Daniel Scherr

Principal Enterprise Architect 30+ Years of Cross-Industry Experience Infrastructure & Operations AI Strategy Servant Leader

Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States

About

I’m a technology strategist with over three decades of experience architecting enterprise solutions across diverse industries. My foundation in infrastructure and operations has evolved to embrace emerging technologies, including Agentic and Generative AI—tools I now leverage to drive intelligent automation, scalability, and innovation. As a servant-style leader, I focus on empowering teams and enabling business outcomes through thoughtful architecture. I thrive on aligning technology with strategic goals, fostering collaboration across silos, and guiding organizations through complex transformation with clarity and purpose. Whether modernizing legacy ecosystems or shaping future-ready platforms, I lead with humility, precision, and a relentless commitment to value creation.

Experience

  • Principal Enterprise Architect at Wells Fargo
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    -Spearheaded architecture initiatives bridging product and tech teams, driving collaboration and strategic alignment. -Delivered scalable modeling pipelines, AI services, and visualization tools to boost decision-making and innovation. -Re-engineered meta-models and governance to support compliance, agility, and strategic ArchiMate planning. -Influenced leadership and championed tools, embedding architecture across lifecycles and increasing impact. -Cleared multi-year backlogs, enabling compliance, auditability, observability, and OKR achievement. -Leveraged architecture repository to enhance annual budget planning. -Currently, the bridging architect for CCIBT and DTI lines of business. -Active in digitizing architecture, enabling a Digital Twin and the transformation to insight delivery architecture.

  • Principal Enterprise Architect at Random Bit LLC
    May 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Senior Enterprise Architect at Wells Fargo
    Dec 2022 - May 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Senior Enterprise Architect at JELD-WEN, Inc.
    Nov 2019 - Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    -Founded EA practice, operationalizing governance, standards, and Agile architecture for strategic alignment. -Directed hybrid and cloud-first strategy, reducing debt and improving scalability and costefficiency. -Enabled enterprise capabilities via domain models, BI tools, and reference architectures. -Chaired ARB and AWG, fostering collaboration and architectural compliance. -Advised leadership, shaped roadmaps, and rationalized domains for performance and interoperability. -Architected endpoint and identity platforms, enhancing security, mobility, and continuity.

  • AVP, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Service Delivery at LPL Financial
    Oct 2013 - Sep 2019 · 6 yrs

    -Architected hybrid and cloud-native solutions on Azure and AWS to improve scalability and performance. -Engineered big data platforms and integrated infrastructure for throughput and observability. -Executed cloud migrations leveraging DevOps, enhanced security integration and design API approach. -Delivered reference architectures, roadmaps, and complex ecosystems aligned to strategic goals. -Oversaw $100M in initiatives, contributed to governance, and automated processes and workflows.