Senior Managing Director, Architecture (M4)

You will partner with Save the Children International (SCI) to align the Save the Children US (SCUS) architecture decisions and roadmaps globally to reduce technical debt, improve capability maturity, and advance digital transformation at scale. Guide and support the organization’s overall enterprise architecture as a technology expert across all architecture domains, ensuring alignment across business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.Establish, maintain, and enforce enterprise architecture standards, principles, reference architectures, patterns, and documentation practices from solution design through implementation and operational handoff.Provide strategic consultation and architectural leadership for the agency’s digital transformation goals, ensuring technology solutions are scalable, secure, interoperable, cost-effective, and aligned to business value.Chair or actively support architecture governance forums, design review boards, and technology decision-making processes to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, security requirements, business priorities, and long-term technology strategy.Develop and maintain current-state and future-state architecture views, roadmaps, capability maps, and transition plans that support enterprise modernization and informed executive decision-making.Ensure architecture decisions are documented, communicated, and traceable, with clear rationale, risks, dependencies, and alignment to enterprise strategy, standards, and governance expectations. Lead and manage the Enterprise Architecture team, providing architectural leadership, governance and direction to domain architects across data, cybersecurity, infrastructure, applications, and solution architecture through effective dotted-line and matrix management practices.Train, develop, coach, lead, and supervise staff, clearly communicating organization, division and department priorities, and how their work contributes to our mission and supports Save the Children values.Partner with SCI to align the SCUS architecture decisions and roadmaps globally to reduce technical debt, improve capability maturity, and advance digital transformation at scale.Partner with business leaders, product owners, program teams, cybersecurity, data, infrastructure, and application teams to translate business needs into practical, secure, and sustainable architecture solutions.Guide the development and adoption of best practices in technology architecture, including cloud architecture, integration strategy, platform rationalization, data governance, cybersecurity-by-design, and lifecycle management.Maintain visibility into the enterprise technology applications and platforms portfolio and identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, simplify platforms, improve interoperability, retire redundant systems, and optimize technology investments.Evaluate relevant emerging technologies, including AI, and provide recommendations on their responsible adoption, architectural fit, risk profile, and business value.Establish architectural guardrails and governance for the responsible adoption of AI and other relevant emerging technologies.Leverage modern and leading enterprise architecture practices to enable business and technology transformation and improve the organization’s ability to deliver value at scale. Actual base salary may vary based on, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here). Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact.

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