
Director, IT Enterprise Architecture
Coeur Mining, Chicago, IL, United States
Job Overview
About Coeur Mining: We are a U.S.-based, well-diversified, growing precious metals producer with seven wholly-owned operations. This description is provided for context about the role.
Job Summary
The Director, IT Enterprise Architecture is accountable for establishing and leading the company’s enterprise-wide technology governance and architectural standards framework. Reporting directly to the Vice President of IT & Cybersecurity, this role ensures that technology decisions across corporate and site environments align with approved IT strategy, security standards, and long-term enterprise objectives. The Director operates horizontally across all IT domains and business functions, providing structured oversight of technology intake, architectural review, investment alignment, and acquisition integration planning.
Responsibilities
- Technology Governance & Decision Rights
- Design, implement, and mature the enterprise IT governance framework, including intake, review, approval, and oversight mechanisms.
- Establish and chair the Technology Review Committee and Architecture Review Board.
- Define and enforce clear decision rights for technology selection, procurement, and implementation across departments.
- Partner with Supply Chain and Finance to define and operationalize what constitutes formal IT approval.
- Ensure new technology initiatives align with cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, and compliance standards before investment approval.
- Develop and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference models across infrastructure, applications, data, and cloud domains.
- Create and maintain multi-year enterprise technology roadmaps aligned to business capability priorities.
- Lead application and platform rationalization efforts to reduce duplication and complexity.
- Define architectural guardrails that enable innovation while maintaining operational reliability and security.
Acquisition & Integration Strategy
- Develop target-state architecture models to guide post-acquisition technology integration.
- Identify system redundancies and develop sequencing plans for consolidation or coexistence.
- Ensure integration decisions align with enterprise standards and long-term cost, risk, and operational objectives.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Influence
- Partner with Directors of Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Applications, and Site IT to ensure consistent execution of architectural standards.
- Engage business leaders early in initiative planning to ensure collaboration and alignment with governance requirements.
- Operate with delegated authority from the VP of IT & Cybersecurity to require architectural review prior to material technology investments.
Architecture Practice Development
- Establish and mature the enterprise architecture function, including defining future capability and resource requirements.
- Develop performance metrics to measure governance effectiveness, technology standardization, and portfolio rationalization.
- Create documentation standards, reference libraries, and knowledge-sharing mechanisms across IT domains.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum 12–15 years of progressive IT leadership experience, including enterprise architecture or governance responsibilities.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing IT governance frameworks in complex, multi-site environments.
- Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, or enterprise integration initiatives strongly preferred.
- Experience with large-scale ERP migrations preferred
- Experience in industrial, mining, manufacturing, or asset-intensive environments preferred.
- Spanish proficiency a plus, but not required.
Work Conditions
- 10-25% travel
- Overtime hours as required
The salary range offered for this role is USD $170k - $180k USD range. The salary range is a good-faith estimate. The salary offer to the successful candidate will be based on job-related education, training, and/or experience. The salary offer will not be based on a candidate’s salary history at other jobs, and by law, Coeur Mining will not seek information about salary history, and candidates should not share such information with Coeur Mining. Coeur Mining provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits, health benefits, paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Coeur Mining also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
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