Director, Enterprise Architecture

Role Overview

• Our Company’s Digital Strategy is founded on the need for efficient, reusable, and user-friendly technology solutions
• Provide strategic technology decisions that link investments and achieved business outcomes
• Offer strategic technology decision-making that connects investments and achieved business results
• Be a crucial supporting partner with the business to help them gain concrete business value through our company’s investments in digital
• Partner and support CDO (Chief Data Office) teams to declare Enterprise Master and Reference data standards as well as jointly develop information governance standards and best practices
• Interact with divisional Information Architects as well as Senior Divisional IT leaders on a regular basis and clearly communicate and demonstrate the value of Enterprise Architecture and Information Architecture
• Contribute to the Enterprise Information Architecture frameworks and enterprise data strategy
• Supply thought leadership in support of the company’s initiatives in data value capture and acceleration
• Work closely with the company’s CDO and divisional teams to supply architectural leadership and strategic direction
• Ensure the information and data strategy that is developed enables the capabilities needed to deliver business value to our customers
• Understand the mandatory information management requirements of the enterprise and focus on developing the information architecture across relevant business areas such as (R&D, manufacturing, finance, marketing/sales, and supporting global functions)

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is required
• Minimum of 10 years of related experience
• Establish Information Architecture (IA) standards, frameworks and practices
• Establish strong working relationships with business and technology leaders to influence and implement the EIM framework and strategy and establish an enterprise-wide information architecture program
• Analyze the data landscape across the enterprise and assess health and risks of the current state
• Deliver a strategy that evolves the current state toward one where enterprise data supports the company’s transformation goals
• Grow the capabilities of an enterprise data marketplace, including data cataloguing, data discovery and data governance
• Mature the company’s delivery of information assets, leveraging product management practices to offer “Data Products”
• Contribute to a master data management strategy, including entity definition and ongoing sustainment
• Collaborate with information security, business, and IT stakeholders to implement an information access policy and rules of use
• Stay current with EIM technology trends and introduce these best practices to the company
• Drive the notion of reusable Data Assets, manage data as an asset
• Discover, recommend, and implement enhancements to the enterprise Data Management architecture
• Support the creation of a common and well managed set of EA practices, which includes architecture models, architecture governance processes, architecture methods and templates, architecture communities and training, and much more
• Create EA deliverables and artifacts relevant for accountable architecture domain(s)
• Prepare and deliver executive level briefings and communicate complex topics effectively to an executive audience

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits, including 401(k)
• paid holidays
• vacation
• compassionate and sick days