architecture effectiveness and value delivery.
  • - Drive continuous improvement in architecture processes.
  • - Measure impact through KPIs.