Principal Analyst, Enterprise Architecture

🔥 18 hours ago

🏛️ District of Columbia, Illinois, +5 more states – Remote

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💵 $141k - $263k / year

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Forrester

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🏢 Enterprise

Consulting • Marketing • Enterprise

Forrester is a global research and advisory firm that provides subscription research, consulting, and events to help executives and organizations make strategic technology, marketing, and customer-experience decisions. It produces proprietary research (including The Forrester Wave™), large-scale surveys, tailored advisory services, and tools like Forrester Decisions and Forrester AI to embed insights into client workflows. Forrester serves enterprise clients across industries and delivers strategy, benchmarking, and execution support to technology, marketing, and customer-experience leaders.

📋 Description

• Lead the Enterprise Solutions Architecture practice area across Forrester research teams, Sales, and Product • Develop a complete research portfolio that drives customer delight and revenue • Develop a deep understanding of client needs and technology executive success factors • Establish an industry presence as an influential speaker and thinker • Build relationships with sector journalists and participate in vendor briefings and press inquiries • Conduct primary research on architecture strategy, solutions architecture, technology platforms, roadmaps, governance, risk management, financial and cost optimization, and performance management • Analyze IT decision-maker challenges and preferences alongside employee preferences and expectations • Create approximately 8 to 12 high-quality research projects per year, including reports, tools, webinars, videos, blogs, podcasts, infographics, and other intellectual property • Build visibility for research and contribute to Forrester client communities • Lead Forrester Waves and Landscape reporting for the practice and adjacent areas • Consult with clients through inquiry, guidance, advisory, and consulting engagements • Present at Forrester-sponsored and industry events and deliver client webinars • Co-lead the global Forrester Enterprise Architecture forum and award program • Contribute to the State of Modern Technology Operations survey • Support business development and prospect conversations • Foster cross-team collaboration, mentorship, integrity, and positive pursuits • Potentially grow into the VP Principal Analyst role

🎯 Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in a mix of director-level-and-above practitioner, enterprise architect, principal sales engineer, principal solutions architect, managing consultant, Director/Manager of Sales Engineering, or research analyst roles • Demonstrated ability to advise senior management and C-level clients • Superior client-facing communication, listening, critical thinking, and collaboration skills • Solid technical enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, and technology experience as a leader, with engineering and architecture backgrounds in key platforms • Experience with platforms such as Cloud, Infrastructure, AI, Operating Systems, Security, and additional technology platforms • Practitioner experience in Financial Services, Technology Services, or another industry vertical preferred • Ability to craft high-level architecture to illustrate complex topics and research coverage • Ability to leverage AI topics, technologies, tools, and solutions architecture in enterprise architecture practice • Ability to engage technology leaders across Enterprise Architecture, IT Delivery, and Operations • Strong knowledge of issues and challenges facing technology executives and leaders • Expertise in implications of current and emerging technology markets, economics, labor, and econometrics • Ability to distill complex, disparate ideas into simple, provocative concepts • Willingness to take a stand on outcomes with clients, vendors, press, and competition • Strong record of academic achievement • Superior analytical, writing, editing, and presentation skills • Ability to travel 30% of the time or more

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus target: 15% for employees based in Washington State, subject to individual and company performance and eligibility criteria • Benefits information provided at https://forresterbenefits.com/ • Tools, support, and runway for career development • Learning and professional development opportunities • Reasonable accommodation support • Equal employment opportunity and inclusive recruitment process