A great experience starts with you! Join our team to help create and develop the future of live entertainment and sports in Orange County! Once you've had a chance to explore our current open positions, apply to the ones you feel best suit you, as an applicant, you can always see your application status in your profile. Mission: To enrich the lives in our community through shared experiences, welcoming spaces, and responsible actions. Vision: We will be the social and entertainment center of Orange County – a place where the cultural kaleidoscope of the region converges and connects. Our vibrant, rich collection of experiences will celebrate the diversity of our community. Values: Be Safe | Do the Right Thing | Be Generous | Include Everyone | Make it Easy | Be Bold Job Title Principal Enterprise Architect Pay Details The annual base salary range for this position in California is $200,000 to $240,000 per year. The starting pay for the successful candidate depends on various job-related factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, education/training, internal value, peer equity, external market demands, and organizational considerations. The Enterprise Architect defines, governs, and evolves OCVIBE’s enterprise technology architecture. This role ensures applications, cloud services, data platforms, integrations, and core infrastructure are aligned with business objectives, scalable for district growth, and supportive of unified guest and tenant experience. As part of the IT organization, the Enterprise Architect partners with the Data Insights Group (DIG), the Digital Experience team, business operations teams, and external vendors/consultants to establish architecture standards, integration patterns, and implementation oversight across the campus. Responsibilities • Maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap, create reference architectures and standards, and evaluate emerging technologies to support long-term district goals • Act as the architectural authority for major programs and projects: review and approve solution designs, own technical RFP requirements, and publish decision records • Own the end-to-end lifecycle for an integration platform/iPaaS: define requirements, lead vendor evaluation, manage pilots, oversee implementation, plan rollouts, and maintain • Work closely with Cybersecurity to ensure architectures follow organizational security policies, support zero-trust principles, and include appropriate controls for identity, access, segmentation, and incident response readiness • Define enterprise integration patterns and API/connector standards, including error/retry semantics, credential and secrets management, ordering/transaction guarantees, observability, and SLAs • Partner with the Data Insights Group (DIG) to define enterprise data models, pipelines, governance, and data quality standards to enable analytics and real-time operational insight • Design secure integration boundaries between operational technologies (OT) and enterprise IT; embed architectural requirements into the district tech stack and ensure solutions are operable by Operations teams • Establish testing criteria, monitoring requirements, runbooks, escalation paths, and production acceptance gates for integrations and campus systems • Lead the Architectural Review Board (ARB), establish review criteria, guide solution teams through the architecture review process, and ensure technology decisions align with enterprise architecture standards • Direct and coordinate implementation work performed by vendors, consultants, or internal teams to ensure adherence to architecture, delivery quality, and effective knowledge transfer • Advise leadership on architecture tradeoffs and risk, mentor technical staff, and promote adoption of architecture practices across the organization Required Qualifications • 8–12+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture, or senior technical strategy roles • Proven experience leading enterprise integration strategy and overseeing selection and implementation of an integration platform/iPaaS • Deep knowledge of cloud, application, data, and integration architectures and the operationalization of integrations • Demonstrated experience with OT/IT integration in campus, venue, real-estate, hospitality, or industrial environments • Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills; experience running RFPs, defining technical SOWs, and ensuring knowledge transfer to Operations • Excellent written and verbal communication; experience producing architecture artifacts and decision records Preferred Qualifications • Systems thinking and enterprise architectural rigor • Experience with integration platform governance, connector design, observability, SLAs, and operational runbooks • Hands-on experience designing, building, and supporting integrations using an iPaaS platform such as Boomi preferred • Experience in data modeling and governance to enable analytics and real-time insight • Vendor/partner procurement and delivery management experience • Strong documentation and conceptual modeling skills (UML, ArchiMate or equivalent) • Leadership, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills Knowledge, Skills And Experience Education - Bachelor's Degree Experience Required – 8+ Years This position is on-site. Company OC Sports & Entertainment, LLC Our Commitment We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws. We are firm believers that diversity and inclusion among our team members are critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Thanks for your interest in becoming part of OCVIBE!