Enterprise Application Architect

Title: Enterprise Application Architect

Location: Eagle, ID

About Lamb Weston

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A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Job Description Summary

The Senior Principal Enterprise Architect is a strategic leader responsible for aligning technology initiatives with business goals. This role drives enterprise-wide architecture strategy, ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions that support innovation and operational excellence. The EA works directly with top-level management to review business plans, assess the company’s current use of IT systems, and design new procedures to improve efficiency and cut costs.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise Architecture Leadership

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy, principles, and ensure roadmap alignment with business objectives.
• Define and promote architecture standards, frameworks, and governance processes.

Strategic Technology Planning

• Evaluate current IT systems and identify opportunities for modernization, consolidation, and innovation.
• Lead the selection and adoption of platforms and technologies that maximize business value.

Solution Design & Oversight

• Review end-to-end solution designs ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business objectives.
• Provide architectural oversight for major initiatives, including cloud migration, digital transformation, platform integration, and AI adoption.

Innovation & Emerging Technologies

• Research and assess emerging technologies and trends; recommend adoption strategies to enhance competitiveness and agility.
• Champion a cloud-first, global-over-regional approach to technology deployment.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with business leaders to understand strategic goals and translate them into technology capabilities.
• Influence and guide decision-making across IT and business units.

Governance & Risk Management

• Ensure systems are secure, scalable, and compliant with regulatory and internal standards.
• Lead risk assessments and mitigation strategies related to architecture decisions.

Mentorship & Leadership

• Provide thought leadership and mentorship to architects and technical teams.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and architectural excellence.

Application EA Domain Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target state architecture for enterprise applications.
• Lead application portfolio rationalization efforts.
• Establish and enforce application architecture standards.
• Partner with business and IT stakeholders to evaluate and select application platforms.
• Provide architectural oversight for major application initiatives.
• Ensure application designs support scalability, security, interoperability, and performance requirements, in alignment with enterprise-wide technical standards.
• Monitor and assess emerging application technologies and trends.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, data, and security architects to ensure cohesive and integrated architecture across domains.
• Develop and maintain application reference architectures and roadmaps.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

• 10+ years work experience in consulting, systems, integration or architect role
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF preferred)
• Deep knowledge of enterprise platforms and cloud technologies (SAP, Salesforce, AWS, etc.)
• Experience in creating and leading architecture initiatives
• Strong business acumen and ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent leadership, collaboration, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and influence cross-functional teams.

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive.  Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts

• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program

• Paid Time Off

• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance

• Family-Friendly Employee events

• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Job Requisition ID: Req-258512

Time Type: Full time

The anticipated close date is a good faith estimate for when this job will be closed. Some jobs may be unposted or filled earlier or later than the Anticipated Close Date depending on interview processes and business needs. Anticipated Close Date: 11/01/2025

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate’s work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $160,070.00 - $240,110.00

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law