Architect V Enterprise Information

JOB SUMMARY

This position is responsible for the leadership analysis and design of the Enterprise Information Architecture for PODS supporting our extraordinary company growth projections and digital experiences vision. Plays an integral role in building a holistic view and roadmap of the Companys technology strategy processes and information technology roadmap. Partners with both business and technology groups to ensure that the proposed technical solutions not only align with the Companys overall objectives but also ensure that both groups enable and drive each other to meet the needs of the Companys mission and vision. This position will require you to deliver IA blueprints and designs in line with functional IA roadmaps. A core part of the role will also be to evangelize Information Architecture and the value and impact of good Information Architecture design and governance to both IT and business teams.

The candidate must be recognized as an expert in Enterprise Information Architecture with a demonstrated track record of delivering the optimal design of data and information architectures to support business objectives. The candidate will possess the background skills and experience to independently initiate and coordinate teams in complex technology evaluations proofs of concept and prototyping exercises. The candidate will also show demonstrated success in designing and documenting data flows across the estate designing data models for analytics/reporting assessing the feasibility of data models working with business data governance groups in establishing data standards (master reference structure) and working with solution architects on data integration and service architectures.

The candidate will have at least 12 years of experience working for a company or governmental agency with at least 300 employees (if private sector) or 500 employees (if governmental agency).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determine corresponding architectural designs and change requirements to drive the organizations targeted business outcomes.
• Establish and thoroughly document strategic standards for enterprise application architecture across diverse platforms and internal engineering and development teams.
• Ability to partner and collaborate across both IT and business teams to inform on the best Information Architecture
• Oversee mapping of enterprise information architecture models to package application models to determine impact or assess suitability of vendor solutions to enterprise information architecture requirements.
• Ensures the data and the information needs of the business are realized through an intentional information architecture.
• Document the infrastructure architecture environment and procedures to ensure the infrastructure remains cost effective efficient and of high quality.
• Blueprint Data Architecture including multi-year transitions and recommendations to drive transformation and modernization
• Re-Engineers and maintains an enterprise-wide view of the data across all business systems. Analyzes information requirements specified by the user community and designs the required data structures to support those requirements.
• Champions efforts to improve business performance through enterprise information solutions and capabilities such as master data management (MDM) metadata management analytics content management data integration and related information management or information infrastructure components.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS: Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor degree in computer science system analysis or a related study.

Minimum of 12 years of enterprise level in one or more of the following IT disciplines: data architecture database design business intelligence.

7 years experience as a Data Architect

An Enterprise Architecture framework qualification such as TOGAF or ZF is plus.

Expert knowledge and hands-on experience with MDM BI data warehouse design and implementation techniques

Knowledge of industry standard middleware ETL master data hub and service oriented architecture design and delivery solutions

Eexperience of working with a range of BI & analytics architectures: including traditional warehousing Distributed computing NoSQL virtualization or data streaming

Experience of defining Information Architectures for cloud-based solutions and technologies such as Azure Data Factory for ETL Databricks Azure Data Lake Snowflake Azure SQL Cassandra & Cosmos.

An understanding of the use and hands-on experience with ERWin for application (OLTP) and data warehouse (OLAP) data models and implementation or industry standard modelling tool

An understanding of domain modelling business process data flows business information modelling entity flows diagrams common information models Master Data Management

Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Stack

Experience with Tableau Power BI and Snowflake

Knowledge of and hands-on experience of implementing data management capabilities including Master and Reference Data Management Data Quality Management Metadata Management and Data Governance.

Required Experience:

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