Senior Enterprise Architect

What You Can Expect

As the Senior Enterprise Architect in Houston, Texas, for ENGIE North America, you will play a pivotal role in supporting Renewable and Flexible Power and Local Energy Infrastructures business units. You will align technology investments with the company’s strategic goals, providing technology guidance, developing roadmaps, and establishing principles, standards, and best practices to drive business value. Your role will involve collaborating with business and Information Technology (IT) leaders to balance operational demands with long-term strategic vision, ensuring that technology decisions support innovation and efficiency. In this role, you will be a key driver in ENGIE’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) program, shaping the digital landscape to optimize performance and enable sustainable growth.

Reporting to the Head of Portfolio Management and Innovation, your duties will include:

• Enterprise Architecture Leadership – Define, guide, and oversee IT architecture to support corporate strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals. Develop and maintain enterprise-wide architecture frameworks, roadmaps, and governing principles.
• Governance & Compliance – Lead EA governance processes, manage architectural exceptions, and establish policies, standards, and best practices. Ensure technical solutions meet conceptual completeness.
• Strategic Consulting & Collaboration – Advise business and IT leaders on technology strategy, risks, trade-offs, and investments. Work with project teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture while accommodating project needs.
• Technology & Innovation – Support the adoption of  emerging technologies, tools, and industry trends, ensuring relevance and timely deployment. Drive innovation by optimizing technology investments.
• Communication & Training – Develop enterprise-level architecture communication plans, promote EA processes, and ensure organizational awareness. Define skill requirements for architecture teams, oversee recruitment strategy for the team, and lead training and development initiatives.
• Budget & Resource Allocation – Collaborate with senior leadership on budget allocation for architectural initiatives critical to business success.

What You’ll Bring

• A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, system analysis, or a related field
• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in Information Technology and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations
• Leadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders
• Requires exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture, business re-engineering principles and processes, and basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting

Additional Details

• This role is eligible for our hybrid work policy; consisting of three (3) days in-office and two (2) days remote
• Must be willing and able to comply with all ENGIE ethics and safety policies

Compensation

Salary Range: $113,900 – $174,570 USD annually

This represents the average expected pay range for a qualified candidate.

Actual offered salary may depend on geography, experience, industry knowledge, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.

ENGIE complies with all federal, state, and local minimum wage laws. Actual salary offered may vary depending on geography, experience, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors. 

In addition to base pay, this position is eligible for a competitive bonus / incentive plan.

Your Talent Acquisition Partner can share more specific information regarding the benefits or the salary for the position based on the work location.

At ENGIE, we take your well-being seriously. Our comprehensive benefits package includes options for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, ESPP, generous paid time off including wellness days, holidays and leave programs. We also help you plan for retirement by offering a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a company match.  But that's not all – we're dedicated to the health and happiness of your entire family, offering supplemental benefits for full time employees that enhance emotional and physical well-being through all stages of life from family forming to caregiver benefits. Explore our benefits package to see how we can support you. Learn more.

Why ENGIE?

ENGIE North America isn’t just participating in the Zero-Carbon Transition, we’re leading it!  Join us as we develop energy that is renewable, efficient, and accessible to everyone.  

At ENGIE, our goal is to support, promote, and thrive on diversity, equity, and inclusion.  We do so for the benefit of our employees, customers, products and services, and community.  ENGIE is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, and we are firmly committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all employees.

We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

If you need assistance with this application or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at ENGIENA-ENGIEHR@engie.com. This email address is reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance and is not a means of inquiry regarding positions or application status.

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at any time.

The safety of our employees is our number one priority. All employees at ENGIE have both a duty and the authority to STOP WORK if unsafe acts are observed.