Principal Enterprise Architect

Provide architectural leadership to establish an enterprise-wide Agent Orchestration and Management Control Tower. The role will define and guide the implementation of core capabilities that enable safe, scalable and governed delivery of AI/automation agents across a federated operating model, while providing a single pane of glass for visibility, control, assurance and intervention.

Key Accountabilities

Architecture & Strategy

• Define the target architecture, reference patterns and roadmap for the Agent Control Tower, aligned to enterprise standards and mining operational risk expectations.
  
• Translate conceptual wiring into implementable architecture covering platforms, integrations, governance, and runtime controls.
  

Agent Lifecycle Governance

• Architect and standardize agent registration, approval, validation and policy binding.
  
• Establish permission‑based discovery and cataloging of agents and tools across business units.
  
• Ensure lifecycle governance is embedded into federated delivery pipelines.
  

Orchestration & Control

• Define orchestration patterns to enable controlled agent invocation, tool access and inter‑agent interaction.
  
• Establish control points (e.g. gateways/proxies, policies, contracts) to enforce enterprise guardrails.
  

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Key Deliverables

• Agent Control Tower Reference Architecture & Target State
  
• MVP Implementation Blueprint (services, integrations, environments)
  
• Agent Registration, Discovery & Observability Standards
  
• Assurance & Intervention Framework
  
• Federated Operating Model and Governance Artifacts (ADRs, guardrails, templates)
  

Required Experience & Skills

• 8–12+ years in Enterprise / Platform Architecture within complex, regulated environments (resources, mining, heavy industry preferred).
  
• Proven experience designing platform control planes, registries/catalogues, and governance frameworks.
  
• Strong background in integration architecture, observability, and security-by-design.
  
• Demonstrated success operating across federated delivery models.
  
• Executive‑level communication and decision‑making capability.
  

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Key Deliverables

• Agent Control Tower Reference Architecture & Target State
  
• MVP Implementation Blueprint (services, integrations, environments)
  
• Agent Registration, Discovery & Observability Standards
  
• Assurance & Intervention Framework
  
• Federated Operating Model and Governance Artifacts (ADRs, guardrails, templates)
  

Required Experience & Skills

• 8–12+ years in Enterprise / Platform Architecture within complex, regulated environments (resources, mining, heavy industry preferred).
  
• Proven experience designing platform control planes, registries/catalogues, and governance frameworks.
  
• Strong background in integration architecture, observability, and security-by-design.
  
• Demonstrated success operating across federated delivery models.
  
• Executive‑level communication and decision‑making capability.
  

observability , Assurance & Intervention

• Architect end‑to‑end severability for agents (telemetry, health, cost, performance).
  
• Define assurance workflows to detect deviation, drift or policy breaches.
  
• Design intervention mechanisms (e.g. throttling, blocking, kill‑switches) with full audibility.
  

Enterprise Integration

• Integrate the control tower with observability, security, ITSM, data and cost management platforms.
  
• Define canonical data and event models to enable consistent reporting and operational response.
  

Federated Operating Model

• Establish architecture governance, standards, and RACI for federated agent delivery teams.
  
• Coach teams, drive adoption of guardrails, and ensure architectural integrity at scale.
  

Requirements

Key Deliverables

• Agent Control Tower Reference Architecture & Target State
  
• MVP Implementation Blueprint (services, integrations, environments)
  
• Agent Registration, Discovery & Observability Standards
  
• Assurance & Intervention Framework
  
• Federated Operating Model and Governance Artifacts (ADRs, guardrails, templates)
  

Required Experience & Skills

• 8–12+ years in Enterprise / Platform Architecture within complex, regulated environments (resources, mining, heavy industry preferred).
  
• Proven experience designing platform control planes, registries/catalogues, and governance frameworks.
  
• Strong background in integration architecture, observability, and security-by-design.
  
• Demonstrated success operating across federated delivery models.
  
• Executive‑level communication and decision‑making capability.