Enterprise Architect (Business Architecture Specialization)
With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Key Responsibilities:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
- All CVs should be submitted in English.
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This position is open to candidates based in countries where World Vision International is legally registered to operate.
Provide architectural leadership across multiple initiatives or domains, ensuring solutions are coherent, reusable, and aligned with enterprise direction.
The Enterprise Architect balances business outcomes, technical risk, cost, and sustainability, operating beyond individual solution delivery to shape enterprise-wide outcomes.
This role focuses on enterprise and portfolio-level architecture, not day-to-day solution design.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Enterprise architecture & alignment
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Shape architecture across multiple initiatives, products, and domains to ensure enterprise coherence
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Ensure solution designs align with enterprise standards, target architectures, and transition roadmaps
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Identify cross-domain dependencies, systemic risks, and opportunities for reuse
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Contribute to the development and continuous evolution of enterprise standards and patterns (ownership at Principal Architect level)
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Maintain and curate enterprise architecture views, inventories, and roadmap inputs within the EA repository
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Identify and prioritize architectural risk and technical debt reduction opportunities across initiatives
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Lead development of segment and enterprise architecture views in collaboration with the EA practice
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Act as Solution Architect on exceptionally complex or strategic initiatives where required
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Mentor and guide Solution and Lead Architects to raise architectural maturity
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Contribute to refinement and application of ADS artefacts within EA governance cycles
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Bridge enterprise architectural direction with solution-level execution needs and mitigations
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Act as a trusted architectural advisor to business and technology leaders
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Operate as a generalist enterprise architect with depth across multiple BDAT domains
Advisory & assurance
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Provide architectural input during idea shaping, business case development, and planning
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Review solution architectures for enterprise alignment, risk, and long-term sustainability
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Make architectural trade-offs, risks, and implications explicit to decision-makers
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Support resolution of architectural issues that span domains or teams
Technical debt & transition
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Identify and assess architectural risk and technical debt across initiatives
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Develop and maintain transition architectures (Now → Next → Later)
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Support prioritization of architectural improvements aligned to organizational strategy
PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIORS & CAPABILTIES:
The Enterprise Architect is expected to demonstrate the following behaviors:
Strategic thinking & judgment
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Evaluates architectural options across multiple initiatives or domains
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Balances business value, technical risk, cost, and long-term sustainability
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Applies enterprise-level judgment in ambiguous and complex situations
Communication & architectural storytelling
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Communicates architectural intent, options, and trade-offs clearly to senior and non-technical stakeholders
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Uses conceptual and logical views to support understanding and alignment
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Frames discussions in terms of outcomes, risks, and implications
Stakeholder leadership
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Builds trusted relationships across business, delivery, and technology
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Facilitates constructive architectural discussions and informed decisions
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Navigates competing priorities pragmatically
Influence & collaboration
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Influences through credibility and evidence ra