Enterprise Architect

About the opportunity

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect to help lead the architecture change process governed by our Architecture Review Board (ARB). In this role you will evaluate proposed solutions across the full enterprise architecture landscape, including Business, Data, Application, and Technology (BDAT), and guide project and solution teams toward designs that are sound, secure, cost-effective, and strategically aligned.

This is a breadth-first role with depth in at least one domain. You will spend less time building systems and more time shaping how systems fit together.

Our environment includes on-premises data centers, mainframe workloads deployed to cloud, and a substantial Microsoft Azure footprint, so practical hybrid-enterprise experience matters.

Your Day-to-Day at Sagent

Architecture Governance and the Review Board

• Co-lead the intake, triage, and review of architecture change requests entering the ARB.
• Assess proposals against enterprise architecture principles, reference architectures, standards, and target-state roadmaps.
• Facilitate ARB sessions, surface trade-offs, and drive to a clear outcome.
• Author and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), conditional approvals, and time-bound exceptions or waivers.
• Track accepted architecture risk and technical debt created through waivers.
• Evolve the governance process itself, including review criteria, templates, and fast-track paths.
• Coach solution architects, engineers, and product teams so proposals arrive review-ready.

Business Architecture

• Develop and maintain business capability models, value streams, and business process views.
• Trace proposed changes back to business drivers, outcomes, and capability gaps.
• Partner with business stakeholders and product owners to translate strategy into architecture requirements.
• Perform capability-based gap analysis between current and target state.

Data Architecture

• Define and govern enterprise data architecture, including conceptual and logical data models, canonical and reference data, and authoritative sources of record.
• Review proposed changes for data integration patterns, latency, consistency, lineage, and downstream impact.
• Partner with data governance, privacy, and security functions on data classification, retention, and regulatory obligations.
• Guide the architecture of analytics and data platforms, including data warehouse, lakehouse, streaming, and master data management.
• Reduce data duplication and point-to-point sprawl by promoting shared data services and interoperability standards.

Application Architecture

• Maintain the application portfolio and lead rationalization efforts to reduce redundancy and cost.
• Define application reference architectures and patterns for integration, API strategy, event-driven messaging, and modernization of legacy and mainframe-hosted workloads.
• Guide build-versus-buy-versus-configure decisions, including SaaS evaluation and total cost of ownership.
• Ensure proposed applications meet non-functional requirements such as availability, scalability, performance, observability, and resilience.
• Set standards for API management, interface contracts, and versioning.

Technology Architecture

• Own and evolve technology reference architectures and standards across on-premises, hybrid, and Azure environments.
• Provide architectural direction for cloud and hybrid network design, including segmentation, connectivity, and Azure landing zones.
• Embed security and identity architecture into designs, including zero-trust principles, encryption, and secrets management.
• Set expectations for resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Maintain a technology lifecycle view and technology radar.
• Partner with platform and DevOps teams on Infrastructure as Code, automation, and reference implementations.

Cross-Cutting Responsibilities

• Apply a structured architecture method (TOGAF ADM or equivalent) proportionally.
• Maintain the architecture repository, metamodel, and artifact standards.
• Contribute to multi-year architecture roadmaps, portfolio planning, and cloud cost optimization (FinOps).
• Communicate architecture positions to audiences from engineering teams to executive leadership.
• Influence outcomes without direct authority.

We'd Love to Hear from You If You Have

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Experience

• Significant experience in enterprise, domain, or solution architecture, across at least three of the four BDAT domains and deep expertise in at least one.
• Direct experience participating in or supporting an Architecture Review Board, design authority, or comparable governance body.
• Experience developing architecture artifacts that were actually used, such as capability models, roadmaps, reference architectures, and decision records.
• Hands-on background in a hybrid enterprise environment spanning on-premises infrastructure and a major public cloud, with practical Azure experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with application portfolio rationalization, integration architecture, or large-scale modernization of legacy or mainframe-hosted workloads.
• Exposure to regulated or audited environments.

Certifications

• TOGAF certification (Foundation or Practitioner) strongly preferred; equivalent frameworks are also valued.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert or comparable cloud architecture certification.
• Certifications in security, data, or integration domains are a plus.

Skills

• Strong grasp of enterprise integration patterns, API and event-driven architecture, and the trade-offs between them.
• Solid data architecture fundamentals, including modeling, master and reference data, and analytics platform patterns.
• Working knowledge of Azure PaaS and SaaS services, networking, identity, and security controls, including routing, VPNs, firewalls, and load balancing.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling (Terraform, PowerShell, Python).
• Ability to evaluate and articulate cost, risk, and TCO implications of architecture options.

Soft Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Strong facilitation skills and the composure to run a room where stakeholders disagree.
• Analytical rigor balanced with pragmatism.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity, incomplete information, and competing priorities.
• Collaborative and credible with both technical practitioners and business leaders.

Perks

• Eligibility for benefit programs beginning on Day 1, including Remote/Hybrid workplace options, Health Benefits, Unlimited Flexible Time Off, Family Planning Services, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Family Leave, 401(k) Matching, Pet Insurance, Career Pathing, and Focus Time Fridays.

Why Sagent?

Sagent is transforming the mortgage servicing industry by bringing the modern experience customers now expect from loan originations to loan servicing. Sagent is a joint venture that combines Fiserv Inc.'s fintech expertise with Warburg Pincus' skill in growing technology companies.

Sagent is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Why you'll LOVE Sagent

You could work anywhere. We know you are talented and looking for something inspiring and impactful. Sagent powers servicers and consumers. You power Sagent!