Data & Information Architect

Overview

The Principal Information and Data Architect will provide leadership in architectural planning and solution delivery across multiple domains/ solution areas, contributing to the future success of the business through innovations in technology.

A person in this role will be responsible for leading opportunity identification and analysis, problem definition, and overseeing the development and deployment of advanced information and data design practices within the Enterprise Architecture organization.

This role, along with business leadership and leaders within Data and Analytics Engineering will lead and contribute to the definition of an overarching data strategy and architecture that will align investments with the highest impact areas, while producing a suite of complementary models, tools, and technologies

 
Responsibilities

• Designs and develops IT architecture (integrated process, applications, data and technology) solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards.
  
• Analyzes needs and requirements of existing and proposed products/services, applications, and service offerings, and develops technical, structural, and organizational specifications.
  
• Assesses the compatibility and integration of products/services proposed as standards in order to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.
  
• May create standards and/or do modeling to monitor and enhance capacity and performance.
  
• Lead clear definition of information and data across the organization and help clarify ownership and stewardship
  
• Partner with Application, Data and Analytics Engineering leadership to establish an information architecture plan across multiple solution areas
  
• Own information design through conceptual data models and align and review logical data models, API definitions and analytical data products for consistency and completeness.
  
• Drive Information Interaction Framework for collaborating/sharing information across business capabilities and functions
  
• Analyze and influence end-to-end data and integration design for key business domains
  
• Architect and design solutions for data quality, reliability and data governance
  
• Embrace and influence technology platform thinking and drive architecture principles of security, scale, uptime and reliability
  
• Contribute to and implement the architecture strategy for enterprise information and data management
  
• Partner with business and enterprise data leaders to provide technical advice on data governance, data quality and stewardship
  
• Guide and mentor engineering teams to raise collective technical expertise
  
• Demonstrate a strong bias for architecture principles balanced with tactical timelines, cost and risks
  
• Contribute to architecture guiding principles, development standards, training and hiring
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Business Information Management
  
• 6 years providing design leadership to technical, business & cross-functional teams
  
• 8 years in hands-on experience in data analysis, modeling, data engineering, or analytics
  
• Strong understanding of data and information architecture, including experience with Big Data, Relational databases, streaming and batch data processing
  
• Strong experience building end-to-end data view with focus on integration
  
• A solid understanding and experience with data APIs, data warehousing, reporting and analytics platforms
  
• Experience implementing data management solutions for non-technical data stewards and business owners
  
• Familiarity with enterprise cloud/virtual architectures like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Open Stack, JIE, etc.
  
• Demonstrated track record of leading within complex organizations requiring strong influence management skills - ability to work cooperatively at all levels in matrix environment
  
• Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills with ability to facilitate technology strategy, requirements and architecture conversations with all stakeholders (management, business users, and technology resources)