Lead and provide thought leadership in all areas of data and information management, including master and reference data management, data modeling, data governance, data quality, data standardization, and metadata management.
Lead and/or facilitate enterprise information and data strategy development to achieve enterprise goals and objectives
Actively manage, communicate, and market the enterprise information architecture strategy and techniques via creation and maintenance of architecture blueprints, roadmaps, and executive presentations
Promote and support elimination of data redundancy, fragmentation, and unnecessary movement of data through the establishment and enforcement of data system of record (SOR), source of truth (SOT), source of origin (SOO).
Continuously improve and mature information and data architecture practice and processes
Lead the development and application of information policies, principles, standards, patterns, and governance processes for information, data, and metadata to achieve an integrated definition of data for enterprise information, and to ensure the accuracy, validity, and reusability of metadata.
Maintain awareness, research, drive, and lead adoption of emerging IT trends, disruptions, and practices relevant to enterprise information and data architecture
Engage leadership to identify business and technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enable and drive business outcomes
Lead the analysis of the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommend solutions for improvement
Develop, maintain, and evolve the architecture and solution intent (current state, transition state, and future state) across domains
Assist in maintaining the repository of current state, transition state, and future state information architecture deliverables
Lead and facilitate Data Architecture community of practice meetings and represent the information and data architecture domain at the Architecture Review Board.
Work closely with the product portfolio owners and product managers to drive a robust information and data architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product and solution lifecycle
Coach, mentor, and collaborate with technical subject matter experts and architecture peers to develop architecture that enables and drive new business capabilities and operating models
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related area of study, or equivalent combination of education and/or relevant work experience; HS diploma or GED is required
10 years of related work experience in Business Analysis, System Design and Development, Systems Engineering, or technical architecture; to include 5 years direct experience working within an Architect role
Must be eligible to work in the United States without need for work visa or residency sponsorship
Significant experience defining and standardizing design and architecture patterns for assigned domain
Advanced ability to communicate and present effectively at multiple levels of the organization
Ability to define, plan, initiate and lead architecture and teams for assigned area and scope
Demonstrate wide understanding of multiple domain areas, with ability to apply practical and pragmatic solutions
Self-learner, ability to work independently and direct the learning and work of others
Experience handling all of solution types, ranging from organization and process to implementing new system builds, legacy enhancements, commercial-off-the-shelf packages, and Cloud solutions
Experience as a senior level architect working on significant enterprise initiatives
Previous experience with data modeling, data lineage, data quality, data profiling, and metadata management tools (ER/Studio, XMLSpy, InfoSphere Data Architect, Informatica, etc.)
Working knowledge of transactional (OLTP), reporting and analytics (OLAP), business event, messaging, and API contract design best practices and patterns
Previous experience with enterprise architecture tool and knowledge repository such as Planview CTM / Enterprise Architect, Sparx, Software AG, etc.