-Use technology solutions to enable the organization's future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive the organization's targeted outcomes. Key Responsibilities 
-Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. 
-Design and lead the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements. 
-Provide consulting support to technical architects within projects to ensure the project is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture. 
-Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models. 
-Analyze the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation). 
-Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise architecture vision and technical architecture’s best practice guideline. 
-Participate in developing roadmaps for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by the solutions architecture). 
-Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture. 
-Document all solution design and analysis work. 
-Work closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised.