Principal Enterprise Architecture

What you'll do: We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Enterprise Architect to define and lead the enterprise technology strategy, target architecture, and transformation roadmap across the organization. This individual serves as a senior strategic leader responsible for aligning business objectives, operating models, data, applications, infrastructure, and emerging technologies to create a scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective technology ecosystem. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks, business capability planning, application portfolio management, cloud transformation, AI-enabled solutions, governance, and technology modernization. This role partners closely with business executives, product organizations, engineering teams, security, operations, and technology leaders to establish architecture standards, drive strategic investment decisions, and enable long-term business growth and innovation. Define and lead enterprise architecture strategy, target-state architecture, and transformation roadmaps that align business objectives with scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective technology solutions. Partner with business executives, product organizations, engineering teams, security, operations, and technology leaders to understand business drivers and translate them into practical architecture direction. Design high-level architectural blueprints across applications, data, infrastructure, cloud, AI-enabled solutions, and emerging technologies. Guide technology selection, solution design, and implementation approach while ensuring alignment to enterprise architecture standards and long-term modernization goals. Establish and promote architecture frameworks, governance processes, reusable patterns, standards, and practices across lines of business and value streams. Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities, and determine where they can create measurable business value. Support strategic investment decisions by providing architecture insight, risk assessment, modernization recommendations, and executive-level guidance. Serve as a senior technical advisor and mentor, helping teams solve complex architecture challenges and make sound technology decisions.

Weekly Hours: 40 Time Type: Regular

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, Bothell, Washington, Plano, Texas, USA:TX:Dallas / Three AT&T Plaza (308 S Akard St) - Co:308 S Akard StSalary Range: $155,400.00 - $261,100.00AT&T and its subsidiaries are committed to equal employment opportunity. All hiring, promotion, and other employment decisions remain merit-based and free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical disability, mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made. Click here to learn more or request an application accommodation here.