Director, Digital Consulting Enterprise Architecture

Job description

Who is Trace3? Trace3 is a leading Transformative IT Authority, providing unique technology solutions and consulting services to our clients. Equipped with elite engineering and dynamic innovation, we empower IT executives and their organizations to achieve competitive advantage through a process of Integrate, Automate, Innovate. Our culture at Trace3 embodies the spirit of a startup with the advantage of a scalable business. Employees can grow their career and have fun while doing it! Trace3 is headquartered in Irvine, California. We employ more than 1,200 people all over the United States. Our major field office locations include Denver, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Lexington, Los Angeles, Louisville, Texas, San Francisco. Ready to discover the possibilities that live in technology? Come Join Us! Street-Smart - Thriving in Dynamic Times We are flexible and resilient in a fast-changing environment. We continuously innovate and drive constructive change while keeping a focus on the “big picture.” We exercise sound business judgment in making high-quality decisions in a timely and cost-effective manner. We are highly creative and can dig deep within ourselves to find positive solutions to different problems. Juice - The “Stuff” it takes to be a Needle Mover We get things done and drive results. We lead without a title, empowering others through a can-do attitude. We look forward to the goal, mentally mapping out every checkpoint on the pathway to success, and visualizing what the final destination looks and feels like. Teamwork - Humble, Hungry and Smart We are humble individuals who understand how our job impacts the company's mission. We treat others with respect, admit mistakes, give credit where it’s due and demonstrate transparency. We “bring the weather” by exhibiting positive leadership and solution-focused thinking. We hug people in their trials, struggles, and failures – not just their success. We appreciate the individuality of the people around us. ABOUT THE ROLE: Trace3 is expanding its team of Enterprise Architecture leaders across complementary specialties; successful candidates may be very deep in one primary domain, such as Security, Cloud, Data, AI, Platform Engineering, Resilience, or Enterprise Applications, while demonstrating the judgment and curiosity to stretch across adjacent domains. In addition to driving account growth, executive relationships, and delivery quality, this Director serves as a technical-continuity owner across the account and as part of a broader architecture bench that collectively covers Trace3’s key domains. The role connects architecture and technology decisions to business strategy and funded outcomes, ensures solution coherence across Cloud, Data, AI, Security, and related domains, and gives Trace3 credibility with CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, architects, and engineering teams. This is a hands-on leadership role: the Director remains close enough to the work to review infrastructure-as-code, platform configurations, and engineering designs directly, stabilize accounts under pressure, and lead through influence, technical judgment, and commercial awareness. WHAT YOU'LL DO: • Provide the account's architecture point of view: reference architectures, target-state design, and technology decisions tied to business cases. • Ensure multi-domain solution coherence and non-functional integrity across engagements. • Originate and shape technically credible pursuits and multi-domain programs. • Elevate Trace3's standing with technical executives and engineering stakeholders. • Operate as part of a complementary Enterprise Architecture team, bringing a distinctive domain spike while collaborating with other architect sub-types to provide full-stack coverage across Trace3’s priority domains. • Serve as the named Digital Account Lead for assigned flagship and enterprise accounts when designated, or as the senior architecture lead within another Director's account strategy and governance model when a different Digital Account Lead owns the overall client outcome. • Build and maintain the account strategy, executive relationship plan, stakeholder and initiative maps, engagement history, account roadmap, opportunity priorities, and cross-domain expansion thesis. • Originate, qualify, shape, and advance pursuits that align to client priorities, Trace3's right-to-win, and available delivery capabilities. • Orchestrate account, sales, domain, practice, business-unit, partner, and delivery leaders around one integrated account strategy and client experience. • Maintain sufficient proximity to every active engagement to independently understand delivery health, client sentiment, scope, financial position, major dependencies, risks, solution integrity, and progress toward the business case. • Bring in peer Directors and specialists when another domain is required. On accounts led by another Director, operate as the domain lead within the named Digital Account Lead's account strategy and governance model. Enterprise Architecture and Technical Leadership • Own account-level architecture continuity: current-state assessment, target-state and reference architectures, technology selection, and non-functional requirements across the Director's primary domain and adjacent Trace3 domains, including Cloud, Data, AI, Security, Platform Engineering, Resilience, Enterprise Applications, and Integration where relevant. • Review and provide substantive feedback on key technical and architectural areas (or work with SMEs to do so) • Ensure solutions across engagements to integrate coherently and align to Trace3 well-architected and resilience standards. • Serve as the senior technical authority in client and internal forums; guide engineers, architects, and practice teams without owning line management of them. • Connect architecture decisions to business strategy, cost, risk, and measurable outcomes. • Collaborate with peer Enterprise Architecture Directors to assemble the right architect