Job Summary
The Director, Enterprise Architect will lead and coordinate Corporate-wide Architecture function to define, communicate and maintain the technical and architecture technical strategy, policies, processes, standards, and solutions. Reviews, provides input, and approves the technical platform architecture and data architecture. Works with the technical leadership teams and PMO to define the platform technical architecture. Collaborate with IT leads to find opportunities to improve speed, reduce technical debt, improve flexibility, etc.

Responsibilities:

Technology Leadership:

• Architect and develop mission-critical, enterprise systems for highly visible projects.
• Influence business unit, group, and corporate leaders on change requirements to support business and IT strategies both existing and new technologies from design, documentation, testing, and implementation.
• Provide technical consulting on complex strategic initiatives in one or more phases of application development.
• Review and assess new and existing business and technical solutions for specific challenges or risks.

Architecture Processes:

• Implement and mature architectural practices to define and/or maintain business architecture models, designs of the information flow to business functions, and guide business enabling IT investment.
• Ensure IT investment decisions and program, projects, and planning are in alignment with Vertiv wide architecture standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
• Advise other professionals (project managers, architects, and business leaders) on tools, technologies, and methodologies related to the design and development of IT solutions.
• Make recommendations for continuous improvement of Vertiv wide policies and procedures.
• Lead the architecture review board for setting standards and proposing solutions. 
• Actively participate as a voting member on Vertiv governance council.

IT Strategy:

• Create and maintain IT investment strategies in alignment with critical business needs. 
• Collaborate with at both leadership and operational levels, to understand and synthesize strategic drivers for IT enablement. 

Talent Development: 

• Keep pace with current technology trends and incorporate that knowledge appropriately.
• Develop and mentor senior technical resources.
• Leads and manages a cross-functional team to drive selected major programs, primarily focused on cost-down initiatives but may also include delivery performance, inventory reduction, quality risk improvement, and large-scale value stream improvements.
• Play a key role in the process for defining the strategies that results in a portfolio of projects that are evaluated for investment.
• Drive implementation of standard tools to estimate and prioritize projects within the portfolio. This includes documenting key risks and developing a basic understanding of what is required to mitigate them.
• Develop an approach for establishing cost-down road maps for critical value streams across the organization. This may include implementing cost-down kaizen events to facilitate identifying cost-down opportunities and then flowing them through a process to effectively prioritize and select them.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree with 15 years’ related experience; Master’s Degree (preferred)
• Experience with one or more enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., Gartner, Zachman, TOGAF, and FEAF.)
• Familiarity with information systems management practices (e.g., ITIL, CMMI, etc.) preferred.
• Experience with Oracle eBusiness or similar ERP deployments.
• Experience with Siemens TeamCenter or similar PLM deployments.
• Experience with Oracle CRM, Siebel, or similar CRM deployments.
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies and methods.
• Experience with implementation of Cloud based application and/or integration.
• Experience with AI architecture with Snowflake datalake and GenAI / LLM solutions
• Review integration strategy and assess future integration requirements. 
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and heterogeneous processing environments.
• Ability to translate business needs into architecture requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to apply architectural disciplines to solve business problems (systems thinking). 
• Experience in modeling business and information attributes and their correlation to supporting technologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of architecture alternatives.
• Ability to develop flexible and scalable solutions to business problems.
• Ability to rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new and/or emerging technologies.
• Experience with data integration, data quality, master data management, and information architecture methods.

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities. 

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Diversity & Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

• Customer Focus

• Operational Excellence

• High-Performance Culture

• Innovation

• Financial Strength

OUR BEHAVIORS

• Own It

• Act With Urgency

• Foster a Customer-First Mindset

• Think Big and Execute

• Lead by Example

• Drive Continuous Improvement

• Learn and Seek Out Development

About Vertiv

Vertiv is a $6.8 billion global critical infrastructure and data center technology company. We ensure customers’ vital applications run continuously by bringing together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services. Our portfolio includes power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 20,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.

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