Enterprise Architect Senior Principal

Summary

The Senior Principal Enterprise Information Architect supports cross-functional business initiatives by leading and participating in information strategy development, information architecture design, and defining and organizing enterprise information through best practices in information modeling, taxonomy, and controlled vocabulary development. A cross functional and strategic team member, this role is responsible for unlocking the enterprise value through the development of information strategies and associated reference architectures. This role is an opportunity to apply your passion for data with the art of information design and enterprise architecture, underpinning our growth strategy and strategic business initiatives supporting innovation.  This position will report to the Director of Information Management and is recognized as an expert and advisor within the organization with in-depth expertise in their own discipline and a broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function.

What You'll Do

• Establish strong working relationships with business and technology leaders to influence and ensure IT and business alignment.
• Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Implement the enterprise information architecture framework and strategies.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into high level information architecture designs based on best practices.  
• Facilitate meetings with business subject matter experts, decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define goals and information requirements.
• Proactively identify and solve problems that impact the management and direction of the enterprise information architecture and associated domain strategies.  
• Develop and recommend new concepts, technologies, services, processes, or products to address future client and/or customer requirements within information, data, and analytics.
• Ensure concepts, business relationships, associations, and semantics are effectively represented to facilitate business communication.
• Analyze data to capture requirements clearly, completely, and correctly while representing them in a formal and visual way through concept models.  
• Guide IT teams in making architecture and solutions decisions
• Stay current with industry trends and introduce these best practices to the company.   
• Contribute to strategic planning by aligning technology decisions with business objectives.
• Promote best practices regarding integration frameworks, methodologies and tools.
• Drive the notion of reusable information assets and promote data as an asset.
• Identify and enforce necessary governance connections within and across domains.
• Participate in enterprise-wide domain governance groups.  
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify relevant data to be included in a domain’s information architecture.
• Collaborate on the development of enterprise-wide standards and best practices for development of domain level information architectures and associated strategies.
• Handles other duties and projects as assigned.

What It Takes To Succeed

• A minimum of 14 years professional experience in related field with a minimum of 5 years of experience in information architecture
• Advanced knowledge of common data implantation methods (e.g., logical and physical models, and common implementation technology platforms such as Hadoop, Greenplum, Teradata, Essbase, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of TOGAF and/or other Enterprise Architecture methods
• Understanding of IT data implantation methods (e.g., logical and physical models, implementation technologies, such as Hadoop, Greenplum, Teradata, Essbase, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge with cloud-based information repositories and solutions (e.g., Snowflake)
• Strong understanding of security frameworks and measures for data protection and privacy
• Advanced research and analytical skills
• Ability to develop enterprise information and data strategies
• Ability to communicate with leadership in written, presentation, or ad-hoc verbal formats
• Ability to work independently
• Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Experience

• A minimum of 14 years professional experience in related field with a minimum of 5 years of experience in information architecture.

• Certification in business and/or information architecture (TOGAF, DODAF, Business Architecture Guild, or other relevant certifications) preferred.

• Completion of a Bachelor's Degree in information systems design, computer science, data governance, data management, or a related field, plus an additional 36 graduate level college semester hours from an accredited institution in an area of specialty.  Master’s degree or higher in information systems design, computer science, data governance, data management, or a related field preferred.

Education