Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture - Enterprise, Operations & Strategy

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) is a nationally recognized, top-tier public research university that unites the power of higher education, biomedical discovery and healthcare within one visionary institution. As the third-largest research university in Texas and a Carnegie R1-designated institution, UT San Antonio is a model of access and excellence — advancing knowledge, social mobility and public health across South Texas and beyond. UT San Antonio serves approximately 42,000 students in 320 academic programs spanning science, engineering, medicine, health, liberal arts, AI, cybersecurity, business, education and more. With 17,000 faculty and staff, UT San Antonio has also been recognized as a Top Employer in Texas by Forbes Magazine. Learn more online, on UT San Antonio Today or on X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or LinkedIn.

Salary Range: Commensurate with education, experience, and qualifications.

Job Type: Full Time

Posting Close Date: Applications will be accepted through 11:59 PM CDT on 10/1/2026.  At the discretion of the hiring department, this posting may close once a sufficient number of qualified applications have been received.

Required Application Materials:

• Resume is required.
• Cover letter is required.
• Contact information for three professional references.  

Job Summary

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture provides strategic leadership for the institution's enterprise architecture function, ensuring a cohesive technology vision that supports academic, research, clinical, and administrative priorities.  Serving as a trusted advisor to the CIO and executive leadership, this role oversees enterprise, business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security architecture, aligning technology investments with institutional goals and long-term strategic objectives.

The Senior Director develops the enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap, establishes governance and architectural standards, and guides modernization and digital transformation initiatives across the institution. The role leads a multidisciplinary architecture team, chairs the Architecture Review Board, and partners closely with IT and business leaders to drive collaboration, reduce technical debt, and deliver scalable, secure, and sustainable technology solutions that support mission outcomes and future growth.

Core Responsibilities

1. Defines and executes the enterprise architecture vision and multi-year roadmap aligned with institutional academic, research, clinical, and administrative priorities.
2. Serves as the institution's senior architecture representative with executive leadership, external partners, and industry stakeholders.
3. Establishes and chairs architecture governance forums, including the Architecture Review Board, and defines architectural standards, principles, and decision frameworks.
4. Implements governance processes that balance standardization, risk management, and innovation while enabling efficient technology delivery.
5. Develops and maintains the enterprise architecture operating model, services, processes, and stakeholder engagement framework.
6. Leads enterprise, business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, and security architecture practices across the institution.
7. Maintains current and future-state architecture models that support strategic planning, modernization, and investment decisions.
8. Drives application portfolio rationalization and provides recommendations for investment, modernization, consolidation, and retirement strategies.
9. Establishes enterprise data architecture standards supporting analytics, data governance, AI, and institutional decision-making.
10. Defines architectural direction for enterprise identity, integration, API, and platform strategies.
11. Leads modernization initiatives, including legacy system transformation, cloud adoption, platform consolidation, and technology lifecycle management.
12. Establishes frameworks for measuring, prioritizing, and reducing technical debt across the technology portfolio.
13. Evaluates emerging technologies and identifies opportunities to leverage innovations such as AI, advanced analytics, and new platform capabilities.
14. Embeds architecture practices into project and product delivery through standards, reusable patterns, and advisory support.
15. Partners with technology and business leaders to align roadmaps and resolve enterprise-wide architectural challenges.
16. Provides architectural oversight for major procurements, vendor evaluations, and strategic technology investments.
17. Partners with cybersecurity leadership to incorporate security, privacy, and risk management into enterprise architecture practices and standards.
18. Ensures technology architectures support applicable regulatory, compliance, and research requirements while promoting scalable and sustainable solutions.
19. Defines institutional cloud strategies, including workload placement, architecture standards, security baselines, and cost management practices.
20. Provides architectural leadership for enterprise platforms, ensuring integration, interoperability, and consistent user experiences.
21. Establishes enterprise AI and data platform strategies that support responsible, well-governed use of emerging technologies.
22. Integrates technology risk management into architecture governance and supports enterprise risk, compliance, and audit initiatives.
23. Establishes architecture standards that promote business continuity, disaster recovery, operational resilience, and service reliability.
24. Partners with portfolio and program leadership to ensure technology investments align with strategic priorities, financial goals, and risk tolerance.
25. Fosters an environment of accountability, transparency, continuous improvement, and disciplined execution.
26. Builds and mentors a high-performing architecture team with expertise across business, application, data, cloud, integration, and infrastructure domains.
27. Develops architecture communities of practice that promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, and institutional architectural maturity.
28. Manages the architecture function's budget, service portfolio, operational performance, and stakeholder satisfaction.
29. Maintains and communicates enterprise technology roadmaps to support strategic planning and decision-making.
30. Contributes to capital planning, vendor rationalization, and long-term technology investment strategies in partnership with executive leadership.
31. Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• Ten (10) years of progressive experience enterprise, business, application, data, or infrastructure architecture, including a minimum of five years leading multidisciplinary architecture teams at scale.
• Demonstrated success defining and executing an enterprise architecture vision and multiyear roadmap in a complex, distributed institution, with measurable impact on modernization, technical debt reduction, or strategic technology direction.
• Proven experience establishing architecture governance, including review boards, architectural principles, reference patterns, and the decision rights that connect architecture to product, project, and procurement decisions.
• Depth in at least three architecture disciplines, such as business architecture, application and integration architecture, data architecture, infrastructure and cloud architecture, or security architecture, with credible working knowledge across the others.
• This position may require the ability to maintain the security and integrity of UT San Antonio and its infrastructure per Texas EO-GA-48.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strategic Thinking
• Communication
• Leadership
• Influence
• Collaboration
• Relationship Building
• Stewardship
• Business Acumen
• Change Management
• Organizational Awareness
• Stakeholder Management
• Digital Transformation
• Technology Strategy
• Enterprise Architecture

Working Conditions

• Office Environment. Ability to travel to and from meetings, training sessions or other business-related events. After hours and weekend work is required on an occasional basis. Occasional after hours and weekend work or overtime may be required.

Physical Demands

• Sedentary work; sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary, if walking and standing are required, only occasionally. Exerts up to 10 lbs. of force occasional.

This position will work primarily on campus. Travel and parking expenses are the employee's responsibility.

This position is contingent upon a successful background check. Verification of a valid driver's license and Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) may be completed as applicable. Applicants selected must be able to show proof of eligibility to work in the United States by time of hire.

Equal Employment Opportunity

As an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer, it is the policy of The University of Texas at San Antonio to promote and ensure equal employment opportunity for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetic information, and veteran status. The University is committed to the Affirmative Action Program in compliance with all government requirements to ensure nondiscrimination.