Gartner Expert

Austin Steinmetz

Principal Analyst

Austin Steinmetz is an analyst on Gartner's Enterprise Architecture Team. He focuses on enterprise architecture tools, EA governance, building effective EA practices, communicating the value of EA, and augmenting business architecture with financial modeling and analysis. Austin is lead author of the 2025 Enterprise Architecture Tools Magic Quadrant, and has recently contributed to research on advanced business architecture, minimum viable architecture, and EA practice maturity measurement.

Previous experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Austin has worked as an architect in the insurance, healthcare, and retail industries.

While at CVS Health, Austin was primarily a solution architect, working in the provider and Medicaid domains. Austin guided data integration and migration efforts, master billing consolidation, and provider portal modernization.

While at Aetna, Austin served as a multidisciplinary architect, rotating through several domain areas including: technology innovation, security architecture, business architecture, and solution architecture.

Professional background

Aetna, Multidisciplinary Architect, 2 years

CVS Health, Solution Architect, 4 years

Lowe's , Business Analyst, 1 years

Areas of coverage

  • Future-State Architecture Realization

  • Future-State Architecture Design

  • Enterprise Architecture Operating Model

Education

B.S., Information Science and Technology, Pennsylvania State University

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

01

EA Tools, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools, EA Tool selection process, vendor selection

02

How to Start or Restart an EA Practice, Best tips to modernize an EA practice, what to avoid while starting an EA Practice

03

Enterprise Architecture Value, Value Proposition, Communicating EA Value

04

IT Score for Enterprise Architecture, EA Maturity, How mature is my EA organization, Enterprise Architecture Maturity assessment

05

Enterprise Architecture Operating Model, Organization Design, How to staff my team, what EA roles exist

Latest research and insights

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Design Consumable Business Architecture for Smarter Technology Investments

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Infographic: Benchmark Data From the IT Score for Enterprise Architecture (2025)

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5 Emerging Technologies and Practices for EA Consideration, 2025

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