Cross-Functional Coordination (15%)

• Coordinate with the Head of AI and T4P Engineering on the architecture and integration boundaries between AI and engineering initiatives and the enterprise application portfolio.
• Partner with the Enterprise Applications leadership team to align architecture decisions with portfolio priorities and roadmaps.
• Coordinate with the data team, including its Director of Analytics, Architecture and Engineering, on data architecture and integration boundaries across the portfolio.
• Coordinate with GIS and Infrastructure on shared platform boundaries, including Azure, to clarify roles and responsibilities across teams.
• Work with the Director, AI Platforms and Digital Workplace on the boundaries between the digital workplace stack and the enterprise application portfolio.

Governance and Documentation (15%)

• Maintain documentation of architecture decisions, integration patterns, and technical standards.
• Ensure architecture and integration work aligns with organizational policies, data privacy requirements, and the IRC’s governance frameworks.
• Surface architecture risk and technical debt plainly, and bring open questions forward rather than presenting closed plans.
• Establish enterprise architecture into the organization's operations and governance: define architecture principles, set up a review process and decision rights for architecture choices, and embed those into how solutions are proposed, funded, and approved across the portfolio.

Required Experience and Skills

Strategy and Leadership

• 8+ years of experience in IT, enterprise applications, or architecture roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership position managing a team.
• Experience setting architecture direction and technical standards in an enterprise environment.
• Ability to translate organizational needs into clear integration patterns and architecture decisions.
• Track record of managing budgets for technology work.

Architecture and Integration

• Deep working knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, API management, and integration tooling across a multi-platform environment.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise platforms such as ERP (D365 F&O), HCM (Workday), ITSM (ServiceNow), and collaboration platforms (M365, Box).
• Experience owning technical standards and holding delivery teams accountable to them.
• Comfort assessing build-versus-configure tradeoffs and steering work away from unnecessary custom development.
• Demonstrated experience establishing enterprise architecture governance: defining architecture principles, standing up an architecture review process, and embedding architecture decision rights into how an organization prioritizes and funds technology work.

Custom Development and Delivery

• Hands-on background in application development and integration delivery. This role is expected to work hands-on at the start, designing integrations, reviewing code, and troubleshooting failures directly, and to shift toward oversight as the team grows.
• Experience leading custom application and web teams (Drupal experience a plus).

Communication

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to explain architecture decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable surfacing open questions and risk plainly.

Preferred

• Experience in a nonprofit, international development, or humanitarian sector IT environment.
• Experience coordinating architecture boundaries across infrastructure and applications teams.
• Experience with API management platforms (e.g., Azure APIM, Apigee).
• Experience with event-driven and messaging architectures (e.g., Azure Service Bus, Kafka).
• Familiarity with cloud-native integration tooling (e.g., Azure Functions, Logic Apps, iPaaS solutions).
• Experience building on serverless and microservices patterns, not only monolithic architectures.

Organization

The following positions report into this role:

• Integration and Custom Apps Team Lead
• Drupal Team (day-to-day led by the Drupal manager)
• Azure Platform (Application Hosting) Engineers

Working Environment

• This role is remote, with the possibility of in-person work depending on location. Stakeholders are located across multiple time zones (GMT-8 to GMT+3), which may require occasional early or late meetings.
• This role is open to candidates located and with the right to work in the United States of America, United Kingdom, and Kenya.

Compensation

• USA: ($158,492 - $184,536 annually). Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, internal equity, and budget. Exact offers are calibrated by work location, individual candidate experience and skills relative to the defined job requirements.
• UK: (£77,499 - £93,814 annually). Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, internal equity, and budget. Exact offers are calibrated by work location, individual candidate experience and skills relative to the defined job requirements.

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.

Equal Opportunity Employer

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.