Penn State Job Catalog

The IT Enterprise Architect Manager provides university-wide leadership for the strategic direction and evolution of the University's technology environment; establishes the enterprise perspective necessary to align technology capabilities with institutional priorities, promote sustainable and integrated technology investments, and support effective decision-making across a complex and decentralized organization; serves as a senior adviser to IT and university leadership and provides direction on matters that have broad institutional impact; advances the University's ability to realize and demonstrate value from significant technology investments by establishing an enterprise approach to evaluating outcomes, benefits, and institutional impact; operates across organizational and technology boundaries, connecting strategy, architecture, investment, and institutional priorities to support long-term effectiveness and technology transformation.

• Lead the University's enterprise architecture practice, establishing its strategy, operating model, services, priorities, and continuous improvement activities
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, patterns, reference architectures, technology guidelines, and decision frameworks that guide technology strategy and investment across the University
• Establish architecture governance and review processes to evaluate technology solutions and investments for strategic alignment, interoperability, sustainability, security, compliance, risk, and institutional impact
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture roadmaps, capability maps, architectural decisions, and other resources that support enterprise planning and technology decision-making
• Translate institutional priorities into enterprise technology strategies, architectural direction, capability roadmaps, and investment considerations
• Serve as a strategic adviser to senior IT and university leaders on technology strategy, modernization, architecture, emerging technologies, technology risk, and long-term capability planning
• Partner with IT Strategic Partners, service owners, technology leaders, and business stakeholders to align technology direction with institutional priorities and enterprise architecture standards
• Establish and lead the University's value realization capability, including its governance, methodologies, measurement practices, and operating framework
• Develop and implement frameworks to evaluate significant technology investments based on expected outcomes, institutional impact, benefits, costs, risks, and strategic alignment
• Partner with business, finance, and technology leaders to define, measure, and validate outcomes and benefits associated with significant technology investments
• Integrate value realization practices into technology investment planning, governance, prioritization, and funding processes
• Define and evolve the portfolio of enterprise architecture services, guidance, and resources to promote enterprise-wide alignment, standardization, efficiency, and informed technology decisions
• Lead cross-functional architecture initiatives spanning applications, infrastructure, data, integration, business processes, security, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies
• Provide strategic direction for artificial intelligence, data, and process architecture initiatives, including responsible AI practices, data governance, privacy, institutional data sharing, and process modernization
• Monitor emerging technologies, industry practices, and higher education technology trends and assess their implications for the University's technology strategy and architecture
• Establish performance measures and evaluate the effectiveness, adoption, and institutional impact of enterprise architecture and value realization services
• Provide leadership, direction, and professional development for staff within the enterprise architecture and value realization functions

Level:

– Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates proficient ability in work design, project management, financial planning and development of goals for accomplishing unit assignments. Reviews and guides work to ensure conformity to policy and effective approaches. Evaluates employee performance and recommend development opportunities. Demonstrates ability to coach employees. Presents and communicates key university indicatives and connects it to unit contributions. Provides broad guidelines. Develops, evaluates, enhances, and/or implements quality improvement practices. Recommends innovative solutions.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees a team (typically 4 or more; no fewer than 2) full
– time direct reports of individual contributors and/or first level supervisors.

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks department/area budget
– May plan, forecast, and/or assist in developing budgets
– May have final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters varied and complex problems
– Helps to develop creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature but within limited scope
– Modifies, adapts, or refines guidelines if necessary to resolve issues or problems

Independence of Action:

– Works independently on complex or strategic assignments
– Uses existing practices and advanced working knowledge to determine appropriate work methods for the team
– Reviews completed work of others for conformity to policy, and effectiveness of approach
– Delegates advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Prepares written and/or verbal presentations or proposals on complex issues and delivers to a broad variety of audiences
– Communicates key university initiatives and how unit’s work contributes to their achievement
– Presents ideas, concepts and instructions in a clear manner, and uses persuasion and negotiation to build consensus and cooperation
– Establishes and maintains networks to facilitate successful communication among units

• Comp Grade – 16
• Minimum – $130,596.00
• MidPoint – $166,536.00
• Maximum – $202,464.00